... Jan Busse Area Studies Area Studies Controversy hierarchies of knowledge production Dans le cadre des efforts des dernières années en vue d'une étude des relations internationales plus sensible au contexte et à la diversité, les relations entre les domaines des RI et Études régionales (ER) ont...

... devices and wearable tech are new data streams that will find utility in future studies, and bring novel dimensions with respect to ethical use of small-area data. Small-area studies open data remote sensing environment and health Table 1. Health, environment and socio-economic data holdings...

...Zakia Shiraz; Richard J. Aldrich The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Leverhulme Trust. They would like to thank Philip H. J. Davies, Christopher R. Moran and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful observations. intelligence secrecy surveillance ethics area studies...

... specialists as well? These are important questions that draw on insights and criticism from different debates—namely, (1) the area studies controversy and (2) post-Western critique. While these two debates have been significant within their respective fields, they have not dealt explicitly with one another. I...

...” and “artist.” The question now was: what is the role of art and the artist in the process of postcolonial nation-building? Does tradition hinder or foster this process? The chapter discusses this question in three steps: It first, outlines the rise of area studies in the US as part of cold war politics...

... transitions oil and gas Middle East and North Africa rentier state theory authoritarian regimes resource curse economic diversification environmental history comparative area studies urban studies Oil and gas play a paramount role in economic development, the domestic social contract...

... coding diagnoses coding and classification general practice databases teenagers young adults childhood cancer geographical data environmental factors small-area studies birth registration record linkage patterns of care ...

... data on storage of data diagnosis health care worker cancer diagnosed on presentation to artefacts in cancer incidence data place chance cancer incidence due to confounding variables cancer registry data small-area studies data analysis geographical rates This chapter describes the sources...

...This chapter discusses small-area studies of congenital anomalies. Topics covered include case ascertainment, accuracy of information, prevalence, geographical resolution, and role of specific surveys and ad hoc studies. Although small-area studies are not new to congenital anomaly epidemiology...

... hypothesis models demographic trend models ratio models population estimates small-area studies estimation methods data sources population register Calculation of disease rates in small areas requires an accurate estimation of the population exposed to risk. As the area of interest becomes smaller...

... exposure assessment small-area studies The Sellafield nuclear site is located in the north-west of England on the coast of West Cumbria. The site was acquired in 1947 for the production of plutonium for defence purposes, with two nuclear reactors and a spent fuel reprocessing plant being in operation...

... mineral fibre content in respiratory cancer investigations in Turkey mortality death epidemics carcinogens environmental exposure assessment mesothelioma metal fibre lung cancer small-area studies In the early 1970s a team from the Department of Chest Diseases of the Hacettepe University of Ankara...

... contexts of time, place, and experience. area studies civilization comparative political theory CPT comparative politics discursive structures Eurocentrism international politics normative claims power religion tradition appropriation commensurability cross cultural engagement decolonization...

...This chapter analyzes the position of the “area studies center” as a major institutional form in the context of a US university that seeks to transform itself into a global institution. It looks at the case of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University (NYU). NYU...

... Eastern languages and civilizations or religious studies. It suggests that the area studies framework can also impose constraints on Islamic studies if it is not attentive to issues that cross geographic boundaries, such as centuries-old migration in and out of the region, the transregional character...

...This chapter examines the complex intersection of intellectual, institutional, and political processes that have, after the events of 9/11, cumulatively contributed to the current state of area studies in American universities. At the broadest level, the polemics surrounding Middle East studies...

... seeks to extend the earlier efforts to critique the area studies paradigm and its methodological nationalism by Naoki Sakai, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, and Masao Miyoshi. By underscoring the ways in which global protocols of capitalist accumulation, biopolitics, and warfare require their local...

...This chapter first identifies a number of political-economic developments shaping the crisis in area studies, with particular reference to Asia Pacific studies. It then considers alternative ways of reimagining regional geographies and issues. It notes the significance of the end of the Cold War...

... University of Singapore University of Hawaii at Mānoa comparative study Chinatowns geography area studies educational cultures stereotypes The stated goal of the “Remaking Asia-Pacific Studies: Moving Cultures” project is to “develop an innovative pedagogy for area studies teaching and learning...