THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE by David L. Szanton (Editor) ( 9780520245365 )

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THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE
AREA STUDIES AND THE DISCIPLINES

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David L. Szanton (Editor)

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0520245369

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

20 September, 2004

Series:

Global, Area, and International Archive

Pages:

435

Synopsis:

The usefulness and political implications of Area Studies programs are currently debated within the Academy and the Administration, where they are often treated as one homogenous and stagnant domain of scholarship. The essays in this volume document the various fields' distinctive character and internal heterogeneity as well as the dynamism resulting from their evolving engagements with funders, US and international politics, and domestic constituencies. The authors were chosen for their long-standing interest in the intellectual evolution of their fields. They describe the origins and histories of US-based Area Studies programs, highlighting their complex, generative, and sometimes contentious relationships with the social science and humanities disciplines and their diverse contributions to the regions of the world with which they are concerned.

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