Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World by Ali Mirsepassi
These works entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure area-based knowledge to respond to social sciences and globalization. The essays in this collection address the current crisis in area studies, a crisis that differs from its perennial struggle with the established academic disciplines. This crisis stems from the confluence of three related circumstances: the end of the Cold War; greater economic and cultural fluidity across political borders; and contradictory intellectual trends in the academy, which include on the one hand a renaissance of universalizing thinking in the social sciences and on the other hand, the rise of post-colonial studies and debates about modernity, postmodernity, and cultural hybridization. Although the essays differ markedly in their focus and strategies, the authors all demonstrate that local knowledge, including serious study of individual cultures and proficiency in foreign languages, which are vital to understanding rapidly changing global patterns and to countering universal claims by the social sciences. While the authors also agree that area studies must reject their enthnocentric heritages and adopt inventive new contours, they pr
Mirsepassi, Ali: - Ali Mirsepassi is Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and director of the Iranian Studies Initiative at New York University. He is the co-editor, with Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, of The Global Middle East, a book series published by Cambridge University Press, and the author of Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought (Cambridge, 2017), Political Islam, Iran and Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2011), Democracy in Modern Iran (2010) and Intellectual Discourses and Politics of Modernization (Cambridge, 2000). He also co-authored, with Tadd Fernee, Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism (Cambridge, 2014). He was a 2007-09 Carnegie Scholar and has received several awards, including a 2001 Best Researcher of the Year Award, a teaching award from Tehran University, and 2014 Award for Outstanding Service from the Institute for International Education Scholar Rescue Fund.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780815629825 |
| ISBN 10 | 0815629826 |
| Title | Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World |
| Author | Ali Mirsepassi |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
| Year published | 2003-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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