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Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debate - Mirsepassi, Ali (Editor), and Basu, Amrita (Editor), and Weaver, Frederick (Editor)
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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 ...

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Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debate 2003, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse

ISBN-13: 9780815629634

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Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debate 2003, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse

ISBN-13: 9780815629825

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