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Title Area studies at the crossroads : knowledge production after the mobility turn / Katja Mielke, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, editors
Published New York, NY : Springer Science and Business Media : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

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Contents Foreword: A Third Wave of Area Studies ; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures ; Part I: Area Studies at the Crossroads; Introduction: Knowledge Production, Area Studies and€the€Mobility Turn; Looking Back at the€Debate on€Area Studies; Recent Reinterpretations and€Thematic Innovations; Comparative Insights; Looking Ahead: The€Future of€Area Studies; Organization of€the€Book; Bibliography; The Neoliberal University and€Global Immobilities of€Theory; A Multiplication of€World Powers: Area Studies in€the€Context of€Proliferating Hegemonies
The Disciplines as€Disguised Forms of€Western Area StudiesDilemmas in€Challenging Euro-Amerocentrism; Area Studies under€Global Capitalism: The€Role of€the€Neoliberal University in€Entrenching the€Global Immobility of€Theory Production; Bordered Geographies of€Global Academic "Quality" under€Neoliberalism; Neoliberal Externalities as€Barriers to€Theoretical Innovation: Why Critique of€Eurocentrism Is Not Enough; Strategic Responses: Researching, Collaborating and€Publishing beyond€Euro-America; Notes; Bibliography
Part II: To Be or Not to Be Is Not the Question. Rethinking Area Studies in Its Own RightDoing Area Studies in the Americas and Beyond: Towards Reciprocal Methodologies and the Decolonization of Knowledge; Geopolitics of Knowledge and Area Studies; Reciprocal Methodologies; The Research Topic; Co-Presence and Dialogue; "Sources" and Their Lecture; Authority and Representation; Public and Publication; An Example: Area Studies in the Academic Field; Notes; Bibliography; Area Studies @ Southeast Asia: Alternative Areas versus Alternatives to Areas; Area Studies without Areas?
Current Alternatives to€AreasSoutheast Asia as€Constructed, Euro-Centric and€Strategic: Critiques Criticized; Recent Concepts and€Their Implicit Spatiality; A Proposal: Area as€Family Resemblances Plus€Network; Bibliography; Between Ignoring and€Romanticizing: The€Position of€Area Studies in€Policy Advice; Institutional Settings of€PCS Think Tanks; The Example of€Local Politics in€Afghanistan; Ignoring Area Expertise; Romanticizing Area Expertise; From "Colonializing Area Studies" to€the€"Subjectivity of€the€Local"; Notes; Bibliography; Part III: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn
Positionality and€the€Relational Production of€Place in€the€Context of€Student Migration to€Gilgit, PakistanPositionality and€the€Relational Production of€Place; The Places of€Student Migration to€Gilgit; Home: The€Village Context in€Gojal; Gilgit: The€Migration Context; Providing Safe Havens: The€Girls' Hostel Place; Encounters on€New Ground: The€Campus Place of€Karakorum International University; Conclusion: Gendered Lifeworlds, Shifting Positionalities and€the€Relational Production of€Place; Notes; Bibliography
Summary In this pioneering volume, leading scholars from a diversity of backgrounds in the humanities, social sciences, and different area studies argue for a more differentiated and self-reflected role of area-based science in global knowledge production. Considering that the mobility of people, goods, and ideas make the world more complex and geographically fixed categories increasingly obsolete, the authors call for a reflection of this new dynamism in research, teaching, and theorizing. The book thus moves beyond the constructed divide between area studies and systematic disciplines and instead proposes methodological and conceptual ways for encouraging the integration of marginalized and often overseen epistemologies. Essays on the ontological, theoretical, and pedagogical dimension of area studies highlight how people's everyday practices of mobility challenge scholars, students, and practitioners of inter- and transdisciplinary area studies to transcend the cognitive boundaries that scholarly minds currently operate in
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Area studies -- History
Politics & government.
International relations.
Globalization.
Comparative politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
Area studies
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Mielke, Katja, editor
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina
ISBN 9781137598349
1137598344