Area Studies at the Crossroads Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn /
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| Summary: | XXIII, 363 p. 13 illus., 6 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59834-9 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- I Area Studies at the Crossroads
- 1. Introduction: Knowledge Production, Area Studies and the Mobility Turn
- 2. The Neoliberal University and Global Immobilities of Theory
- II To Be or Not to Be Is Not the Question. Rethinging Area Studies in Its Own Right
- 3. Doing Area Studies in the Americas and Beyond. Towards Reciprocal Methodologies and the Decolonization of Knowledge
- 4. Area Studies @ Southeast Asia: Alternative Areas vs Alternatives to Areas
- 5. Between Ignoring and Romanticizing: The Position of Area Studies in Policy Advice
- III Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn
- 6. Positionality and the Relational Production of Place in the Context of Student Migration to Gilgit, Pakistan
- 7. Red Lines for Uncivilized Trade?: Fixity, Mobility and Positionality on Almaty's Changing Bazaars
- 8. Margins or Centre? Konkani Sufis, India and 'Arabastan'
- IV From Local Realities to Concepts and Theorizing
- 9. The Role of Area Studies in Theory Production. A Differentiation of Mid-Range Concepts and the Example of Social Order
- 10. The Production of Knowledge in the Field of Development and Area Studies: From Systems of Ignorance to Mid-Range Concepts for Global Ethnography
- 11. New Area Studies, Translation and Mid-Range Concepts
- 12. Mid-Range Concepts - The Lego Bricks of Meaning-Making. An Example from Khorezm, Uzbekistan
- V De-Streamlining Academic Society: Pedagogy and Teaching
- 13. The Case for Reconceptualizing Southeast Asian Studies
- 14. This Area is [Not] Under Quarantine: Rethinking Southeast/Asia through Studies of the Cinema
- 15. Teaching to Transgress: Crossroads Perspective and Adventures in (?)-Disciplinarity
- VI Anticipating the Future of Area Studies
- 16. Are Transregional Studies the Future of Area Studies?
- 17. Reflecting the Moving Target of Asia
- 18. The Art of Science Policy for 21st Century Area Studies: Concluding Reflections.