Geography, Globalization, and the Problematic of Area Studies

There has been considerable debate about the challenges and opportunities posed for geographical scholarship by globalization. In similar contexts, however, the discipline's relationship to area studies merits careful review and reworking. Three prospective pathways through this are presented h...

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Published in:Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2013-07, Vol.103 (4), p.984-1002
Main Author: Sidaway, James D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic discipline
Area studies
Cold wars
comparative method
Debates
estudios de área
Ethnographic studies
Geographic regions
Geography
Geography education
Geopolitics
globalización
Globalization
Human geography
Languages
método comparativo
Orientalism
orientalismo
People, Place, and Region
Political debate
poscolonialismo
Postcolonialism
Translation
东方主义
全球化
区域研究
后殖民主义
比较方法
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Summary:There has been considerable debate about the challenges and opportunities posed for geographical scholarship by globalization. In similar contexts, however, the discipline's relationship to area studies merits careful review and reworking. Three prospective pathways through this are presented here: the status of geographical knowledge in the aftermath of the critique of orientalism and associated postcolonial departures, debates about language and translation, and attention to the situatedness and operation of perspective in geographical imaginations. Charting these tracks, the article notes obstacles and highlights opportunities.
ISSN:0004-5608
2469-4452
1467-8306
2469-4460
DOI:10.1080/00045608.2012.660397