“…I situate this article within the emerging subfield of CPT, which has sought to “deparochialise” political thought within the globally privileged Western canon, by including thinkers, positions, methods, and knowledges from “non-Western” places and cultures, or from marginalised perspectives within the Western tradition. 1 Discussion among CPT scholars is often characterised by hyper-reflexivity, and most of the terms used in the previous sentence (Western, non-Western, tradition, culture) are the subject of active critique and debate, as participants seek to avoid generalising, essentialising, and reifying, even while recognising and contesting the power dynamics that continue to govern the practice and teaching of political theory in academic institutions, dynamics that privilege the thought and views of predominantly white, male, heterosexual individuals from Europe or North America (Godrej, 2009; Idris, 2016; Williams and Warren, 2014).…”