... GENDERED CARTOGRAPHIES OF KNOWLEDGE Area Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Postcolonial Studies When gender is invoked outside of ‘‘Western’’ spaces, it is often subjected in the academy to a (inter...

...3 Business Philanthropy in the Greater Cleveland Area Diversity in this town means that you can find forty polka bands playing on Friday night. A sta√ member at the Cleveland Foundation made the above statement, suggesting that references to diversity in Cleveland often refer...

... I the age of the world target s Atomic Bombs,s Alterity, Area Studies They did not want to risk wasting the precious weapon, and decided that it must be dropped visually and not...

...4 Progressive Philanthropy in the San Francisco Bay Area As goes California, so goes the nation. A sta√ member at the San Francisco Foundation made the above quip, echoing an idea popular in California that the Golden State had surpassed its earlier status as the...

... Mary Ann Mahony A Past to Do Justice to the Present: Collective Memory, Historical Representation, and Rule in Bahia’s Cacao Area ᭢ Elite identity and concerns about legitimacy have...

... SUSAN KOSHY The Postmodern Subaltern Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area, and Postcolonial Studies Studies of globalization have announced their significance in terms of a paradigmatic break from the constraints of...

... 2 Gathering Together in Hubs: Claiming Home and the Sacred in an Urban Area The Indian people continue to do what they always did: gathering, getting together-we will always congregate together. That is just our way.-SamJones, Lakota, Stanford...

... AREA STUDIES/ASIAN STUDIES The Trick of Words: Asian Studies, Translation, and the Problems of Knowledge michael dutton begin this work with a simple question: Why is it impossible to imagine, much...

...Introduction: The ‘‘Afterlife’’ of Area Studies H. D. Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi As globalization thickens, the site of research grows increasingly mobile. That means that the sponsors, practices, and products of research, too, are no longer confined to the locale where a given project in...

...Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism Rey Chow I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. Increas- ingly, those students are being taken over by the astonishing garbage called ‘‘cultural criti- cismHarold...

...Postcoloniality’s Unconscious/Area Studies’ Desire H. D. Harootunian It is hard to know what more can or even should be said about the status of post- colonial discourse and theory these days. So many books, articles, journals, criti- cism, and countercriticism devoted to it have appeared...

...Can American Studies Be Area Studies? Paul A. Bove´ The simplest answer to this question is ‘‘No Area studies has existed to provide authoritative knowledge to the state, specifically the government and its policy- makers, to enable the state to expand its power and to defend its interests...

...Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War Bruce Cumings It is a curious fact of academic history that the first great center of area studies . . . [was] in the Office of Strategic ServicesItisstilltruetoday, and I hope it always will be...

... War and a Swiss mother. She joins the fictive Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (nnsc;comprised of Swiss and Swedish delegates) in the politically sensitive area of Panmun- jŏm, a symbol of divided Korea in the Joint Security Area. The commission is investigating a shooting rampage that left...

... ANNA MCCARTHY THE RHYTHMS OF THE RECEPTION AREA: CRISIS, CAPITALISM, AND THE WAITING ROOM TV For several years I took photographs of tv screens in public c settings, using a slow-shutter...

... 7 BOUNDARY DISPLACEMENT: THE STATE, THE FOUNDATIONS, AND INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES DURING AND AFTER THE COLD WAR It is a curious fact of academic history that the first great...

...C h a p t e r t h r e e The Andean Cultural Area The innovations of modernity entered the hinterlands of Latin America from abroad after the First World War through the mediation of the re- gion’s capital cities, reviving and aggravating a number of cultural con- flicts. The most...

... Cartographies of Connection Ocean Maps as Metaphors for Inter-Area History K renä Wi gen Wallerstein’s opus was required reading at many history graduate programs in the 1980s, when I was a student. The grandeur of the work’s...

... ONE N SETTING THE SCENE sm Communities in the San Francisco Bay Area According to bdsm community legend, the very first munch took place in Palo Alto in April 1992. STella, a Stanford University student, posted an invitation to the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.bondage: she...