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Area Studies at the Crossroads

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Palgrave Macmillan USerschienen am28.02.20171st ed. 2017
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.   


Katja Mielke (Dr. phil.) is Senior Researcher at the Germany-based think tank BICC, a peace and conflict research institute in Bonn. Trained in Social Sciences, East European, and Central Asian Studies, she was one of the initiators of the Germany-wide research network 'Crossroads Asia' for rethinking area studies. 

Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Dr. phil.) is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, as well as Head of Department of Social Sciences and of the Working Group 'Development and Knowledge Sociology' at the Leibniz-Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Germany. Trained in Sociology and Southeast Asian Studies, she scientifically coordinated 'Crossroads Asia' from 2012 to 2014 and was responsible for designing the networks strategy for synthesizing the conducted research. Today, she remains part of the Executive Board of the network.mehr
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KlappentextIn 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.   


Katja Mielke (Dr. phil.) is Senior Researcher at the Germany-based think tank BICC, a peace and conflict research institute in Bonn. Trained in Social Sciences, East European, and Central Asian Studies, she was one of the initiators of the Germany-wide research network 'Crossroads Asia' for rethinking area studies. 

Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Dr. phil.) is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, as well as Head of Department of Social Sciences and of the Working Group 'Development and Knowledge Sociology' at the Leibniz-Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Germany. Trained in Sociology and Southeast Asian Studies, she scientifically coordinated 'Crossroads Asia' from 2012 to 2014 and was responsible for designing the networks strategy for synthesizing the conducted research. Today, she remains part of the Executive Board of the network.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9781137598349
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Erscheinungsjahr2017
Erscheinungsdatum28.02.2017
Auflage1st ed. 2017
Seiten363 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXXIII, 363 p. 13 illus., 6 illus. in color.
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Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1;Foreword: A Third Wave of Area Studies;5
2;Acknowledgements;8
3;Contents;9
4;Notes on Contributors;12
5;List of Figures;19
6;Part I: Area Studies at the Crossroads;20
6.1;Introduction: Knowledge Production, Area Studies and the Mobility Turn;21
6.1.1;Looking Back at the Debate on Area Studies;23
6.1.2;Recent Reinterpretations and Thematic Innovations;25
6.1.3;Comparative Insights;27
6.1.4;Looking Ahead: The Future of Area Studies;31
6.1.5;Organization of the Book;33
6.1.6;Bibliography;40
6.2;The Neoliberal University and Global Immobilities of Theory;45
6.2.1;A Multiplication of World Powers: Area Studies in the Context of Proliferating Hegemonies;46
6.2.2;The Disciplines as Disguised Forms of Western Area Studies;47
6.2.3;Dilemmas in Challenging Euro-Amerocentrism;48
6.2.3.1;Area Studies under Global Capitalism: The Role of the Neoliberal University in Entrenching the Global Immobility of Theory Production;51
6.2.3.2;Bordered Geographies of Global Academic Quality under Neoliberalism;52
6.2.3.3;Neoliberal Externalities as Barriers to Theoretical Innovation: Why Critique of Eurocentrism Is Not Enough;55
6.2.3.4;Strategic Responses: Researching, Collaborating and Publishing beyond Euro-America;57
6.2.4;Notes;60
6.2.5;Bibliography;60
7;Part II: To Be or Not to Be Is Not the Question. Rethinking Area Studies in Its Own Right;63
