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 and debates about modernity, postmodernity, and cultural
hybridization.
Although the essays differ markedly in their focus and
strategies, the authors all demonstrate that local knowledge,
including serious study of individual cultures and proficiency in
foreign languages, which are vital to understanding rapidly
changing global patterns and to countering universal claims by the
social sciences. While the authors also agree that area studies
must reject their enthnocentric heritages and adopt inventive new
contours, they present a diversity of ideas for creating vigorous
and valuable curricula and research in area studies.
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