META about Area Studies

cover4The latest issue of the journal META (4/2015; Middle East – Topics & Arguments) focuses on Area Studies. Based on the observation that  the concept of Area Studies has witnessed a remarkable renaissance in Germany in recent years. As in
regionally focused institutes and centers all over the country the editores, Ines Braune and Achim Rhode, ask what the challenges for a critical area studies approach in the face of ongoing processes of globalization, and specifically with regard to Middle East studies, the impact of the Arab uprisings of 2011 and subsequent developments are. This issue wants to broaden the discussion regarding how and to what extent the institutionalization of knowledge production shapes its content because “knowledge production on the contemporary MENA region remains a contested discursive field in which a variety of players jockey for influence.”

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Forum Transregionale Studien (2015, 26. Mai). META about Area Studies. TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research. Abgerufen am 28. März 2024, von https://doi.org/10.58079/usgn

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The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien promotes the internationalization of research in the humanities and social sciences. It provides scope for collaboration among researchers with different regional and disciplinary perspectives and appoints researchers from all over the world as Fellows. More...

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