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The essays in this collection entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure ""area-based knowledge"" to respond to social sciences and globalization. The authors demonstrate that local knowledge is vital to understanding rapidly changing global patterns.

Table of Contents
  • American Baroque, Doris Sommer
  • "Place, Nature, and Culture in Discourses of Globalization," Arturo Escobar
  • "The Disappearing Local: Rethinking Global/Local Connections," Angelique Haugerud
  • "Globalizing the Local, Localizing the Global: Mapping Transnational Women's Activism," Amrita Basu,
  • "Asserting the Local National in the Face of the Global: The Case of Egyptian Soap Opera," Lila Abu-Lughod
  • "Why Area Studies?" David Ludden
  • "The Multiple Worlds of African Studies," Sandra Greene
  • "Deterritorialization and the Crisis of Social Science," Tim Mitchell
  • "The Middle East as an Area in an Era of Globalization," Rashid Khalid
  • "No Longer Far Away: The Reconfiguration of Global Relations
  • and Its Challenges to Area Studies," Arif Dirlik
  • "Knowledge, Place, and Power: A Critique of Globalization," Eqbal Ahmad

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      Publisher: MP-SYR Syracuse University P
      Publication Date: 1/30/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780815629825, 978-0815629825
      ISBN10: 0815629826

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The essays in this collection entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure ""area-based knowledge"" to respond to social sciences and globalization. The authors demonstrate that local knowledge is vital to understanding rapidly changing global patterns.

      Table of Contents
      • American Baroque, Doris Sommer
      • "Place, Nature, and Culture in Discourses of Globalization," Arturo Escobar
      • "The Disappearing Local: Rethinking Global/Local Connections," Angelique Haugerud
      • "Globalizing the Local, Localizing the Global: Mapping Transnational Women's Activism," Amrita Basu,
      • "Asserting the Local National in the Face of the Global: The Case of Egyptian Soap Opera," Lila Abu-Lughod
      • "Why Area Studies?" David Ludden
      • "The Multiple Worlds of African Studies," Sandra Greene
      • "Deterritorialization and the Crisis of Social Science," Tim Mitchell
      • "The Middle East as an Area in an Era of Globalization," Rashid Khalid
      • "No Longer Far Away: The Reconfiguration of Global Relations
      • and Its Challenges to Area Studies," Arif Dirlik
      • "Knowledge, Place, and Power: A Critique of Globalization," Eqbal Ahmad

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