Area Studies at the Crossroads
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Area Studies at the Crossroads

Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn

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eBook - PDF

Area Studies at the Crossroads

Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Area Studies at the Crossroads by Katja Mielke, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Katja Mielke,Anna-Katharina Hornidge in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & American Government. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Foreword: A Third Wave of Area Studies
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. Notes on Contributors
  5. List of Figures
  6. Part I: Area Studies at the Crossroads
  7. Part II: To Be or Not to Be Is Not the Question. Rethinking Area Studies in Its Own Right
  8. Part III: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn
  9. Part IV: From Local Realities to Concepts and Theorizing
  10. Part V: De-Streamlining Academic Society: Pedagogy and Teaching
  11. Part VI: Anticipating the Future of Area Studies
  12. Index