Farah Godrej
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4247956 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Farah Godrej |
| NOMBRES | Farah |
| APELLIDO | Godrej |
| FIRMA | GODREJ F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1613-5316 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Freedom Inside?
Freedom Inside? offers a combination of personal narrative and scholarly research in order to examine the role of yoga and meditation in US prisons. It offers a glimpse inside the system now known as mass incarceration, which disproportionately punishes, confines, and controls those from black, brown, and/or poor communities at exponentially higher rates, diminishing their life-chances and creating a vast underclass of disempowered, subordinated …
Yoga, Meditation, and Neoliberal Penality
In this essay, I argue that a normative commitment to dismantling mass incarceration requires us to examine the effects of self-care and self-disciplinary practices within carceral spaces. I take up the specific case of the South Asian traditions of yoga and meditation. Many critics have suggested that their practices can produce pacifying, politically neutering effects through their emphases on non-judgment and non-reaction. They can teach accep…
The tales we tell
This essay traces the evolution of the city now known as Mumbai – formerly Bombay – intertwined with the author’s life-experiences of being embedded in the city. Scholarly, literary, and journalistic treatments all assert that the city’s renaming represents a move toward a fundamentalist, anti-secular and nativist form of Hindu supremacist politics. But this is also a form myth-making: the story of Bombay’s epic cosmopolitanism and the story of i…
Fred Dallmayr
Fred Dallmayr’s work is innovative in its rethinking of some of the central concepts of modern political philosophy, challenging the hegemony of a modern “subjectivity” at the heart of Western liberalism, individualism and rationalism, and articulating alternative voices, claims and ideas. His writings productively confound the logocentrism of Western modernity, while providing alternative conceptions of political community that are post-individu…
Gandhi, Foucault, and the Politics of Self-Care
This essay engages Gandhi’s thought in two staged conversations. The first brings his writings on dietary self-cultivation into conversation with contemporary discourses of food politics. The second brings his preoccupation with self-care into conversation with Foucault’s later work on practices of the self. Gandhi and Foucault’s respective conceptualizations of self-care might productively supplement one another while responding to the peculiar …
The Neoliberal Yogi and the Politics of Yoga
Can the theory and practice of the yogic tradition serve as a challenge to dominant cultural and political norms in the Western world? In this essay I demonstrate that modern yoga is a creature of fabrication, while arguing that yogic norms can simultaneously reinforce and challenge the norms of contemporary Western neoliberal societies. In its current and most common iteration in the West, yoga practice does stand in danger of reinforcing neolib…
Culture and Difference
Can non-Western traditions offer the West intellectual resources to re-conceptualize the human–nature relationship, and transform our ethical relationship to the natural world? This essay argues that there have been two kinds of approaches to this question: first, an almost purely ethical approach that is termed “civilizational,” which follows the logic inherent in biocentric critiques of Western anthropocentrism and instrumentalism; and second, …
Orthodoxy and Dissent in Hinduism’s Meditative Traditions
Hindu philosophy and its associated meditative traditions have historically been characterized as renunciatory and world-negating, producing an ethic of political passivity, quietism, and indifference. In contrast, I demonstrate here that both the orthodox systems of Hindu philosophy and the heterodox Tantric tradition have been enlisted in service of a variety of socio-political commitments and projects, within and outside India. The more import…
Ascetics, Warriors, and a Gandhian Ecological Citizenship
I argue here that a clearer conception of Gandhi’s nonviolence is required in order to understand his resonance for contemporary environmentalism. Gandhi’s nonviolence incorporates elements of both the brahmin or ascetic, as well as the ksatriya or warrior. Contemporary environmental movements by and large over-emphasize the self-abnegating, self-denying and self-scrutinizing ascetic components of Gandhi’s thought, to the neglect of the confronta…
Postcolonialism for Political Theorists
Postcolonialism for Political Theorists:Kohn and McBride's Political Theories of Decolonization Farah Godrej (bio) Margaret Kohn and Keally McBride. Political Theories of Decolonization: Postcolonialism and the Problem of Foundations. Oxford University Press: 2011. US $27.95 (paper). 244 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-539958-5 In this collection of essays, Margaret Kohn and Keally McBride identify—and attempt to fill—an important gap in political theory. P…
Spaces for Counter-Narratives
Response to “What Is Comparative Political Theory
