Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies

Published by Duke University Press 2002

Learning Places

The Afterlives of Area Studies

Edited by: Masao Miyoshi , Harry Harootunian and Rey Chow

In the series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383598

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About this book

Examines the institutions and productions of area studies and explores what it takes to "learn a place."

Author / Editor information

At the time of his death in 2009, Masao Miyoshi was Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Harry Harootunian is Professor of East Asian Studies at New York University.

Reviews

“Area studies is in crisis, seemingly rendered marginal and anachronistic in a globalizing world. Yet, paradoxically, knowledge of histories, geographies, cultures, ecologies, and geopolitical tensions has become crucial if the public is to understand the dangers as well as the promises of globalization. Miyoshi and Harootunian here assemble a talented group of scholars to probe deeply into this contradiction. They convincingly argue that area studies needs to be completely revamped if not dissolved into new knowledge structures within the academy if it is to fulfill its mission. This challenges all of us to rethink disciplinary allegiances and past ways of knowing in critical as well as constructive ways.”—David Harvey, author of Spaces of Hope and Spaces of Capital

“Bringing together an unusually wide range of concerns, Learning Places offers a theoretical account of Asian area studies and a moral and political critique of past and recurrent practices of epistemic violence. The political urgency of this type of work makes this a timely collection. This important book opens up a series of debates that must be had between the new humanities, area studies, and the disciplines.”—Michael Dutton, editor of Streetlife China

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: The ‘‘Afterlife’’ of Area Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Ivory Tower in Escrow Masao Miyoshi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Ando Shoeki—‘‘The Forgotten Thinker’’ in Japanese History Tetsuo Najita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Objectivism and the Eradication of Critique in Japanese History Stefan Tanaka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism Rey Chow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Signs of Our Times: A Discussion of Homi Bhabha’s The Location of Culture Benita Parry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Postcoloniality’s Unconscious / Area Studies’ Desire H. D. Harootunian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Asian Exclusion Acts Sylvia Yanagisako Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Areas, Disciplines, and Ethnicity Richard H. Okada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Can American Studies Be Area Studies? Paul A. Bove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Imagining ‘‘Asia-Pacific’’ Today: Forgetting Colonialism in the Magical Free Markets of the American Pacific Rob Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War Bruce Cumings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
The Disappearance of Modern Japan: Japan and Social Science Bernard S. Silberman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Bad Karma in Asia Moss Roberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
From Politics to Culture: Modern Japanese Literary Studies in the Age of Cultural Studies James A. Fujii Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
Questions of Japanese Cinema: Disciplinary Boundaries and the Invention of the Scholarly Object Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	368
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 424

eBook

Published: November 15, 2002
ISBN: 9780822383598