%0 Journal Article
%T Asian Studies/Global Studies: Transcending Area Studies and Social Sciences
%A John Lie
%J Cross-Currents : East Asian History and Culture Review
%D 2012
%I University of Hawaii Press
%X The post¨CWorld War II growth of area studies, and Asian studies in particular, posed a serious challenge to the mainstream social sciences. Yet the epistemic and institutional foundations of area studies were never well articulated or justified, and the post¨CCold War years brought a pervasive sense of crisis to its intellectual mission and justification. In particular, the author focuses on the tensions, if not contradictions, between social science disciplines and area studies. In advocating a more integrated human science, which depends more on mobile networks of scholars than on fixed fields of discipline-bound professors, the author suggests global studies as a fitting field of inquiry in the age of globalization.
%K Asian Studies
%K area studies
%K global studies
%U https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-2/asian-studiesglobal-studies-transcending-area-studies-and-social-sciences