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Towards a Cosmopolitan Political Thought
The emergence of the field of comparative political theory suggests that the encounter with non-Western texts be considered a legitimate and necessary part of political theory, so that the field is reconstituted in a truly cosmopolitan manner. However, this also presents unique challenges to political theorists. Chief among these is the question of what hermeneutic approach would allow us to understand well the ideas contained in these texts. Thi…
Nonviolence and Gandhi's truth
Can we gain any fresh insight into the problem of mediating among competing truth claims in political life? This essay will demonstrate that the political theory of Mahatma Gandhi provides us with a novel way to understand and arbitrate the conflict among moral projects. Gandhi offers us a vision of political action that insists on the viability of the search for truth and the implicit possibility of adjudicating among competing claims to truth. …
The Neoliberal Yogi and the Politics of Yoga
Can the theory and practice of the yogic tradition serve as a challenge to dominant cultural and political norms in the Western world? In this essay I demonstrate that modern yoga is a creature of fabrication, while arguing that yogic norms can simultaneously reinforce and challenge the norms of contemporary Western neoliberal societies. In its current and most common iteration in the West, yoga practice does stand in danger of reinforcing neolib…
Towards a Cosmopolitan Political Thought
The emergence of the field of comparative political theory suggests that the encounter with non-Western texts be considered a legitimate and necessary part of political theory, so that the field is reconstituted in a truly cosmopolitan manner. However, this also presents unique challenges to political theorists. Chief among these is the question of what hermeneutic approach would allow us to understand well the ideas contained in these texts. Thi…
Ascetics, Warriors, and a Gandhian Ecological Citizenship
I argue here that a clearer conception of Gandhi’s nonviolence is required in order to understand his resonance for contemporary environmentalism. Gandhi’s nonviolence incorporates elements of both the brahmin or ascetic, as well as the ksatriya or warrior. Contemporary environmental movements by and large over-emphasize the self-abnegating, self-denying and self-scrutinizing ascetic components of Gandhi’s thought, to the neglect of the confronta…
Response to “What Is Comparative Political Theory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Nonviolence and Gandhi's truth
Can we gain any fresh insight into the problem of mediating among competing truth claims in political life? This essay will demonstrate that the political theory of Mahatma Gandhi provides us with a novel way to understand and arbitrate the conflict among moral projects. Gandhi offers us a vision of political action that insists on the viability of the search for truth and the implicit possibility of adjudicating among competing claims to truth. …
Yoga, Meditation, and Neoliberal Penality
In this essay, I argue that a normative commitment to dismantling mass incarceration requires us to examine the effects of self-care and self-disciplinary practices within carceral spaces. I take up the specific case of the South Asian traditions of yoga and meditation. Many critics have suggested that their practices can produce pacifying, politically neutering effects through their emphases on non-judgment and non-reaction. They can teach accep…
The tales we tell
This essay traces the evolution of the city now known as Mumbai – formerly Bombay – intertwined with the author’s life-experiences of being embedded in the city. Scholarly, literary, and journalistic treatments all assert that the city’s renaming represents a move toward a fundamentalist, anti-secular and nativist form of Hindu supremacist politics. But this is also a form myth-making: the story of Bombay’s epic cosmopolitanism and the story of i…
Orthodoxy and Dissent in Hinduism’s Meditative Traditions
Hindu philosophy and its associated meditative traditions have historically been characterized as renunciatory and world-negating, producing an ethic of political passivity, quietism, and indifference. In contrast, I demonstrate here that both the orthodox systems of Hindu philosophy and the heterodox Tantric tradition have been enlisted in service of a variety of socio-political commitments and projects, within and outside India. The more import…
Spaces for Counter-Narratives
Nonviolence and Gandhi's truth
Can we gain any fresh insight into the problem of mediating among competing truth claims in political life? This essay will demonstrate that the political theory of Mahatma Gandhi provides us with a novel way to understand and arbitrate the conflict among moral projects. Gandhi offers us a vision of political action that insists on the viability of the search for truth and the implicit possibility of adjudicating among competing claims to truth. …
Response to “What Is Comparative Political Theory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Towards a Cosmopolitan Political Thought
