Rethinking and transforming Area Studies and Indian Studies
A new cosmopolitanism and the challenges of planetary realisations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4742785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A K Giri (0000-0002-7090-0923, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 312-325 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00699667231152284 |
| OpenAlex | W4319979576 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
Area Studies was an important way of studying different parts of the world after the Second World War that was promoted by US-European academic establishments. This construction emerged after the end of the Second World War and reflected the geopolitical construction of the world into different areas. It formed part of the Cold War environment, applying American social science tools to regional analysis. This essay argues that we rethink and transform such a geopolitical construction of Area Studies. It suggests that we critically engage with the epistemologies of the Euro-American world that lie behind such Area Studies projects in order to transform Area Studies and consider the claims of cosmopolitanism and planetary conversations across borders
Cold war · Cosmopolitanism · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Geopolitics · Media studies · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · World order · World War II · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Area studies scholarship of Asia
Epistemologies of the South
Society and Politics in India
Dialogue Among Civilizations
Global Transformations
African philosophy and global epistemic injustice
Area Studies and the crisis of legitimacy
Autobiography of an archive
Lifeworlds and Living Words
With and Beyond Epistemologies from the South
Post-Chinese, Post-Western and Post-Asian Relations
Individualism and Equality [and Comments and Replies]
Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society
History's Forgotten Doubles
Constructing an Indian Ethnosociology
Science and Swaraj
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination
The Cosmopolitan Condition
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |