The politics of knowledge : area studies and the disciplines /
edited by David Szanton.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
- ix, 425 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Latin American studies : theory and practice / Paul W. Drake and Lisa Hilbink -- The Middle East in the past and future of social science / Timothy Mitchell -- Area studies in search of Africa / Pearl T. Robinson -- Japanese studies : the intangible act of translation / Alan Tansman -- Soviet and post-Soviet area studies / Victoria E. Bonnell and George W. Breslauer -- Eastern Europe or Central Europe? Exploring a distinct regional identity / Ellen Comisso and Brad Gutierrez -- The transformation of contemporary China studies, 1977-2002 / Andrew G. Walder -- South Asian studies : futures past / Nicholas B. Dirks -- The development of Southeast Asian studies in the United States / John Bowen.