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Recent, unpredictable incidents in diverse locations - Paris, Nice, Ankara, Sinai, California, Manchester and London - reinforce how governments and scholars must look beneath the surface for understanding of the turbulent post-9/11world. In particular, what does 'expertise' mean in this new era? This book answers that question? The volume is about a particular kind of expert - a type suffering from 'bad press' for a long time - namely, scholars who carry out area-based research. The term 'expert' itself even comes in for some humor about how it might be defined - someone who knows more and more, about less and less, until eventually they know everything about nothing. Behind the old joke is a grain of truth: Expert standing becomes unimpressive to us, in both intellectual and practical terms, when it is seen as parochial and lacking in vision.
This volume will explore Area Studies (AS), a prominent type of expertise, along a range of dimensions. As we move towards the third decade in the new millennium, attention shifts to the somewhat unexpectedly positive future of New Area Studies (NAS) as a resurgent intellectual movement. NAS has departed from what the editors have dubbed Traditional Area Studies (TAS) - commonplace till the millennium. Both the editors of this volume, and its contributors, are leading scholars in area-based work across continents. Together they have participated and observed as area-oriented research struggled to overcome protracted and intense criticism since the Cold War. Thus, the volume marks the resurgence of area-based research in its new guise as NAS - the crux - understanding increasing complexity around a shrinking globe.
Taken together, the contents of this volume make the the case for a New Area Studies grounded in necessary travel, using new and wider methodologies involving reflective practice and production of knowledge with local people. It argues the necessity of such broad and deep approaches in order to appreciate what is going on in the world in the 21st century and to help us see off the arrival of more and increasingly nasty unpredictable shocks.
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Part I - Overview
Chapter 1 Introduction: Context - Theorizing the New Area Studies
Susan Hodgett, and Patrick James
Part II - New Area Studies Around the Globe
Chapter 2 New Area Studies in the Borderlands of Asia
Mandy Sadan
Chapter 3 New Area Studies, the Problem of Russia and 'Recursive Nationhood'
Stephen Hutchings
Chapter 4 Area Studies as Refugee Studies
Peter Gatrell
Chapter 5 Latin American Studies: What Have We Achieved and Where are We Heading?
Christopher Sabatini, and Nicolas Albertoni Gomez
Chapter 6 Mastering the Current. Studying Central Asia in the 21st Century
Claus Bech Hansen
Chapter 7 Muslim World Studies or Middle East Studies?
Rob Gleave
Chapter 8 Blurring the Boundaries of History and Fiction: Re-imagining the Past and Re-defining the Present through the Lens of Saudi Women Novelists
Zahia Smail Salhi and Ibrahim A. I. Alfraih
Part III - Canada in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 9 TransArea Studies: Gendered Mobility in North American Literature
Caroline Rosenthal
Chapter 10 Area and Circus Studies: The Case of and for a Boundary Crossing Quebec
Charles R. Batson
Chapter 11 Figurations of the Border and New Area Studies
Claude Denis with Abdelkarim Amengay
Chapter 12 The State Against Canadian Studies
Colin Coates
Part IV - Reflections on New Area Studies
Chapter 13 What Have We Learned?
Susan Hodgett, and Patrick James
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