Knowledge production, area studies and global cooperation / Claudia Derichs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derichs, Claudia, author.

Series:

Routledge global cooperation series.

Routledge Global Cooperation Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Area studies--Methodology.

Area studies.

Intellectual cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

Whereas Area Studies and cross-border cooperation research conventionally demarcates groups of people by geographical boundaries, individuals might in fact feel more connected by shared values and principles than by conventional spatial dimensions. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation asks what norms and principles lead to the creation of knowledge about cross-border cooperation and connection. It studies why theories, methods, and concepts originate in one place rather than another, how they travel, and what position the scholar adopts while doing research, particularly 'in the field'. Taking case studies from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, the book links the production of alternative epistemologies to the notion of global cooperation and reassesses the ways in which the concept of connectedness can be applied at the translocal and individual rather than the formal international and collective level. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation provides an innovative and critical approach towards established means of producing knowledge about different areas of the world, demonstrating that an understanding of pluri-local connectivity should be integrated into the production of knowledge about different areas of the world and the behavioural dimension of global cooperation. By shifting the view from the collective to the individual and from the formal to often invisible patterns of connectedness, this book provides an important fresh perspective which will be of interest to scholars and students of Area Studies, Politics, International Relations and Development Studies.

Contents:

part, I Alternative epistemologies

chapter 1 Introduction

Knowledge production, Area Studies, and global cooperation

chapter 2 The Islamisation of Knowledge

chapter 3 Review

Spill-over and diffusion

chapter 4 Empirical case studies

Islamic economy and Islamic feminism

part, II Areas and pluri-locality

chapter 5 At home away from home (emotional geographies)

chapter 6 Tunnel vision in Area Studies

chapter 7 Connectivity and cooperation

Concluding thoughts.

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 18, 2017).

ISBN:

1-138-18875-1

1-317-28207-8

1-315-64212-3

1-317-28206-X

9781315642123

OCLC:

984993299