A World Compared, Destroyed, and Connected

Esmeir, Samera

doi:10.1215/1089201x-2378076

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“…Another contribution to area studies in the Anglo-American academia was the institutionalization of the comparative method in the traditional sense. The traditional comparative method, as a method of comparing two different entities and finding similarities and differences, is again a product of nineteenth century Europe (Esmeir, 2013: 277). This method was used to describe the study of the ‘foreign’ in Anglo-American universities.…”

Section: Area Studies As a Field Of Social Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this period, the practice of the comparative method lost its relativism and created “others”, who were judged against the normatively upheld ‘origin’. In the words of Samera Esmeir (2013: 277), the First World “produces worlds it fails to discover” and social sciences and the comparative method institutionalize the separation between these worlds. David Vukovich (2012) warns us that this hierarchy of knowledge cannot be broken down easily.…”

Section: Area Studies As a Field Of Social Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

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The (Silk) Road Less Travelled: East Asian Studies and National Identity Formation in Modern Turkey

Ergenç

2017

Diogenes (Engl. ed.)

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Regional studies in Turkey have long focused on Europe and the Middle East, with which Turkey has traditionally been associated. East Asian studies seem to remain out of the spotlight. This study claims firstly that different phases of Asian studies scholarship in Turkey have all been geared towards confirmation and validation of the process of Turkish national identity formation. Secondly, this process also reflects the Western-centrism of Turkish academic knowledge production. This paper presents a periodization of Asian Studies in Turkey in three phases to contextualize and demonstrate these claims. During the first phase of the early republican years, the first Sinology departments were expected to actively contribute to writing Turkish national history. Throughout the second phase of the Cold War years, Turkey found itself in both political and intellectual isolation. In the final phase of post-Cold War globalization, the scope of regional studies scholarship expanded to include East Asia. Despite this development, academic scholarship in Turkey still suffers from Western-centrism and it is not able to directly communicate with East Asia. Knowledge production on East Asia in Turkey is still filtered through the theoretical framework of the Western Anglophone academic world.

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Section: Area Studies As a Field Of Social Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Area Studies As a Field Of Social Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%