Global encounters

"In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Hahm Chaihark and Daniel A. Bell refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception has been formulated, reproduced, and utilized throughout history. By bringing together a collection of articles authored by experts in a variety of academic disciplines, Hahm and Bell scrutinize how the East Asian emphasis on affective relations manifests itself in various real-life settings such as the family, the economy, politics, and the legal system. This volume will provide readers with a broader perspective on and a deeper appreciation for the pervasive nature of affective relations in East Asia."--BOOK JACKET.

"Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics to turn toward a multiplicity - largely excluded from globally dominant discourses of community, subjectivity, power, and prosperity - constituted by otherness, radical alterity, or subordination to the newly reconsolidated West. The book offers a diverse range of essays that reexamine and open the boundaries of political and cultural modernity's historical domain; that look at how the racialized and gendered and cultured subject visualizes the social from elsewhere; that critique postcolonial theory's claim to celebrate diversity; and that complicate the notion of postcolonial politics within settler societies that continue to practice exile of the indigenous." "Postcolonialism and Political Theory is an ideal book for graduate and advanced undergraduate level study and for those working both disciplinarily and interdisciplinarily, both inside and outside academia."