Tim Charlebois

This course offers students an introduction to the field of political theory through a wide-ranging engagement with a diverse cross-section of political thought from across the planet. As such, we will engage political thought and thinkers not only from the “Western” canon but also the thought and writings of minoritized thinkers and groups—including Indigenous, Black, and feminist thinkers, as well as political thought beyond “the West.” In so doing, we will consider how various thinkers have thought through problems and questions of political community and belonging, freedom and domination, modernity and tradition, and have sought to (re)imagine their own conditions and possibilities.