{"id":9966,"date":"2023-03-07T15:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2023-03-07T15:29:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:29:30","slug":"karuna-mantena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/karuna-mantena\/","title":{"rendered":"Karuna Mantena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/polisci.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cu_crop\/public\/content\/Images\/ProfilePhotos\/mantena.jpg?itok=EFRZuiX0\" alt=\"photo of Karuna Mantena\" width=\"243\" height=\"283\" \/>Karuna Mantena specializes in political theory with research interests in the theory and history of empire, South Asian intellectual history, and postcolonial democracy. \u00a0Karuna holds a B.Sc.(Economics) in International Relations from the London School of Economics (1995), an M.A. in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex (1996), and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University (2004). Her first book,\u00a0<em>Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism<\/em>\u00a0(2010), analyzed the transformation of nineteenth-century British imperial ideology. She is currently finishing on a book on M. K. Gandhi and the politics of nonviolence, tentatively titled\u00a0<em>Gandhi\u2019s Realism: Means and Ends in Politics.\u00a0<\/em>She is also co-director of the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Mantena&#8217;s\u00a0recent publications include: \u201cShowdown for Nonviolence: The Theory and Practice of Nonviolence,\u201d\u00a0<em>To Shape a New World: The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.,\u00a0<\/em>edited by Brandon Terry and Tommie Shelby (2018);\u00a0\u201cThe Power of Nonviolence,\u201d\u00a0<em>AEON\u00a0<\/em>(2016);\u00a0\u201cPopular Sovereignty and Anticolonialism,\u201d\u00a0<em>Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective,\u00a0<\/em>edited by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner (2016); \u201cOn Gandhi\u2019s Critique of the State: Sources, Contexts, Conjunctures,\u201d\u00a0<em>Modern Intellectual History<\/em>\u00a09: 3 (2012); \u201cAnother Realism: The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolence,\u201d\u00a0<em>American Political Science Review<\/em>\u00a0106: 2 (2012); \u201cSocial Theory in the Age of Empire,\u201d\u00a0<em>Empire and Modern Political Thought<\/em>, edited by Sankar Muthu (2012); \u201cGenealogies of Catastrophe: Arendt on the Logic and Legacy of Imperialism,\u201d\u00a0<em>Politics in Dark Times: Encounters with Hannah Arendt,\u00a0<\/em>edited by Seyla Benhabib, Roy T. Tsao, and Peter Verovsek (2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karuna Mantena specializes in political theory with research interests in the theory and history of empire, South Asian intellectual history, and postcolonial democracy. \u00a0Karuna holds a B.Sc.(Economics) in International Relations from the London School of Economics (1995), an M.A. in&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/karuna-mantena\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests-12-13"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}