What about Asia? : revisiting Asian studies / edited by Josine Stremmelaar and Paul van der Velde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stremmelaar, Josine.

Velde, Paul van der.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--Study and teaching (Higher).

Asia.

Physical Description:

107 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2006.

Summary:

What about Asia? Revisiting Asian Studies brings together scholars from Asia, Europe and America to test the strength of a field of study which, considering the rise of Asia, should be gaining momentum. But is it? This is one of the many questions that the contributors to this volume ask themselves. In the past decade the use and legitimacy of area studies, and in particular Asian studies, have been passionately debated in conferences and academic journals. What about Asia? gives the current state of the debate on Asian studies by tackling the issue from a multiregional and interdisciplinary perspective.

Contents:

What about Asia? Revisiting Asian studies / Josine Stremmelaar and Paul van der Velde

Asian studies and the discourse of the human sciences / Gananath Obeyesekere

Area studies in a changing world / Peter van der Veer

Asia as a form of knowledge : of analyses, (re)production, and consumption / Shamsul A. B.

'A little knowledge is a useful thing' : paradoxes in the Asian studies experience in Australia / Robert Cribb

The ebb and flow of ASEM studies / Yeo Lay Hwee

Re-orienting Asian studies / Paul van der Velde.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9053569596

9789053569597

OCLC:

106018642