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Author:   Katja Mielke ,  Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Weight:   0.506kg
ISBN:  

9781349958900

ISBN 10:   1349958905
Pages:   363
Publication Date:   12 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I Area Studies at the Crossroads.- 1. Introduction: Knowledge Production, Area Studies and the Mobility Turn.- 2. The Neoliberal University and Global Immobilities of Theory.- II To Be or Not to Be Is Not the Question. Rethinging Area Studies in Its Own Right.- 3. Doing Area Studies in the Americas and Beyond. Towards Reciprocal Methodologies and the Decolonization of Knowledge.- 4. Area Studies @ Southeast Asia: Alternative Areas vs Alternatives to Areas.- 5. Between Ignoring and Romanticizing: The Position of Area Studies in Policy Advice.- III Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn.- 6. Positionality and the Relational Production of Place in the Context of Student Migration to Gilgit, Pakistan.- 7. Red Lines for Uncivilized Trade?: Fixity, Mobility and Positionality on Almaty's Changing Bazaars.- 8. Margins or Centre? Konkani Sufis, India and 'Arabastan'.- IV From Local Realities to Concepts and Theorizing.- 9. The Role of Area Studies in Theory Production. A Differentiation of Mid-Range Concepts and the Example of Social Order.- 10. The Production of Knowledge in the Field of Development and Area Studies: From Systems of Ignorance to Mid-Range Concepts for Global Ethnography.- 11. New Area Studies, Translation and Mid-Range Concepts.- 12. Mid-Range Concepts - The Lego Bricks of Meaning-Making. An Example from Khorezm, Uzbekistan.- V De-Streamlining Academic Society: Pedagogy and Teaching.- 13. The Case for Reconceptualizing Southeast Asian Studies.- 14. This Area is [Not] Under Quarantine: Rethinking Southeast/Asia through Studies of the Cinema.- 15. Teaching to Transgress: Crossroads Perspective and Adventures in (?)-Disciplinarity.- VI Anticipating the Future of Area Studies.- 16. Are Transregional Studies the Future of Area Studies?.- 17. Reflecting the Moving Target of Asia.- 18. The Art of Science Policy for 21st Century Area Studies: Concluding Reflections

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Area Studies at the Crossroads can be recommended for any scholars (and institutional libraries) working not only in Asian/ Southeast Studies but also area studies generally. (Paul Vickers, Connections, May 16, 2020)

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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 Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, as well as Head of Department of Social Sciences and of the Working Group ‘Development and Knowledge Sociology’ at the Leibniz-Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Germany. Trained in Sociology and Southeast Asian Studies, she scientifically coordinated ‘Crossroads Asia’ from 2012 to 2014 and was responsible for designing the networks strategy for synthesizing the conducted research. Today, she remains part of the Executive Board of the network.

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