7.1;Doing Area Studies in the Americas and Beyond: Towards Reciprocal Methodologies and the Decolonization of Knowledge;64
7.1.1;Geopolitics of Knowledge and Area Studies;65
7.1.2;Reciprocal Methodologies;69
7.1.2.1;The Research Topic;69
7.1.2.2;Co-Presence and Dialogue;71
7.1.2.3; Sources and Their Lecture;72
7.1.2.4;Authority and Representation;73
7.1.2.5;Public and Publication;74
7.1.3;An Example: Area Studies in the Academic Field;75
7.1.4;Notes;78
7.1.5;Bibliography;79
7.2;Area Studies @ Southeast Asia: Alternative Areas versus Alternatives to Areas;82
7.2.1;Area Studies without Areas?;82
7.2.2;Current Alternatives to Areas;83
7.2.3;Southeast Asia as Constructed, Euro-Centric and Strategic: Critiques Criticized;86
7.2.4;Recent Concepts and Their Implicit Spatiality;89
7.2.5;A Proposal: Area as Family Resemblances Plus Network;91
7.2.6;Bibliography;94
7.3;Between Ignoring and Romanticizing: The Position of Area Studies in Policy Advice;99
7.3.1;Institutional Settings of PCS Think Tanks;100
7.3.2;The Example of Local Politics in Afghanistan;104
7.3.2.1;Ignoring Area Expertise;105
7.3.2.2;Romanticizing Area Expertise;107
7.3.3;From Colonializing Area Studies to the  Subjectivity of the Local ;110
7.3.4;Notes;113
7.3.5;Bibliography;114
8;Part III: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn;116
8.1;Positionality and the Relational Production of Place in the Context of Student Migration to Gilgit, Pakistan;117
8.1.1;Positionality and the Relational Production of Place;119
8.1.2;The Places of Student Migration to Gilgit;120
8.1.3;Home: The Village Context in Gojal;121
8.1.4;Gilgit: The Migration Context;122
8.1.5;Providing Safe Havens: The Girls´ Hostel Place;125
8.1.6;Encounters on New Ground: The Campus Place of Karakorum International University;126
8.1.7;Conclusion: Gendered Lifeworlds, Shifting Positionalities and the Relational Production of Place;129
8.1.8;Notes;131
8.1.9;Bibliography;132
8.2;Red Lines for Uncivilized Trade? Fixity, Mobility and Positionality on Almaty´s Changing Bazaars;134
8.2.1;The Fixity-Mobility-Positionality Nexus;136
8.2.2;Mobility and Fixity in the Transformation of Barakholka;139
8.2.3;Negotiating Positionality: Central and Remote;145
8.2.4;Conclusion;148
8.2.5;Notes;149
8.2.6;Bibliography;150
8.3;Margins or Center? Konkani Sufis, India and  Arabastan ;153
8.3.1;Political and Intellectual Context in Maharashtra;156
8.3.2;Ethnographical Context;160
8.3.3;Concluding Remarks;164
8.3.4;Notes;166
8.3.5;Bibliography;167
9;Part IV: From Local Realities to Concepts and Theorizing;169
9.1;The Role of Area Studies in Theory Production: A Differentiation of Mid-Range Concepts and the Example of Social Order;170
9.1.1;From Social Theorizing to Concept Development;171
9.1.2;Differentiating Mid-Range Concepts;175
9.1.3;Social Order as Lens for Understanding Local Politics, Order, and Change Processes;178
9.1.3.1;Understanding Authority and Politics in Transoxania (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century);179
9.1.3.2;Understanding Local Politics in Northeast Afghanistan Post-2001;181
9.1.4;Reflection: Enabling Conditions for Concept Development and Area Studies Theorizing;184
9.1.5;Notes;185
9.1.6;Bibliography;185
9.2;The Production of Knowledge in the Field of Development and Area Studies: From Systems of Ignorance to Mid-Range Concepts for Global Ethnography;188
9.2.1;Production of Knowledge for Development and Area Studies;188
9.2.2;Methodological Challenges;191
9.2.3;Bureaucratic Knowledge Management and Lack of a Critical Public Sphere: Constitution of  Systems of Ignorance ;194
9.2.4;Linking Area and Development Studies to Global Ethnography and Empirically Grounded Theory Building;197
9.2.5;Bibliography;201
9.3;New Area Studies, Translation and  Mid-­Range Concepts;206
9.3.1;The State of Area Studies Revisited;206
9.3.2;Outlining New Area Studies;211
