The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines (Global, Area, and International Archive)

The usefulness and political implications of Area Studies programs are currently debated within the Academy and the Administration, where they are often treated as one homogenous and stagnant domain of scholarship. The essays in this volume document the various fields' distinctive character and internal heterogeneity as well as the dynamism resulting from their evolving engagements with funders, US and international politics, and domestic constituencies. The authors were chosen for their long-standing interest in the intellectual evolution of their fields. They describe the origins and histories of US-based Area Studies programs, highlighting their complex, generative, and sometimes contentious relationships with the social science and humanities disciplines and their diverse contributions to the regions of the world with which they are concerned. Latin American studies : theory and practice / Paul W. Drake and Lisa Hilbink The Middle East in the past and future of social science / Timothy Mitchell Area studies in search of Africa / Pearl T. Robinson Japanese studies : the intangible act of translation / Alan Tansman Soviet and post-Soviet area studies / Victoria E. Bonnell and George W. Breslauer Eastern Europe or Central Europe? Exploring a distinct regional identity / Ellen Comisso and Brad Gutierrez The transformation of contemporary China studies, 1977/2002 / Andrew G. Walder South Asian studies : futures past / Nicholas B. Dirks The development of Southeast Asian studies in the United States / John Bowen. cover.jpg......Page 1 szd01_02.pdf......Page 2 szd01_03.pdf......Page 30 szd01_04.pdf......Page 63 szd01_05.pdf......Page 95 szd01_06.pdf......Page 119 szd01_07.pdf......Page 161 szd01_08.pdf......Page 198 szd01_09.pdf......Page 217 szd01_10.pdf......Page 273