Megan C Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4193856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan C Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Remaindered Life
As its preface helpfully summarizes, Remaindered Life “retells the story of the global capitalist present” generally told as a story of an agential Global North whose effects ripple to the Global South, by “recast[ing] the global present as instead the aftermath and continuing effects of unfinished movements of decolonization against an extant imperial relation of dispossession that serves up enabling milieus for the labor-capital relation” (x). …
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory provides an entry point into this burgeoning field by both synthesizing and challenging the terms that motivate it. The handbook demonstrates how mainstream political theory can and must be enriched through attention to genuinely global, rather than parochially Euro-American, contributions to political thinking. Entries emphasize exploration of substantive questions about political life—ranging …
Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory
Meritocracy, Aristocracy, and “Literati Democracy” in Chinese Imperial History
This chapter focuses on Qian Mu’s theory of “literati democracy” and related claims that the selection of literati officials in imperial China was “meritocratic.” By focusing on China’s early Middle Ages, this chapter shows, first, that before the implementation of civil service examinations in the seventh century, “meritocracy” already was a ruling principle of medieval recruitment systems; and second, that the meritocratic nature of Qian Mu’s l…
Securing Trade
Military labor played a key role in conquering and preserving ports as nodes in trading networks. This article treats the military labor of the British occupation of Manila from 1762 to 1764, during the Seven Years War. It examines the motley crew that formed the British forces, exploring British categories of military laborers sent from Madras. The particular combination of forces composed for this expedition had more to do with the East India C…
Proclaiming Sovereignty
In the late eighteenth century, in the northern province of Ilocos of the Philippine island of Luzon, an uprising of locals seized power from the Spanish colonial authorities, exiling and imprisoning them in the name of preserving the sovereignty of the Spanish crown and Catholic Church. How could this seemingly contradictory move be made? This chapter seeks to provide an answer to this and related questions about the dialectical relationship bet…
Secrecy’s use
Isabelo de los Reyes and the Philippine Contemporaries of La Solidaridad
This article argues that some of the newspapers of late Spanish colonial Manila should be considered as being politically contentious, and instruments of propaganda, along with La Solidaridad. Specifically, the article documents lsabelo de los Reyes's participation in the press of this period, particularly though not exclusively in bilingual newspapers, and argues that this fact has not been fully recognized, in part because of his many pseudonym…
Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados
The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. This book shows that the ilustrados’ anticolonial project of defining and constructing the “Filipino”-involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial projects, not anticolonial ones. According to the text, the work of the ilustrados uncovers the surpris…
Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados
The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. This book shows that the ilustrados’ anticolonial project of defining and constructing the “Filipino”-involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial projects, not anticolonial ones. According to the text, the work of the ilustrados uncovers the surpris…
Orientalism and Comparative Political Theory
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Orientalists such as Schlegel and Müller sought to broaden narrow European scholarly horizons by comparing ancient Indian ideas with those of classical Greece and Rome and modern Europe, and thus to transform the human sciences. These aims are similar to contemporary comparative political theory's concerns to remedy the Eurocentrism of the field of political theory and to identify valuable ideas in non-Western s…
K is for De-Kolonization
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Orientalism and Comparative Political Theory
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Orientalists such as Schlegel and Müller sought to broaden narrow European scholarly horizons by comparing ancient Indian ideas with those of classical Greece and Rome and modern Europe, and thus to transform the human sciences. These aims are similar to contemporary comparative political theory's concerns to remedy the Eurocentrism of the field of political theory and to identify valuable ideas in non-Western s…
Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados
The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. This book shows that the ilustrados’ anticolonial project of defining and constructing the “Filipino”-involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial projects, not anticolonial ones. According to the text, the work of the ilustrados uncovers the surpris…
Securing Trade
Military labor played a key role in conquering and preserving ports as nodes in trading networks. This article treats the military labor of the British occupation of Manila from 1762 to 1764, during the Seven Years War. It examines the motley crew that formed the British forces, exploring British categories of military laborers sent from Madras. The particular combination of forces composed for this expedition had more to do with the East India C…
Isabelo de los Reyes and the Philippine Contemporaries of La Solidaridad
This article argues that some of the newspapers of late Spanish colonial Manila should be considered as being politically contentious, and instruments of propaganda, along with La Solidaridad. Specifically, the article documents lsabelo de los Reyes's participation in the press of this period, particularly though not exclusively in bilingual newspapers, and argues that this fact has not been fully recognized, in part because of his many pseudonym…
Secrecy’s use
K is for De-Kolonization
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
K is for De-Kolonization
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
Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados
The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. This book shows that the ilustrados’ anticolonial project of defining and constructing the “Filipino”-involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial projects, not anticolonial ones. According to the text, the work of the ilustrados uncovers the surpris…
Orientalism and Comparative Political Theory
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Orientalists such as Schlegel and Müller sought to broaden narrow European scholarly horizons by comparing ancient Indian ideas with those of classical Greece and Rome and modern Europe, and thus to transform the human sciences. These aims are similar to contemporary comparative political theory's concerns to remedy the Eurocentrism of the field of political theory and to identify valuable ideas in non-Western s…
Isabelo de los Reyes and the Philippine Contemporaries of La Solidaridad
This article argues that some of the newspapers of late Spanish colonial Manila should be considered as being politically contentious, and instruments of propaganda, along with La Solidaridad. Specifically, the article documents lsabelo de los Reyes's participation in the press of this period, particularly though not exclusively in bilingual newspapers, and argues that this fact has not been fully recognized, in part because of his many pseudonym…
Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados
The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. This book shows that the ilustrados’ anticolonial project of defining and constructing the “Filipino”-involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial projects, not anticolonial ones. According to the text, the work of the ilustrados uncovers the surpris…
Secrecy’s use
Proclaiming Sovereignty
In the late eighteenth century, in the northern province of Ilocos of the Philippine island of Luzon, an uprising of locals seized power from the Spanish colonial authorities, exiling and imprisoning them in the name of preserving the sovereignty of the Spanish crown and Catholic Church. How could this seemingly contradictory move be made? This chapter seeks to provide an answer to this and related questions about the dialectical relationship bet…
Meritocracy, Aristocracy, and “Literati Democracy” in Chinese Imperial History
This chapter focuses on Qian Mu’s theory of “literati democracy” and related claims that the selection of literati officials in imperial China was “meritocratic.” By focusing on China’s early Middle Ages, this chapter shows, first, that before the implementation of civil service examinations in the seventh century, “meritocracy” already was a ruling principle of medieval recruitment systems; and second, that the meritocratic nature of Qian Mu’s l…
Securing Trade
Military labor played a key role in conquering and preserving ports as nodes in trading networks. This article treats the military labor of the British occupation of Manila from 1762 to 1764, during the Seven Years War. It examines the motley crew that formed the British forces, exploring British categories of military laborers sent from Madras. The particular combination of forces composed for this expedition had more to do with the East India C…
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory provides an entry point into this burgeoning field by both synthesizing and challenging the terms that motivate it. The handbook demonstrates how mainstream political theory can and must be enriched through attention to genuinely global, rather than parochially Euro-American, contributions to political thinking. Entries emphasize exploration of substantive questions about political life—ranging …
Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory
Remaindered Life
As its preface helpfully summarizes, Remaindered Life “retells the story of the global capitalist present” generally told as a story of an agential Global North whose effects ripple to the Global South, by “recast[ing] the global present as instead the aftermath and continuing effects of unfinished movements of decolonization against an extant imperial relation of dispossession that serves up enabling milieus for the labor-capital relation” (x). …
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