{"title":"Researching Hindu Nationalism as a Paradigm for Multidisciplinary Political Science <b>Hindutva as Political Monotheism</b> , by Anustup Basu, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020, 296 pp., $27.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-478-01094-4. <b>Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy</b> , by Christophe Jaffrelot, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019, 656 pp., $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-691-20680-6. <b>Hindu Nationalism in India</b> , by Tanika Sarkar, …","authors":"Richard Bownas","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2023.2273053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2273053","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Christophe Jaffrelot, The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996).2 Jaffrelot, Modi’s India, 157.3 Ibid., 311.4 Ibid., 71.5 Ibid., 253–308.6 Ibid., 170–82.7 Ibid., 399.8 Ibid., 240.9 Ibid., 453.10 Ibid., 99.11 Ibid., 98.12 Ibid., 114–56.13 Tariq Thachil, Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India (London: Cambridge University Press, 2014).14 Basu, Hindutva, 163.15 Ibid., 270.16 See Arkotong Longkumer, The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020) for a detailed account of similar processes of cooptation and flexibility by the RSS / BJP in Northeastern India.17 Basu, Hindutva, 259.18 Ibid., 256.19 Ibid., 242.20 See Jairus Banaji, ed., Fascism: Essays on Europe and India (New Delhi: Three Essays Collective, 2016).21 Basu, Hindutva, 15122 Ibid., 4.23 Ibid., 33.24 Ibid., 158.25 Ibid., 158.26 Ibid., 163.27 Ibid., 162.28 Basu also draws on Spivak’s concept of “parabasis” (10), referring to the chorus in Greek tragedy as a metaphor for an order imposed on ambiguous and multiple discourses.29 Vijayan, Gender and Hindu Nationalism, 61.30 Ibid., 72.31 Ibid., 80.32 He is building on Partha Chatterjee’s famous argument in The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993).33 Vijayan, Gender and Hindu Nationalism, 113–4.34 Ibid., 143.35 Ibid., 157.36 Ibid., 182.37 Ibid., 176.38 Ibid., 207.39 Ibid., 173–5.40 An attempt that seems to have finally succeeded under Modi’s government with a Supreme Court decision in 2019 to hand the land over to a Hindu trust.41 Vijayan, Gender and Hindu Nationalism, 99.42 Sarkar, Hindu Nationalism, 164.43 Ibid., 199.44 Sarkar explores the politics of this seminal novel in detail showing how it shifts blame for the Bengal famine of 1770 to Muslim elites, rather than the British administration, setting a pattern for future Hindutva historiography.45 Sarkar, Hindu Nationalism, 229.46 Ibid., 93.47 For example, the work of Robin Horton, including Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science (London: Cambridge University Press, 1993).48 Sumantra Bose, Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of the Secular State (London: Cambridge University Press, 2018), covers mainly the superstructural elements of religious politics and has less content on social movements or grassroots sociology of religion.49 For example, Wael B Hallaq, The Impossible State: Islam, Politics and Modernity’s Moral Predicament (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).50 But see a very recent volume, which came out after this review was already written: Aravindan Neelakandan, Hindutva: Origin, Evolution and Future (Noida, Uttar Pradesh: BlueInk Press, 2022). This is a comprehensive emic defense of Hindutva addressed to a “Western” or “secular” audience.51","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":"47 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136347325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Which Side Are You On” The 2023 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition: A Timeline","authors":"Nancy Love","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2023.2273052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2273052","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractOn July 27, 2023, the Coordinating Council of the Caucus for a Critical Political Science unanimously decided to honor a request from UNITE HERE Local 11 and striking hotel workers in Los Angeles, California. Critical Political Science cancelled all participation – events, meetings, and panels – at the 2023 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition, moved its events and meetings online using independent platforms, demanded APSA refund conference registration and hotel reservation fees, and contributed to the strike fund. This essay reconstructs those events from my perspective as Chair of the Caucus for a Critical Political Science and documents a critical juncture for American political scientists.Keywords: Critical political scienceAPSA Annual Meetingstrikesunionssolidarity Notes1 Florence Reece, quoted in “Hall of Fame: Power of Arts and Creative Expression,” Labor Heritage Foundation, February 16, 2009, https://www.laborheritage.org/power-of-songs/.2 Ibid.3 UNITE HERE Local 11, Letter to the American Political Science Association, July 19, 2023. [See Appendix A]4 Ibid.5 APSA, “Update on the 2023 Annual Meeting and Exhibition,” Political Science Now, July 28, 2023, https://politicalsciencenow.com/update-on-2023-apsa-annual-meeting-exhibition/6 Ibid.7 Ibid.8 Ibid.9 Ibid.10 APSA, “Planning Area: Annual Meeting Updates,” https://connect.apsanet.org/apsa2023/planning-area/.11 UNITE HERE Local 11, Letter to APSA Members, August 2, 2023. [Bold in original; See Appendix B]12 APSA Presidents, “Message from APSA Presidents – APSA Annual Meeting 2023,” August 4, 2023, https://connect.apsanet.org/apsa2023/planning-area/.13 Labor Politics Group, “Open Letter to APSA Council.” [See Appendix C, names redacted]14 Labor Politics Group, Email to Members, July 29, 2023. [See Appendix D]15 Critical Political Science Chair, Email to APSA Leadership, July 27, 2023. [See Appendix E]16 Critical Political Science Chair, Email to Members, July 27, 2023. [See Appendix E]17 Critical Political Science Chair, Email to Members, July 31, 2023, https://connect.apsanet.org/s27/ [Appendix F].18 Ibid.19 Peter Drier, “A Political Battle Within Political Science: Which Side Is the APSA On?” The Nation, August 2, 2023, https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/apsa-convention-unite-here-strike/; Mary Yang, “Los Angeles Hotel Workers’ Strike Ignites Backlash Among Political Scientists,” The Guardian, August 14, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/14/striking-los-angeles-hotel-workers-american-political-science-association; Alex N. Press, “The American Political Science Association’s Profile in