Area studies in the global age : community, place, identity / edited by Edith W. Clowes and Shelly Jarrett Bromberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clowes, Edith W., editor.

Bromberg, Shelly Jarrett, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Area studies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, [2016]

Summary:

This interdisciplinary volume is a new introduction to area studies in the framework of whole-world thinking. Having emerged in the United Stat after World War II, contemporary area studies serve two main purposes: to equip future experts with rich cultural-historical and political-economic knowledge of a world area in its global context and to provide well-founded analyses of a vast array of communities. Area Studies in the Global Age examines the interrelation between three constructions central to any culture-community, place, and identity-and builds on research by scholars specializing in diverse world areas, including Africa; Central, East, and North Asia; Eastern and East Central Europe; and Latin America. The studies featured here argue for the importance of understanding particular human experience and the effects of global changes on real people's lives. The rituals, narratives, symbols, and archetypes that define a community, as well as the spaces to which communities attach meaning, are crucial to members' self-perception and sense of agency. Editors Edith W. Clowes and Shelly Jarrett Bromberg have put into practice the original mission of US area studies, which were intended to employ both social science and humanities research methods. This important study presents and applies a variety of methodologies, including interviews and surveys; the analysis of public rituals, symbols, and spaces, including monuments, parks, neighborhoods, and cities; and the close reading and interpretation of fiction and art in their political contexts. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Area studies after several "turns" / Edith W. Clowes and Shelly Jarrett Bromberg

Reclaiming the national narrative : Authority and liminal identities

Understanding Taiwan's colonial past : using history to define Taiwan's 21st century identity / J. Megan Greene

Patriot or saint? The resurrection of a Soviet hero and post-Soviet identity / Adrienne M. Harris

History and memory in an African context : a case study of Robben Island / Elizabeth MacGonagle

"Ten million trujillos is all we are" : Dominican identity beyond the Trujillato / Shelly Jarrett Bromberg

Borders within : regional communities and resistant identities

Urbanization and urban villages : institutional factors and social identity in urban China / Dan Chen and John James Kennedy

Place, scale, and self-reliance : Issues of identity and community in contemporary Siberia / Edith W. Clowes

The post-Soviet North Caucasus : factors of contemporary ethno-national identity and community / Austen Thelen

Civil society and its discontents : freedom of religion, human rights, and free speech

The multiple faces of Islamic rebirth in Central Asia / Marita Y. Omelicheya

Solidarity, human rights, and the poetics of connection : articulating community in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and her children and Lynn Nottage's Ruined / Marike Janzen

The art of making community : Lia Perjovschi's CAA/CAA (Contemporary Art Archive/Center for Art Analysis) and the Knowledge Museum / Corina Apostol

Street art contra police abuse : exposing police power in post-Soviet Russia / Patrick Callen

Legacies of empire and shifting North-South communities

Community, identity, and space in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Sarah L. Smiley

The United States confronts a new Latin American community after the Cold War / Walt Vanderbush

Ozbekchilik as an ethno-symbolist construct : articulating the ethnie in Uzbekistan / Reuel R. Hanks

Afterword: Creating a community of Area studies in a changing world / Ayșe Zarakol.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Area studies in the global age

ISBN:

9780875807270

0875807275

OCLC:

910980974