Learning Places

The Afterlives of Area Studies

Autor: Masao Miyoshi, Harry Harootunian

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Under globalisation, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, eth...

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Autor

Masao Miyoshi, Harry Harootunian

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2002

Pagini

424

EAN

9780822328261

ISBN

0822328267

Enbook ID

04937536

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

762

Dimensiuni

154 x 228 x 35

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Under globalisation, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in need of the rigorous re-examination that this volume and its distinguished contributors undertake. In the aftermath of World War II, area studies were created in large part to supply information on potential enemies of the United States. The essays in "Learning Places" argue, however, that the post-Cold War era has seen these programs largely degenerate into little more than public relations firms for the areas they research. A tremendous amount of money flows - particularly within the sphere of East Asian studies, the contributors claim - from foreign agencies and governments to U.S. universities to underwrite courses on their histories and societies.In the process, this volume argues, such funds have gone beyond support to the wholesale subsidisation of students in graduate programs, threatening the very integrity of research agendas. Native authority has been elevated to a position of primacy; Asian-born academics are presumed to be definitive commentators in Asian studies, for example. Area studies, the contributors believe, has outlived the original reason for its construction. The essays in this volume examine particular topics such as the development of cultural studies and hyphenated studies (such as African-American, Asian-American, Mexican-American) in the context of the failure of area studies, the corporatization of the contemporary university, the prehistory of postcolonial discourse, and the problematic impact of unformulated political goals on international activism."Learning Places" points to the necessity, the difficulty, and the possibility in higher education of breaking free from an entrenched Cold War narrative and making the study of a specific area part of the agenda of education generally. The book will appeal to all whose research has a local component, as well as to those interested in the future course of higher education generally.

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