Political Ideologies and Worldviews An Introduction

Political Ideologies and Worldviews: An Introduction takes a “pluralist” approach and, in addition to being the first open textbook on its subject, also pushes back against the Eurocentric tendencies of standard textbooks by including chapters on Indigenous worldviews and Confucianism. Providing the...

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Main Author: Vézina, Valérie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: British Columbia Kwantlen Polytechnic University [2021]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction: Approaching political ideologies
  • II. Dis(placement) and Indigenous Worldview : What I learned from Coyote
  • III. Liberalism: From the "free men" to the "free market"
  • IV. Conservatism: Slow change please!
  • V. Socialism. Two Centuries of Social Progress.
  • VI. Anarchism: No gods, no masters
  • VII. Nationalism: A Modern Ideology Summoning an Eternal Past
  • VIII. Multiculturalism: Public Philosophy and Public Policy
  • IX. Populism: 'The Will of the People'?
  • X. Islamism and its Relation to Islam and the West: Common Themes and Varieties
  • XI. Confucianism: A Living Ideology
  • XII. The Environment: Theory and Human Security
  • XIII. A Late Modern Typology of Democratizing Feminisms
  • XIV. Concluding remarks: Ideology in the Globalized Future