Area Studies at the Crossroads: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn

I Introduction: Area studies at the Crossroads

1. From Spatial Containers to Studying the Mobile

Anna-Katharina Hornidge & Katja Mielke

2. Challenging spatialities of knowledge under globalisation: Strategic responses to the neoliberal university and its role in entrenching the global immobility of theory production

Peter A. Jackson

II To be or not to be is not the question. Rethinking Area Studies in its own right

3. Area studies @ Southeast Asia: Concepts and directions for an emerging field of regional science

Christoph Antweiler

4. Rethinking "Middle Eastern" Studies post-Arab revolts: Analytical and conceptual queries and propositions

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

5. Rethinking the Americas: Entanglement and (De-)Colonization of Space and Knowledge

Olaf Kaltmeier

6. Are transregional studies the future of Area Studies?

Matthias Middell

III Mobility, immobility, and positionality in rethinking Area Studies

7. The society of betweenness: Migration and identities of migrants as identities in motion

Bianca Boteva-Richter

8. Positionality at the crossroads: Gendered lifeworlds, social situatedness and the relational production of place in the context of student migration to Gilgit, Pakistan

Andreas Benz

9. Red lines for uncivilised trade?: Fixity, mobility and position on Almaty's changing bazaars

Henryk Alff

10. There and Back Again. Late German Repatriates at Eurasia's Crossroads

Markus Kaiser & Michael Schoenhuth

11. Social (im-)mobility at the margins of rural society in Punjab: Vartan bhanji-exchange practices and coping strategies

Aftab Nasir

12. Margins or Center? Kokani Sufi Muslims between India and Arabastan

Deepra Dandekar

IV Theory-building from local empirical realities

13. Developing mid-range concepts in "global ethnography": from researching development knowledge systems and systems of ignorance to translocal structuration of (gendered) fields and spaces

Gudrun Lachenmann

14. The social order concept: An invitation to non-normative ordering in research approaches to past and contemporary local politics

Andreas Wilde & Katja Mielke

15. Variants of differentiation in resources governance Khorezm, Uzbekistan: Is this a 'mid-range concept'?

Anna-Katharina Hornidge

16. The case for reconceptualising Southeast Asian Studies

Cynthia Chou

17. Positioning "Civilization blocs" within the Asia-Pacific region: Implications to the teaching of area studies in tertiary education in the Philippines

Elizabeth T. Urgel & Philip Michael I. Paje

18. "This area is [not] under quarantine": Rethinking Southeast Asian Studies with (new) media

Arnika Fuhrmann

19. Teaching to transgress: Crossroads Studies and adventures in (?)-disciplinarity

Epifania Amoo-Adare