...), and thus should be anxious that it may actually reinforce the problem that it seeks to overcome. This article aims to propose a way of understanding and practicing CPT that resolves the field's anxieties about its ostensible obsession with origination, spatial differentiations, and area studies, which...

...Christine L. Marran This essay analyzes Masao Miyoshi’s “turn to the planet” in his later work. In articulating this turn, Miyoshi critiques the logics of difference that has dominated comparative literary and area studies and offers the concept of “planetarianism” as a way of articulating the need...

... matrix of Macau and Hong Kong as comparable yet not always compatible allies and reexamines the methodological need to reroot ourselves in renewed discussions of area studies, scale, and comparative literary studies, given the changing—yet ever relevant—conditions of place and language. Copyright ©...

... in temporal, border-crossing, translational, field-reframing, and revisionary senses. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Japan area studies Asia national...

... in Miyoshi’s scholarship. My hope is that this preliminary consideration of pedagogical legacy thickens our sense of his commitments to foreground resources for future work. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 pedagogy discipline theory area studies Japan References Fujii...

... of Area Studies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Miyoshi Masao Yoshimoto Mitsuhiro . 2007 . Teiko no ba e [Sites of Resistance] . Kyoto, Japan : Rakuhoku shuppan . Tanaka Stefan . 2002 . “ Objectivism and the Eradication of Critique in Japanese History .” In Learning...

.... 1993 . Japan in the World . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Miyoshi Masao Harootunian Harry , eds. 2002 . Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Muto Ichiyo . 2013 . “ The Buildup of a Nuclear Armament Capability...

... spatial boundary 2 32:2, 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Duke University Press. 24 boundary 2 / Summer 2005 complement. In short, I would like to look into some of the afterlives of area studies and how its inaugural impulse for holism and comparison has been reconfigured in such ways as to retain...

... Harootunian H. D. , eds. 2002 . Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . ...

... . Cumings Bruce . 2002 . “ Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War .” In Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies , edited by Miyoshi Masao Harootunian H. D. , 261 – 302 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Fabian...

.... On the one hand, comparatists across periods and geographical areas have produced interesting work problematizing race within a global and internationalist context, using sociological and critical race theory and studies to foreground how race operates in the literary humanities. On the other hand...

... resources for rethinking the conceptual grounds of comparative/area studies. As I understand it, the diagnosis of the current crisis of comparative/area studies largely depends upon whether it is understood as a crisis in the empirical content of a particular model of com- parison (modernization theory...

...- ciety and History and the Journal of Historical Sociology. Harry Harootunian is professor of history and East Asian studies at New York Univer- sity. He has written widely on Japan’s modern cultural and intellectual history, ques- tions relating to historical theory, postcolonial discourse, and area...

... by the theoretical social sciences, such as economics, political science, and sociology; the Second World was studied by area studies; and the Third World was studied by anthropology.19 More recent ethnographic studies of postsocialism are concerned with the values and meanings of everyday practices...

... of student enrollment and curriculum building. The overlap of Islamic studies with area studies—specifically, “Near East” or “Middle Eastern” studies—presents additional challenges. While many Near East/Middle Eastern studies departments serve to diversify “the Middle East”—usually inclusive of Southwest...

.... The academic disciplines, including area studies, reinforce it (see, for example, Wellmon 2015 ). The system has certainly been seductive: it reinforces the preeminence of the West; nonmodern places have usually accepted (often forcefully) it as a map toward improvement and international participation...

.... And by compartmentalizing the world into areas, area studies has mapped out national interests in both the humanities and the social sciences.16 Such nationalization of the university was slowly chal- lenged after the 1960s...

... development of area studies in university language labs. Chapter 3, titled “Olson's Sonic Walls: Citizenship and Surveillance from the OWI to the Nixon Tapes,” brings up the role of poets, Charles Olson in particular, in the “nation-scaled project of time and consciousness management” (106). At the core...

..., and when ‘‘area studies’’ as an academic institution and research paradigm was established in the United States, coordinated and largely funded by the national-security mechanisms of the state. By dividing the Self and the Other as ‘‘mature’’ or ‘‘perfect’’ state-forms and ‘‘immature’’ or ‘‘imperfect...

.... . . . But batik is very popular in Hua Miao society. Therefore if we go to the Miao area we will be able to study the Tang-­era craft from living materials” (2–3). Similarly, “if we want to study music and dance of ancient Chinese society, we only need to do research in the southwestern frontier” (4). Cen...