Culture and Context in World Politics
Culture and Context in World Politics by Stephanie Lawson
English | Sep. 5, 2006 | ISBN: 023000766X | 276 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | Sep. 5, 2006 | ISBN: 023000766X | 276 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
This wide-ranging, historically informed study examines the career of the culture concept and related notions of context in comparative and international politics, tracing connections through the disciplines of anthropology and history as well as through issues in nationalism and democracy.
This book is the result of many years of reflection on the role played by the culture concept in both political theory and practice. My attention was initially drawn to how the concept and cognates such as ‘tradition’ were used in a political context during PhD research in the early 1980s on the fate of democracy in Fiji – a small island country in the Southwest Pacific which had not attracted much interest from comparative political scientists or international relations specialists, and even less from political philosophers. Most of the existing literature came out of the disciplines of history and anthropology, and so began a long-term interest in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of politics.