Necessary Travel : New Area Studies and Canada in Comparative Perspective
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 182633671
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Lexington Press USA
- ISBN
- 978-1-4985-4514-3
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This volume challenges the idea that Area Studies is in inevitable terminal decline. Susan Hodgett and Patrick James (International Relations, University of Southern California) are leading Area Studies scholars at the forefront of a global conversation on the future of the field. They present introductory and closing chapters mapping out the need for a “new” area studies across disciplines between the arts and humanities, the social sciences and the sciences. They champion the importance of interdisciplinary research working with local people to solve real-world problems and present leading global scholars engaged with contemplating ground-breaking definitions of Area Studies, its development on different continents, its relations with the disciplines, its traditional Eurocentric ontology and epistemology, to present a wider and deeper definition of the field. Contributors consider the crisis of Area Studies from the mid-1980s through the end of the millennium eschewing the notion that Area Studies is a discredited, descriptive, policy-orientated, narrow geographical specialisation with a murky colonial past. Rather, this volume asserts the outcome of a process of painful reflexive professional practice, and the need for Area Studies to better understand peoples, cultures and places comprehensively and comparatively in an era of rapid social and technological change. Working with contributors, Hodgett and James address parochialism and the needs of non-elite communities, to create research methods fit to gather real world information. Hodgett sought contributors and co-edited chapters through iterations with individual authors. She fore-fronted disseminating ideas on a new area studies with professional associations (UKCASA, ACSUS), governments, think tanks and academics in North America and the UK. She discussed a New Area Studies with AHRC-OWRI at Manchester University (2018) sparking a lively global conversation on the future of the field- and the establishment of an innovative interdisciplinary journal, co-edited by Hodgett, and hosted at UEA, entitled New Area Studies.
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- Non-English
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