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Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debate (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)
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Paperback. The essays in this collection entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure "area-based knowledge" to respond to social sciences and globalization. The authors demonstrate that local knowledge is vital to understanding rapidly changing global patterns. Editor(s): Mirsepassi, Ali; Basu, Amrita; Weaver, Frederick S. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 240 pages, notes, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFFS; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
These works entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure ""area-based knowledge"" to respond to social sciences and globalization. The essays in this collection address the current crisis in area studies, a crisis that differs from its perennial struggle with the established academic disciplines. This crisis stems from the confluence of three related circumstances: the end of the Cold War; greater economic and cultural fluidity across political borders; and contradictory intellectual trends in the academy, which include on the one hand a renaissance of universalizing thinking in the social sciences and on the other hand, the rise of post-colonial studies ... Read more
These works entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure ""area-based knowledge"" to respond to social sciences and globalization. The essays in this collection address the current crisis in area studies, a crisis that differs from its perennial struggle with the established academic disciplines. This crisis stems from the confluence of three related circumstances: the end of the Cold War; greater economic and cultural fluidity across political borders; and contradictory intellectual trends in the academy, which include on the one hand a renaissance of universalizing thinking in the social sciences and on the other hand, the rise of post-colonial studies ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815629825
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V9780815629825
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