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Introduction To Political Theory

Prof. Mithilesh Kumar Jha · IIT Guwahati

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  1. General Outline and methods Video
  2. Political theories and ideologies Video

Week 2: Liberty

  1. Liberty: republican conception of freedom Video
  2. Freedom as autonomy;Positive and negative liberty Video
  3. Freedom as Swaraj,Free speech & hate speech Video

Week 3: Equality

  1. Introduction :Equity and egalitarianism Video
  2. Equality of opportunity; preferential treatment Video
  3. Luck Egalitarianism and its critiques; Equality and Liberty Video

Week 4 : Rights

  1. Introduction and forms of rights Video
  2. Conflicts between rights Video
  3. Rights and Duties Video

Week 5 :Justice

  1. Justice :A distributive concept Video
  2. Justice :Procedural & Substantive; Justice as fairness Video
  3. Justice :Capability approach; libertarian, communitarian conception of Justice Video
  4. Justice :Feminist conceptions of justice; Global justice Video

Week 6 : Power

  1. Introduction to Power and authority Video
  2. Power,legitimacy & hegemony Video
  3. Power & knowledge; different conceptions of power Video

Week 7 : State and Sovereignty

  1. Introduction and different conceptions of state & sovereignty Video
  2. Modern nation state; liberal, Marxist and feminist conceptions of state Video
  3. State and governmentality Video

Week 8: Democracy

  1. Introduction: Procedural and Substantive Democracy Video
  2. Various models of democracy Video

Week 9 : Democracy & Citizenship

  1. Challenges and Limits of Democracy; Free press and Democracy Video
  2. Citizenship: Subject and Citizen Video

Week 10 : Citizenship

  1. Lecture 1 : T H Marshal & liberal conceptions of Citizenship as legal and equal member Video
  2. Lecture 2 : Muliticulturalism and Cosmopolitan Citizenship Video

Week 11 : Politics & Environmental ethics

  1. "Introduction; Doom & Gloom; Democracy and environmental crisis " Video
  2. "Climate change and environmental justice " Video

Week 12 : Conclusion

  1. "Revisiting some key themes and concepts " Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 11-03-2021 Video
  2. Live Session 09-04-2021 Video
  3. Live Session 16-03-2020 Video
  4. Live Session 11-05-2020 Video
  5. Live Session 14-02-2022 Video
  6. Live Session 21-03-2022 Video
  7. Live Session 22-02-2024 Video
  8. Live Session 20-03-2024 Video
  9. Live Session 10-04-2024 Video
  10. Live Session 24-02-2025 Video
  11. Live Session 17-03-2025 Video
  12. Live Session 09-04-2025 Video

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Guwahati
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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