Asian Studies/Global Studies:

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" Asian Studies/Global Studies: "
Lie, John

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	912528
Doc. No	:	LA7cw2b7nf
Title & Author	:	Asian Studies/Global Studies:. Transcending Area Studies and Social Sciences [Article]\ Lie, John
Date	:	2012
Title of Periodical	:	UC Berkeley
Abstract	:	The post–World War II growth of area studies, and Asian studies in particular, posed a serious challenge to the mainstream social sciences. Yet the epistemic and institutional foundations of area studies were never well articulated or justified, and the post–Cold War years brought a pervasive sense of crisis to its intellectual mission and justification. In particular, the author focuses on the tensions, if not contradictions, between social science disciplines and area studies. In advocating a more integrated human science, which depends more on mobile networks of scholars than on fixed fields of discipline-bound professors, the author suggests global studies as a fitting field of inquiry in the age of globalization.