The emergence of the field of comparative political theory suggests that the encounter with non-Western texts be considered a legitimate and necessary part of political theory, so that the field is reconstituted in a truly cosmopolitan manner. However, this also presents unique challenges to political theorists. Chief among these is the question of what hermeneutic approach would allow us to understand well the ideas contained in these texts. Thi…
Postcolonialism for Political Theorists
Postcolonialism for Political Theorists:Kohn and McBride's Political Theories of Decolonization Farah Godrej (bio) Margaret Kohn and Keally McBride. Political Theories of Decolonization: Postcolonialism and the Problem of Foundations. Oxford University Press: 2011. US $27.95 (paper). 244 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-539958-5 In this collection of essays, Margaret Kohn and Keally McBride identify—and attempt to fill—an important gap in political theory. P…
Spaces for Counter-Narratives
Ascetics, Warriors, and a Gandhian Ecological Citizenship
I argue here that a clearer conception of Gandhi’s nonviolence is required in order to understand his resonance for contemporary environmentalism. Gandhi’s nonviolence incorporates elements of both the brahmin or ascetic, as well as the ksatriya or warrior. Contemporary environmental movements by and large over-emphasize the self-abnegating, self-denying and self-scrutinizing ascetic components of Gandhi’s thought, to the neglect of the confronta…
Culture and Difference
Can non-Western traditions offer the West intellectual resources to re-conceptualize the human–nature relationship, and transform our ethical relationship to the natural world? This essay argues that there have been two kinds of approaches to this question: first, an almost purely ethical approach that is termed “civilizational,” which follows the logic inherent in biocentric critiques of Western anthropocentrism and instrumentalism; and second, …
Orthodoxy and Dissent in Hinduism’s Meditative Traditions
Hindu philosophy and its associated meditative traditions have historically been characterized as renunciatory and world-negating, producing an ethic of political passivity, quietism, and indifference. In contrast, I demonstrate here that both the orthodox systems of Hindu philosophy and the heterodox Tantric tradition have been enlisted in service of a variety of socio-political commitments and projects, within and outside India. The more import…
Fred Dallmayr
Fred Dallmayr’s work is innovative in its rethinking of some of the central concepts of modern political philosophy, challenging the hegemony of a modern “subjectivity” at the heart of Western liberalism, individualism and rationalism, and articulating alternative voices, claims and ideas. His writings productively confound the logocentrism of Western modernity, while providing alternative conceptions of political community that are post-individu…
Gandhi, Foucault, and the Politics of Self-Care
This essay engages Gandhi’s thought in two staged conversations. The first brings his writings on dietary self-cultivation into conversation with contemporary discourses of food politics. The second brings his preoccupation with self-care into conversation with Foucault’s later work on practices of the self. Gandhi and Foucault’s respective conceptualizations of self-care might productively supplement one another while responding to the peculiar …
The Neoliberal Yogi and the Politics of Yoga
Can the theory and practice of the yogic tradition serve as a challenge to dominant cultural and political norms in the Western world? In this essay I demonstrate that modern yoga is a creature of fabrication, while arguing that yogic norms can simultaneously reinforce and challenge the norms of contemporary Western neoliberal societies. In its current and most common iteration in the West, yoga practice does stand in danger of reinforcing neolib…
The tales we tell
This essay traces the evolution of the city now known as Mumbai – formerly Bombay – intertwined with the author’s life-experiences of being embedded in the city. Scholarly, literary, and journalistic treatments all assert that the city’s renaming represents a move toward a fundamentalist, anti-secular and nativist form of Hindu supremacist politics. But this is also a form myth-making: the story of Bombay’s epic cosmopolitanism and the story of i…
Freedom Inside?
Freedom Inside? offers a combination of personal narrative and scholarly research in order to examine the role of yoga and meditation in US prisons. It offers a glimpse inside the system now known as mass incarceration, which disproportionately punishes, confines, and controls those from black, brown, and/or poor communities at exponentially higher rates, diminishing their life-chances and creating a vast underclass of disempowered, subordinated …
Yoga, Meditation, and Neoliberal Penality
In this essay, I argue that a normative commitment to dismantling mass incarceration requires us to examine the effects of self-care and self-disciplinary practices within carceral spaces. I take up the specific case of the South Asian traditions of yoga and meditation. Many critics have suggested that their practices can produce pacifying, politically neutering effects through their emphases on non-judgment and non-reaction. They can teach accep…
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