Framing Asian Studies
Subtitle: Geopolitics and Institutions
Publisher: ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9789814786300
Description: This book explores the interconnection between geopolitical context and the ways this context frames our knowledge about Asia, highlighting previously neglected cause-effect relations. It also examines how various knowledge institutions promote and shape Asian Studies. The authors seek to explain why Asian Studies and its subfields developed in the way they did, and what the implications of these transformations might be on intellectual and political understandings of Asia. The book not only builds on the current debates on the decolonization and de-imperialization of knowledge about Asia; it also proposes a more multifaceted view rather than just examining the impact of the West on the framing of Asian Studies.