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Learning Places – The Afterlives of Area Studies: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Autor Masao Miyoshi, Harry Harootunian
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2002
Under globalisation, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in need of the rigorous re-examination that this volume and its distinguished contributors undertake. In the aftermath of World War II, area studies were created in large part to supply information on potential enemies of the United States. The essays inLearning Places argue, however, that the post-Cold War era has seen these programs largely degenerate into little more than public relations firms for the areas they research.A tremendous amount of money flows - particularly within the sphere of East Asian studies, the contributors claim - from foreign agencies and governments to U.S. universities to underwrite courses on their histories and societies. In the process, this volume argues, such funds have gone beyond support to the wholesale subsidisation of students in graduate programs, threatening the very integrity of research agendas. Native authority has been elevated to a position of primacy; Asian-born academics are presumed to be definitive commentators in Asian studies, for example. Area studies, the contributors believe, has outlived the original reason for its construction. The essays in this volume examine particular topics such as the development of cultural studies and hyphenated studies (such as African-American, Asian-American, Mexican-American) in the context of the failure of area studies, the corporatization of the contemporary university, the prehistory of postcolonial discourse, and the problematic impact of unformulated political goals on international activism.Learning Places points to the necessity, the difficulty, and the possibility in higher education of breaking free from an entrenched Cold War narrative and making the study of a specific area part of the agenda of education generally. The book will appeal to all whose research has a local component, as well as to those interested in the future course of higher education generally.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822328407
ISBN-10: 0822328402
Pagini: 424
Dimensiuni: 153 x 233 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society


Cuprins

Introduction1. Masao Miyoshi, “Ivory Tower in Escrow”2. Tetsuo Najita, “Ando Shoeki--‘The Forgotten Thinker’ Japanese History”3. Stefan Tanaka, “Objectivism and Eradication of Critique in Japanese History”4. Rey Chow, “Theory, Area Studies, Cultural: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism”5. Benita Parry, “Signs of Our Times: A Discussion of Homi Bhabha’s ‘The Location of Culture”6. Harry Harootunian, “Postcoloniality’s Unconscious/Area Studies’ Desire Sylvia Yanagisako, “Asian Exclusion Acts”7. Richard H. Okada, “Areas, Disciplines, and Ethnicity”8. Paul A. Bové, “Can American Studies be Area Studies”9. Rob Wilson, “Imagining ‘Asia-Pacific’ Today: Forgetting Colonialism in the Magical Free Markets of the American Pacific”10. Bruce Cumings, “Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations and Area Studies During and After the Cold War11. Bernard S. Silberman, “The Disappearance of Modern Japan: Japan and Social Science”12. Moss Roberts, “Bad Karma in Asia”13. James A. Fujii, “From Politics to Culture: Modern Japanese Literary Studies in the Age of Cultural Studies”Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, “Questions of Japanese Cinema: Disciplinary Boundaries and Invention of Scholarly Object”

Recenzii

"Area studies is in crisis, seemingly rendered marginal and anachronistic in a globalising world. Yet, paradoxically, knowledge of histories, geographies, cultures, ecologies and geopolitical tensions has become crucial if the public is to understand the dangers as well as the promises of globalisation. Miyoshi and Harootunian here assemble a talented group of scholars to probe deeply into this contradiction. They convincingly argue that area studies needs to be completely re-vamped if not dissolved into new knowledge structures within the academy if it is to fulfil its mission. This challenges all of us to re-think disciplinary allegiances and past ways of knowing in critical as well as constructive ways."-David Harvey, author of Spaces of Hope and Spaces of Capital

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"Bringing together an unusually wide range of concerns, "Learning Places" offers a theoretical account of Asian area studies and a moral and political critique of past and recurrent practices of epistemic violence. The political urgency of this type of work makes this a timely collection. This important book opens up a series of debates that must be had between the new humanities, area studies, and the disciplines."--Michael Dutton, editor of "Streetlife China"

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Examines the institutions and productions of area studies and explores what it takes to "learn a place."