CMNS 443 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Arif Dirlik, Ashis Nandy, Pacific Studies

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Major themes: theories of asia come in varieties of frameworks, popular frameworks of understanding asia are developed by the west, alternative frameworks struggle to detach themselves from external or internal westernization. Asia pacific studies in an age of global modernity arif dirlik: 2 developments that sparkle asia pacific studies global modernity, the crisis of area studies, 5 alternatives to alternatives to area studies, civilizational. Indigenous: asianization, ocean studies, diaspora, the importance of place-based analysis. Area studies: definition: interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship, including a particular geographical, national, regional, or cultural. 1: fields, african studies/african american studies, american studies, asian studies, east asian (sinology, japanese studies, korean studies, south asian studies/southeast asian studies, canadian studies, european studies, latin american studies/middle eastern studies. Asian studies/asian pacific studies: new configurations to substitute for earlier area studies, tied in with new formations of power, two developments provide the conditions for the emergence to visibility of new areas (pacific-

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