In recent years the conceptual underpinnings and continued validity of area studies in a globalizing world have been severely questioned. Emanating from a critique of Orientalism, but also reflecting changing institutional politics in the American academe following the end of the Cold War, the attack on area studies has spread across the globe. This has resulted in growing pronouncements on the failure of area studies in producing a synthesis of knowledge that transcends disciplinary divides and power hierarchies between the Western and non-Western world. The spread of this critique has led to a common view that area studies is in a state of "crisis".2 Ironically, however,this critique of area studies comes at a time when regional perspectives are gaining ground in defining regions based on local are priorities. The critical agendas that propelled the attack on area studies in Euro-America appear to undermine such promising effort. As the crisis of area studies deliberate over its fate, some scholars in galvanized scholars to deliberate over its fate ,some scholars in Asian Studies have sought to find 'afterlives" for area studies by pointing to regionally located scholarships as alternative sites from which Euro- American-centric visions could be denaturalized.4 In the words of Miyoshi and Harootunian: The afterlife thus refers to the moment that has decentered the truths,practices and even insitutions belonged to a time that could still believe .
In recent years the conceptual underpinnings and continued validity of area studies in a globalizing world have been severely questioned. Emanating from a critique of Orientalism, but also reflecting changing institutional politics in the American academe following the end of the Cold War, the attack on area studies has spread across the globe. This has resulted in growing pronouncements on the failure of area studies in producing a synthesis of knowledge that transcends disciplinary divides and power hierarchies between the Western and non-Western world. The spread of this critique has led to a common view that area studies is in a state of "crisis".2 Ironically, however,this critique of area studies comes at a time when regional perspectives are gaining ground in defining regions based on local are priorities. The critical agendas that propelled the attack on area studies in Euro-America appear to undermine such promising effort. As the crisis of area studies deliberate over its fate, some scholars in galvanized scholars to deliberate over its fate ,some scholars in Asian Studies have sought to find 'afterlives" for area studies by pointing to regionally located scholarships as alternative sites from which Euro- American-centric visions could be denaturalized.4 In the words of Miyoshi and Harootunian: The afterlife thus refers to the moment that has decentered the truths,practices and even insitutions belonged to a time that could still believe .
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