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Area Studies at the Crossroads: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn
Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Ed.)
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Description for Area Studies at the Crossroads: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn
Hardback. Editor(s): Hornidge, Anna-Katharina. Num Pages: 363 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, 6 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPB; JPS; RGCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 632.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
631g
Number of Pages
363
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349950119
SKU
V9781349950119
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99-15
About Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Ed.)
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 ... Read more
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