{"title":"Comparative Area Studies without comparisons: What can Area Studies learn from Comparative Literature?","authors":"Z. Milutinović","doi":"10.5040/9781788319119.ch-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781788319119.ch-006","url":null,"abstract":"I envied a physicist friend, who was fortunate enough to be able to say, with a lascivious smile on his face, that his dissertation dealt with friction, as this would immediately lead the conversation into a less inquisitive and more light-hearted direction (such as ‘are there many jokes at the conferences you attend?’). For my part, I gradually learnt to reply that my dissertation was on the metatheatrical aspects of plot structures, or on postmodern hermeneutical protocols, or with other similar conversation killers, and to immediately turn the tables by 6","PeriodicalId":396158,"journal":{"name":"The Rebirth of Area Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115715995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eastern Europe, with and without borders","authors":"W. Bracewell","doi":"10.5040/9781788319119.ch-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781788319119.ch-004","url":null,"abstract":"A genealogy of the concept of ‘Eastern Europe’ and survey of the state of East European studies in Western academia lead to a discussion of the ways East European studies might absorb and build on recent critiques, contributing to a re-mapping of Area Studies more widely. As well as urging awareness of the geopolitical and academic forces that have defined Eastern Europe and East European studies in the past, the chapter underlines the heuristic potential and institutional advantages of multiple, overlapping and competing area concepts. Dialogues across different academic cultures (whether the differences are those of discipline, area, or geographical location) and a critique of the production and circulation of knowledge from a self-aware ‘area’ perspective feed into a larger project of critical Area Studies.","PeriodicalId":396158,"journal":{"name":"The Rebirth of Area Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122664618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}