{"product_id":"learning-places-9780822328407","title":"Learning Places","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the institutions and productions of area studies and explores what it takes to \"learn a place.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eSpaces of Hope and Spaces of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bringing together an unusually wide range of concerns, \u003ci\u003eLearning Places\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eStreetlife China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The “Afterlife” of Area Studies \u003cbr\u003e Ivory Tower in Escrow \/ Masao Miyoshi \u003cbr\u003e Ando Shoeki - “The Forgotten Thinker” in Japanese History \/ Tetsuo Najita \u003cbr\u003e Objectivism and the Eradication of Critique in Japanese History \/ Stefan Tanaka \u003cbr\u003e Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism \/ Rey Chow \u003cbr\u003e Signs of Our Times: A Discussion of Homi Bhabha’s \u003ci\u003eThe Location of Culture \/ \u003c\/i\u003eBenita Parry \u003cbr\u003e Postcoloniality’s Unconscious \/ Area Studies’ Desire \/ H. D. Harootunian \u003cbr\u003e Asian Exclusion Acts \/ Sylvia Yanagisako \u003cbr\u003e Areas, Disciplines, and Ethnicity \/ Richard H. Okada \u003cbr\u003e Can American Studies Be Area Studies? \/ Paul A. Bové \u003cbr\u003e Imagining “Asia-Pacific” Today: Forgetting Colonialism in the Magical Free Markets of the American Pacific \/ Rob Wilson \u003cbr\u003e Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War \/ Bruce Cumings \u003cbr\u003e The Disappearance of Modern Japan: Japan and Social Science \/ Bernard S. Silberman \u003cbr\u003e Bad Karma in Asia \/ Moss Roberts \u003cbr\u003e From Politics to Culture: Modern Japanese Literary Studies in the Age of Cultural Studies \/ James A. Fujii \u003cbr\u003e Questions of Japanese Cinema: Disciplinary Boundaries and the Invention of the Scholarly Object \/ Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577676599639,"sku":"9780822328407","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822328407.jpg?v=1746096130","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/learning-places-9780822328407","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}