Cowardice,” Jacobin, August 8, 2023, https://jacobin.com/2023/08/american-political-science-association-conference-los-angeles-hotel-strike-picket-line-solidarity; Dave Jamieson, “Hotel Workers’ Union Calls for Convention Boycott of Los Angeles,” The Huffington Post, August 24, 2023, https://jacobin.com/2023/08/american-political-science-associ","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":" 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nostalgia, Hypermasculinity, and the American Far Right: What Ever Happened to Being Proud of Your Boy?","authors":"Candice K. Travis","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2023.2272537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2272537","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract How should we understand the rise of white nationalism in the United States in the last decade? I analyze the language and behavior of the Proud Boys to understand what drives their politicized street violence as well as their aggressive and hateful rhetoric. In so doing, I highlight the interplay between nostalgia, mythology, and conspiratorial thinking to show how Proud Boys operate against a sense of loss—specifically, the loss of pride in their identities as white men—brought upon them by evil enemies. I argue that we can best understand the appeal of the Proud Boys’ chauvinist white nationalism by paying close attention to their anti-feminism, hypermasculinity, outspoken “Western-ness,” and nationalist nostalgia.","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":"311 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135474683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Collective Trauma of International Relations <i>The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States</i> , by Matthew G. Specter, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022, xii + 321 pp., $30.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-50-362996-7. <i>From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics</i> , by Adam B. Lerner, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022, 272 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-19-…","authors":"F. Peter Wagner","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2023.2273056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2273056","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Matthew Specter, The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought between Germany and the United States (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022), ix.2 Adam B. Lerner, From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022), 199–200.","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":"2019 39","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135636707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Global Left: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow <b> <i>The Global Left: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow</i> </b> , by Immanuel Wallerstein, New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, 110 pp., $30.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-138-39039-3.","authors":"Pedro Vieira","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2023.2273061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2273061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":"41 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135933828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century</i> <b> <i>Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century</i> </b> , by Hélène Landemore, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020, 272 pp., $48.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-6911-8199-8.","authors":"Mark J. Kaswan","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2023.2273064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2273064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":"21 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135973372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Huntington to Trump: Thirty Years of the Clash of Civilizations <b> <i>From Huntington to Trump: Thirty Years of the Clash of Civilizations</i> </b> , by Jeffrey Haynes, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019, 252 pp., $39.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4985-7821-9.","authors":"William J. Nichols","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2023.2273065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2273065","url":null,"abstract":"\"From Huntington to Trump: Thirty Years of the Clash of Civilizations.\" New Political Science, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":"498 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135863539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet</i> <b> <i>Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet</i> </b> , by Robert Gottlieb, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, 248 pp., $30.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-2625-4375-0.","authors":"Shaun Respess","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2023.2273070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2273070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":"177 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136104250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty <b> <i>Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty</i> </b> , by Samuel Issacharoff, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 286 pp., $30 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-19-767475-8.","authors":"Zachary R. Thomas","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2023.2273072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2273072","url":null,"abstract":"\"Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty.\" New Political Science, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–4","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136068320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Values in Political Economy <b> <i>Cultural Values in Political Economy</i> </b> , edited by J. P. Singh, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020, 248 pp. (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-503-61269-3.","authors":"Robert Flahive","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2023.2273067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2273067","url":null,"abstract":"\"Cultural Values in Political Economy.\" New Political Science, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–4","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136022570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}