9.3.3;Towards Situational Analysis, Translation and  Mid-­Range Concepts;215
9.3.4;Bibliography;221
9.4;Mid-Range Concepts-The Lego Bricks of Meaning-Making: An Example from Khorezm, Uzbekistan;223
9.4.1;Area Studies: The Study of Meaning and Being;223
9.4.2;Meaning-Making and Areas;226
9.4.3;Negotiating Realities in Uzbek Water Management;229
9.4.3.1;Formal Practices;230
9.4.3.2;Strategic Practices;231
9.4.3.3;Discursive Practices;232
9.4.4; Concluding Thoughts: The  Areas in Our Minds;233
9.4.5;Notes;236
9.4.6;Bibliography;237
10;Part V: De-Streamlining Academic Society: Pedagogy and Teaching;241
10.1;The Case for Reconceptualizing Southeast Asian Studies;242
10.1.1;Controversies;243
10.1.2;Globalization;246
10.1.3;Reconceptualizing Area Studies: Southeast Asian Studies as a Case Study;247
10.1.4;Adopting a Heuristic Approach;251
10.1.5;Pedagogy;253
10.1.6;Conclusion;254
10.1.7;Note;256
10.1.8;Bibliography;256
10.2;This Area Is [NOT] under Quarantine: Rethinking Southeast/Asia through Studies of the Cinema;259
10.2.1;Area Studies Temporalities;262
10.2.2;Re-Envisioning Southeast/Asia in Studies of the Cinema;263
10.2.3;Primitive;265
10.2.3.1; There Was No Nation ;266
10.2.4;Queer Sociality and Ordinariness;271
10.2.4.1;Temporalities of Buddhism;272
10.2.5;This Time in This Place/This Place at This Time;273
10.2.6;Notes;274
10.2.7;Bibliography;275
10.3;Teaching to Transgress: Crossroads Perspective and Adventures in (?)-Disciplinarity;277
10.3.1;Why I Write: Beyond Legacies of Epistemic Violence within Transmodern Complexity;279
10.3.2;Where I Write From: Crossroads Asia and Feminist Embodiments of Spatiality;281
10.3.3;What I Write For: Teaching to Transgress as an Adventure in (?)-Disciplinarity;284
10.3.4;In Conclusion: Deschooling Academic Society and Other Decolonial Becomings;288
10.3.5;Notes;289
10.3.6;Bibliography;290
11;Part VI: Anticipating the Future of Area Studies;295
11.1;Are Transregional Studies the Future of Area Studies?;296
11.1.1;Notes;311
11.1.2;Bibliography;313
11.2;Reflecting the Moving Target of Asia;315
11.2.1;Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Asia-Pacific: Attempts to Track a Moving Target;316
11.2.1.1;Essentialism;316
11.2.1.2;Institutionalism and Interactionism;319
11.2.1.3;Reflectivism;321
11.2.1.4;Reflexive Essentialism;324
11.2.2;Conclusion;328
11.2.3;Notes;330
11.2.4;Bibliography;330
11.3;Concluding Reflections: The Art of  Science Policy for 21st Century Area Studies;333
11.3.1;The Reordering of the Science System;334
11.3.2;Sustainable Development and the Need for Reflexive Knowledges;336
11.3.3;Neither Disciplines nor World Regions but Areas ;338
11.3.4;Area Studies in a World of Interdisciplinarity;341
11.3.5;Science Policymaking for Area Studies;344
11.3.5.1;Analytical, Emancipatory Area Studies;344
11.3.5.2;Mobile, Transregional Area Studies;345
11.3.5.3;Area Studies for and in Interdisciplinarity;346
11.3.6;Note;347
11.3.7;Bibliography;348
12;Index;351mehr

Autor

Katja Mielke (Dr. phil.) is Senior Researcher at the Germany-based think tank BICC, a peace and conflict research institute in Bonn. Trained in Social Sciences, East European, and Central Asian Studies, she was one of the initiators of the Germany-wide research network 'Crossroads Asia' for rethinking area studies. 

Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Dr. phil.) is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, as well as Head of Department of Social Sciences and of the Working Group 'Development and Knowledge Sociology' at the Leibniz-Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Germany. Trained in Sociology and Southeast Asian Studies, she scientifically coordinated 'Crossroads Asia' from 2012 to 2014 and was responsible for designing the networks strategy for synthesizing the conducted research. Today, she remains part of the Executive Board of the network.
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