Title: Self-reflexive area studies /
Authors: Middell, Matthias; Middell, Matthias.; Wissenschaftsrat (Germany)
Year: 2013
Subjects: Area studies.; Area studies Congresses.
Contents: Area studies under the global condition : debates on where to go with regional or area studies in Germany / Matthias Middell -- Ex-centring the global : liminality and interconnectedness in urban Kigoma / Geert Castryck -- Unsettling paradigms : war in the Balkans, refugees and the forgotten spaces of change / Isa Blumi -- Peculiar encounters with the "black continent" : Soviet Africanists in the global 1960s and the expansion of the discipline / Steffi Marung -- State failure or state formation? : an African perspective on Latin America's new violence / Markus-Michael Müller -- Turning the tables on international financial institutions : borrowing states and the question of regime / Kristin Seffer -- Standardizing Islamic finance : questioning the traditional concept of Orient / Martin Heckel -- Power geometries of food security : a critical area studies perspective / Sarah-Ruth Sippel, Birgit Kemmerling -- Culture as a resource for development? : critical perspectives from the field of contemporary African dance / Nadine Sieveking -- Sacred spaces reloaded : new trends in Shintō / Elisabetta Porcu.