CMNS 445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Area Studies, Religious Studies, Eurocentrism
20 Feb 2017
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1. economy- is the most important thing, we need to survive. Area studies: interdisciplinary elds of research and scholarship, including a particular geographical, national, regional, or cultural ex: New con gurations to substitute for earlier area studies. Two developments provide the conditions for the emergence to visibility of new areas(paci c-rim: the end of the cold war, the de-centering of a globalized capitalism by the appearance of new centers of economic power. The teaching of foreign languages > intensive reading into diverse texts and histories. Specialized not in region but individual societies > civilization means the understanding of regions. Homogeneous in scholarships or politics > areas serve as sites of con icts as much as unity. Civilization studies : contemporary developments have placed the issue of civilization on the agenda due to septs. 11. Against us domination of scholarship: asia insider"s views of asian problems and scholarship. Diasporic spaces cut cross nations, regions and oceans.
