african studies
area studies
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central european studies
chinese studies
domestic constituencies
eastern european studies
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global area and international archive series
heterogeneity
humanities
international politics
japanese studies
latin american studies
middle eastern studies
political implications
post soviet studies
regional identity
regions of the world
social science
social sciences
south asian studies
southeast asian studies
soviet area studies
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- ISBN 9780520245365
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2004
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
David L. Szanton worked for many years at the Ford Foundation and the Social Science Research Council before coming to the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as the Executive Director of International and Area Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.
