Localizing knowledge in a globalizing world : recasting the area studies debate / edited by Ali Mirsepassi, Amrita Basu, and Frederick Weaver.

Other author Mirsepassi, Ali.
Other author Basu, Amrita, 1953-
Other author Weaver, Frederick Stirton, 1939-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoSyracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003.
Descriptionxiii, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Pt. 1. Rethinking local-global connections. American baroque / Doris Sommer ; Place, nature, and culture in discourses of globalization / Arturo Escobar ; The disappearing local: rethinking global-local connections / Angelique Haugerud ; Globalizing local women's movements / Amrita Basu ; Asserting the local as national in the face of the global: the ambivalence of authenticity in Egyptian soap opera / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Pt. 2. In a world of uncertain places, where are area studies? Why area studies? / David Ludden ; The multiple worlds of African studies / Sandra E. Greene ; Deterritorialization and the crisis of social science / Timothy Mitchell ; The Middle East as an area in an era of globalization / Rashid I. Khalidi -- Pt. 3. Globalization and the area studies debate. Culture against history? the politics of East Asian identity / Arif Dirlik ; Knowledge, place, and power: a critique of globalization / Eqbal Ahmad.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-253) and index.
LCCN 2002151021
ISBN081562963X (alk. paper)
ISBN0815629826 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks JZ1318 .L63 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold