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The Politics of Knowledge

Area Studies and the Disciplines
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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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
September 20th, 2004
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by David Szanton
Pages
435
Dimensions
152x229x25
ISBN-13
9780520245365
Product ID
7699197

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