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72 M.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (SEMESTER SYSTEM) SYLLABUSObjectives : This course is intended to be a companion to the compulsory courses on Western PoliticalThought and Key Concepts in Political Theory. It carries forward the discussion by focusing on themes andconcerns which have occupied debates particularly since the late twentieth century.Unit-I1. Environmentalism.2. Pacifism.Unit-II3. Feminism.4. Multiculturism.Unit-III5. Neo-liberalism.6. Post Marxism.Unit-IV7. Postcolonialism.8. Postmodernism.General :Reading List :R.E. Goodin and P. Petit, A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Blackwell, 1995Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Theory : An Introduction, OUP, 2002Terence Ball and Richard Bellamy (ed.), The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Political Thought,Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2003.Colin Farelly, Contemporary Political Theory, Sage, 2004.Gerald F. Gaus and Chandran Kukathas, Handbook of Political Theory, Sage, 2004Environmentalism :Ramchandra Guha and Juan Martinez-Alier, Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays on North and South,OUP, 1998.John Dryzek and Scholberg, Debating the Earth : The Environmental Politics Reader, OUP, 1998.Lorraine Eliot, Global Politics of Environment, Macmillan, 1998.Pacifism :Allen Eickelmann, Eric Nelson and Tom Lansford, Violence, Pacifism and Cultural Transformation,Ashgate, 2005.Peter Brock and Nigel Young, Pacifism in the Twentieth Century, Syracuse Univ. Press, 1999.Feminism :Anne Phillips (ed.), Feminism and Politics, OUP, 1998.Judith Butler and J.W. Scott (ed.), Feminists Theories : The Political, Routledge, 1992.Alison Jaggar and Iris Marion Oung (ed.), A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Blackwell, 1998.