Resisting terror, resisting empire The evolving ethos of American Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852104 |
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| Authors | Kousar J Azam (Osmania University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-174 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1477570004042983 |
| OpenAlex | W2068213696 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The internationalization of American Studies is a reflection of its evolution from provincialism into a new regionalism. This raises the question of coping with the transnational while problematizing the national, thus landing American Studies in the welter of globalization both as a process and as a discourse. The global engagements of the US have produced global anti-Americanism. Terror in conjunction with globalization appears to have subsumed all other discourses in our times. To pursue American Studies in an environment of terror becomes more complicated by the fact that America itself is perceived by many as a source of global terrorism, evoking the chimera of the return of empire as envisaged in the recent work of Hardt and Negri. Resistance to the global reach of the American Empire and a global percolation of terror appear to be the two most crucial intellectual concerns of American Studies at the moment
Empire · Ethos · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Terrorism · Academic Freedom and Politics · American History and Culture · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Highly cited | No |
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