Miyoshi / Harootunian / Chow Learning Places

The Afterlives of Area Studies
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8359-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Examines the institutions and productions of area studies and explores what it takes to "learn a place."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miyoshi, Masao

Harootunian, Harry

Chow, Rey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The “Afterlife” of Area Studies

Ivory Tower in Escrow / Masao Miyoshi

Ando Shoeki - “The Forgotten Thinker” in Japanese History / Tetsuo Najita

Objectivism and the Eradication of Critique in Japanese History / Stefan Tanaka

Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism / Rey Chow

Signs of Our Times: A Discussion of Homi Bhabha’s The Location of Culture / Benita Parry

Postcoloniality’s Unconscious / Area Studies’ Desire / H. D. Harootunian

Asian Exclusion Acts / Sylvia Yanagisako

Areas, Disciplines, and Ethnicity / Richard H. Okada

Can American Studies Be Area Studies? / Paul A. Bové

Imagining “Asia-Pacific” Today: Forgetting Colonialism in the Magical Free Markets of the American Pacific / Rob Wilson

Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War / Bruce Cumings

The Disappearance of Modern Japan: Japan and Social Science / Bernard S. Silberman

Bad Karma in Asia / Moss Roberts

From Politics to Culture: Modern Japanese Literary Studies in the Age of Cultural Studies / James A. Fujii

Questions of Japanese Cinema: Disciplinary Boundaries and the Invention of the Scholarly Object / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

At the time of his death in 2009, Masao Miyoshi was Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.Harry Harootunian is Professor of East Asian Studies at New York University.