Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation

ISBN-13: 9780367172664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 202 str.

Claudia Derichs

Opis

Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation questions the assumption that groups of people should be defined be geographical boundaries, arguing instead that individuals often feel more connected by shared values and principles than by conventional spatial dimensions. The book demonstrates that an understanding of pluri-local connectivity should be integrated into the production of knowledge about different areas of the world and the behavioural dimension of global cooperation. By shifting the view from the collective to the individual and from the formal to often invisible patterns of connectedness, this book provides an important fresh perspective which will be of interest to scholars and students Area Studies, Global Cooperation, Politics, International Relations and Development Studies. 　

O autorze

Claudia Derichs is Professor of Comparative Politics and International Development Studies at Philipps University Marburg, Germany, and a senior associate fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg, Germany. Her research interests are Muslim societies and political transition in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, as well as gender and development studies in Asia and the Middle East. She has published various books and articles on Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and the Arab world, and is an advisor to several academic and political institutions, journals and think tanks. Prior to her studies of Japanese and Arabic, she worked as a journalist.