The provocation of empirical evidence: Soviet African Studies between enthusiasm and discomfort

Marung, Steffi

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“…. and as a space for self-realization both inside and outside Soviet borders' (Kirasirova 2017: 13) was but the first complication in the emergence of Soviet area studies (Marung 2018). They continued to unfold in the context of heated discussions about the role and outlook of Soviet Oriental studies and the subsequent differentiation into Asian and African studies in the late 1950s and early 1960s.…”

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“…Although the institute had been created in the 1960s following Potekhin's suggestions, after criticism from party officials it was transferred from the department of historical sciences to the economics department of the Academy of Sciences in 1962, a shift that marked a move toward economic and political research on contemporary issues, which was cemented by the recruitment of the economist Vassili G. Solodvnikov as new director after Potekhin's death in 1964. Notwithstanding, historical, ethnographic, and cultural studies did not disappear from the institute agenda (Marung 2018).…”

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“…The roots of European area studies in colonial studies are certainly operative (see Chapter 12 by Brahm); however, they are also complemented by transnational circulations of academics in the centres of excellence of their time as well as by the transregional initiatives of US-American foundations, such as Rockefeller and Ford, after the Second World War, which promoted the establishment of centres of area studies in London and Paris, where the funding was appropriated and translated into domestic agendas by scholars and political decision-makers in various ways (Brown 2016;Popa 2018 [forthcoming]). In addition, the engagement with the region of study, through fieldwork and academic communication in particular, has in some of the disciplines in the area studies formation, such as ethnology (Guyer 2004), driven the rethinking and adapting of theoretical frameworks (Marung 2018). The academic mobilities of scholars from the regions of study have added to such tensions.…”

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