Eduardo J. Gómez, Geopolitics in Health: Confronting Obesity, Aids, And Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), pp. xiii + 304, $54.75, paperback, ISBN: 9781421423616.
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DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2018.46
Abstract: of cross-cultural teaching in many disciplines. So that, in the press release for this edited volume, Victor Mair rightly praises Buddhism and Medicine as ‘a most unusual project. . . unique and valuable’. Buddhism and… read more here.
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Edith W. Clowes and Shelly Jarrett Bromberg (eds.), Area Studies in the Global Age. Community, Place, Identity
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DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1274130
Abstract: There’s a conflict in US universities over the nature of “area studies.” That struggle has overflowed into a broader international debate about the place of area studies in the academy. In essence,... read more here.
Keywords: edith clowes; shelly jarrett; clowes shelly; area studies ... See more keywords
Rethinking and transforming Area Studies and Indian Studies: A new cosmopolitanism and the challenges of planetary realisations
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DOI: 10.1177/00699667231152284
Abstract: Area Studies was an important way of studying different parts of the world after the Second World War that was promoted by US-European academic establishments. This construction emerged after the end of the Second World… read more here.
Keywords: area studies; world; area; rethinking transforming ... See more keywords
Collections, care, and the collective: Experiments in collaborative fieldwork in area studies librarianship
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DOI: 10.1177/03400352221103891
Abstract: While scholarship in library science continues to expand understanding of collaboration and its potential to transform the collective collection, librarian acquisitions trips have been largely absent from the conversation. In early 2020, three US-based South… read more here.
Keywords: area studies; collections care; care collective; collaborative fieldwork ... See more keywords
Gulf Studies: The Imperatives of Area Studies in the Gulf Region
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DOI: 10.3390/socsci12050261
Abstract: Area Studies is in crisis, but research on Area Studies also demonstrates the relevance of and need for Area Studies through case studies in different world regions. However, there is a dearth of research on… read more here.
Keywords: area; gulf studies; gulf region; area studies ... See more keywords