Country Studies
A Team with No Coach? Problems of Composition, Methodology and Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11736133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | А И Трейвиш (0000-0002-6687-577X, Institute of Geography, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 26-42 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Outlines of global transformations politics economics law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2542-0240 • E-ISSN: 2587-9324 |
| Publisher | Ассоциация независимых экспертов «Центр изучения кризисного общества» (in English: Association for independent experts “Center for Crisis Society Studies”) (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.23932/2542-0240-2021-14-6-2 |
| OpenAlex | W4223889816 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
The article raises and discusses six “provocative” questions about country studies in order to review, once more, its headings, facilities and, above all, its problems. The questions are as follows: (1) A discipline lacking its exact name, object and composition? (2) A science or...? (implicitly, not just science); (3) A theory-free science? (4) С ountry or state? (the question of the key object); (5) Degeneration or regeneration? (the nature of the evolution); and (6) Who and why needs it? (the fields of application). The answers are ambiguous and open to criticism. A finding from the reviewed problems of country studies is that they are numerous and serious. This is a truly interdisciplinary squad composed “from geology to ideology”, lacking a head coach, owner or even an internationally proprietary name, with a goal depending on the type (genre) of activity: research, informational, promotional or educational. Country studies as a science lacks clear understanding of its object, as well as its own theory (simplified reductions excluded), and self-confidence resulting in frequent tacks and relabeling. At the same time, its role is still great not as an “idiographer” and collector of any country information, but as a laboratory for searching and checking new development trends. The demand for a country scholar in the shape of a social order, not always explicit, is diverse and relatively stable. Hence the diagnosis: the patient is more alive than dead, and unlikely to die in the near future
Business · Composition (language · Criticism · Epistemology · Ideology · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Globalization and political ideologies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |