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area studies

vr.tr.area-studies · INF.KNW

Let an agent explain area studies as a scholarly approach, describe its regional fields and institutions, present debates about its methods and history with attribution, and support students and researchers.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain area studies as a scholarly approach, describe its regional fields and institutions, present debates about its methods and history with attribution, and support students and researchers.

Interdisciplinary fields of scholarship that study a particular geographic, national or cultural region, such as Eurasian studies, Israel studies, Caucasian studies, Brussels studies and the former Soviet and communist studies, drawing on history, languages, politics, economics, anthropology and geography; area studies developed strongly after the Second World War, are organised in university centres and associations, and are debated for their relation to disciplines and to the interests that funded them.

What it is for: Interdisciplinary study of regions.

It can be explain the approach; describe fields and institutions; present debates; support students.

Distinguishing features

Regional focus

Interdisciplinarity

Language competence

Institutional centres

What it looks like

Not physical; academic fields.

How it is recognised

Interdisciplinary study of a region

Eurasian, Caucasian, Israel and other studies

Disciplines such as history and political science cut across regions

Related models

is a kind of - category

cultural studies

is a kind of - category

interdisciplinary science

is related to - a discipline drawn on by area studies

ancient history

is related to - a profession contributing to area studies

economist

In practice

Families and kinds

continental and macro-regional studies

country and national studies

city and micro-regional studies

former Soviet and communist studies

diaspora and transregional studies

Standards and regulation

Academic standards and peer review

University programme accreditation

Research ethics for fieldwork

Failure modes and hazards

Presenting a region through one political lens

Ignoring scholarship from the region itself

Outdated Cold War framings

Also called

domestic studiesEurasian studiesSoviet and Communist studiesBrussels studiescaucasologyIsrael studiesAsian and African studiesAmericanismIberoamerican studiesPalestinian studiesGerman and Austrian StudiesSuriname studiesLatin American studiesIberian studieslocal studiesclassical studiesBalkan studiesCanadian studiesAmerican studiesPacific studiesKurdish studiesHungarian studiesCaribbean studiesAtlantic Canada studiesKartvelian literaturehistory of the CaucasusKartvelian studiesillyrologistGeorgian studies

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.area-studies

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What area studies are.

Scholarship.

Concept

Concept and approach.

Concept

Concept.

  1. What are area studies, and how do they combine disciplines around a region? definition
  2. Which region is meant? boundary

Fields

Regional fields.

Fields

Fields.

  1. What fields such as Eurasian, Caucasian, Israel and city studies exist, and how are they organised? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific field? action
Study Studying and researching.

Practice.

Programmes

Programmes.

Programmes

Programmes.

  1. How are area studies programmes structured, and what language and fieldwork training do they involve? provenance
  2. Which entry fits higher education? action

Research

Research methods.

Research

Research.

  1. What methods and sources do area studies researchers use? provenance
  2. Which entry fits research methods? action
Debate Debates and history.

Attribution.

History

History and funding.

History

History.

  1. How did area studies develop after the Second World War, including Soviet and communist studies, and how did funding shape them, according to historians? provenance
  2. Is the presentation attributed? boundary

Critique

Critiques.

Critique

Critique.

  1. What critiques of area studies exist from disciplines and from scholars in the regions studied, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Learn Resources and teaching.

Education.

Resources

Resources.

Resources

Resources.

  1. Which associations, journals and centres are standard references in area studies? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can area studies be taught? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each regional field be a separate entry?
  • How should associations and centres be linked?
  • How should debates be attributed?
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