Area Studies at the Crossroads Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mielke, Katja (Editor), Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (Editor)
Summary:XXIII, 363 p. 13 illus., 6 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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.