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Angela Y. Davis (2023)
Book Chapter
Ramgotra, M. (2023). Angela Y. Davis. In M. Ramgotra, & S. Choat (Eds.), Rethinking Political Thinkers (pp. 639-656). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198847397.003.0035

This chapter examines the core ideas of Angela Davis’s radical Marxist, abolitionist, political theory. It starts by looking at her experiences of racism, sexism, and imprisonment which underpin her activism to create a better world against the oppre... Read More about Angela Y. Davis.

Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter
Ramgotra, M., & Choat, S. (2023). Introduction. In M. Ramgotra, & S. Choat (Eds.), Rethinking Political Thinkers (pp. 1-16). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198847397.003.0001

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the study of political thought. It examines political thought as a specific way of understanding and analysing politics, highlighting some recent debates and developments, including the development of... Read More about Introduction.

Aristotle and bell hooks (2023)
Book Chapter
Ramgotra, M. (2023). Aristotle and bell hooks. In M. Ramgotra, & S. Choat (Eds.), Rethinking Political Thinkers (pp. 39-56). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198847397.003.0003

This chapter compares Aristotle’s and bell hooks’ conceptions of politics. Even though he was a foreigner in Athens and therefore not a citizen, Aristotle writes from the position of the ruling classes; whereas bell hooks writes from the position of... Read More about Aristotle and bell hooks.

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu (2023)
Book Chapter
Ramgotra, M. (2023). Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu. In M. Ramgotra, & S. Choat (Eds.), Rethinking Political Thinkers (pp. 185-202). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198847397.003.0011

This chapter examines the political theory and writings of French Enlightenment thinker, Montesquieu. It contends that Montesquieu’s constitutional theory of the separation of powers promoted a strong government which advanced individual freedom, mai... Read More about Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu.

A Comparative Account of Decolonising Political Theory in the Global South and North: The Case of Wits and SOAS (2022)
Book Chapter
Ramgotra, M., & Omar, A. (2022). A Comparative Account of Decolonising Political Theory in the Global South and North: The Case of Wits and SOAS. In E. Walton, & R. Osman (Eds.), Pedagogical Responsiveness in Complex Contexts: Issues of Transformation, Inclusion and Equity (pp. 165-180). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12718-2

This chapter explores the notion of pedagogical responsiveness in two complex, politically intense, university teaching contexts: the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits), South Africa, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (... Read More about A Comparative Account of Decolonising Political Theory in the Global South and North: The Case of Wits and SOAS.

Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries (2022)
Journal Article
Ramgotra, M. (2022). Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries. History of European Ideas, 48(3), 263-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2022.2056335

This article explores how our thinking about time shapes epistemological and ontological understandings of the world. It considers the idea of modernity as constituted by the ancient/modern binary through an examination of Montesquieu’s and Benjamin... Read More about Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries.

Review of: Democracy in the Moment: The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt (2021)
Journal Article
Ramgotra, M. (2021). Review of: Democracy in the Moment: The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt [Review of the book Political Philosophy in the Moment: Narratives of Freedom from Plato to Arendt. By Jim Josefson and Hannah Arendt and Participatory Democracy: A People's Utopia. By Shmuel Lederman]. Arendt Studies: A Journal for Research on the Life, Work, and Legacy of Hannah Arendt, 5, 197-204. https://doi.org/10.5840/arendtstudies2021543

Confronting the complexities of decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education (2020)
Journal Article
Ramgotra, M., Morreira, S., Luckett, K., & Kumalo, S. H. (2020). Confronting the complexities of decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education. Third world thematics, 5(1/2), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2020.1798278

Recent critiques voiced by students in both the Global South and North have turned attention to the ways in which higher education practices have been informed by, and continue to perpetuate, a series of assumptions that favour particular epistemolog... Read More about Confronting the complexities of decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education.

Post-Colonial Republicanism and the Revival of a Paradigm (2018)
Journal Article
Ramgotra, M. (2018). Post-Colonial Republicanism and the Revival of a Paradigm. The Good Society: A Journal of Civic Studies, 26(1), 34-54. https://doi.org/10.5325/goodsociety.26.1.0034

Why did republicanism enjoy a revival in interest in the sixties and seventies and a “rediscovery” in the history of Western political thought? Over the twentieth century, many new states created through processes of decolonization conceptualized the... Read More about Post-Colonial Republicanism and the Revival of a Paradigm.