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The course is part of CUFA's Donatio Project in collaboration with project ERA-AREAS. Its basic aim is an introduction to the broad subject of area studies for Ph.D. and M.A. students from CUFA¨s departments of area philologies, history, sociology, political science etc.<br>
The course will be taught by prof. Paul Chaisty (Oxford School of Global Area Studies). <br> The seminar will be held on: 8. 10. 22. 10. 20. 11. (!Exception, Thursday) 3. 12 Poslední úprava: Buben Radek, PhDr., Ph.D. (22.09.2025)
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Professor Paul Chaisty Teaching Arrangements Each class will be divided into two one-hour sections. The first hour will consist of an overview lecture and discussion; the second hour will comprise student presentations and discussion. The objectives of each class and the recommended readings are set out below. Classes and Readings SEMESTER 1 Class 1: What is Area Studies? Lecture objective: this lecture will explore the historical development of Area Studies; the state of the field, and the issues that frame the course Chow, R. (2006), The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (Duke University Press) ch. 1 Cumings, B. (1997), ‘Boundary Displacement: Area Studies and International Studies during and after the Cold War’, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars Miyoshi, M. and Harootunian, H. eds. (2002), Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies (Duke University Press) introduction, pp 261-302 Szanton, D.L. ed. (2004) The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines. (University of California Press) introduction
Ahram, A., I. P. Köllner, and R. Sil, eds. (2018) Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-regional Applications (Oxford University Middell M. ed. (2018), The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies (Routledge), ch. 4 Milutinovic, Zoran, ed. (2019) The Rebirth of Area Studies: Challenges for History, Politics and International Relations in the 21st Century (I.B. Tauris), chs. 1-2 Presentation objective: presenters will review the history of one or more fields of Area Studies Reading Lomova, O. (2022), ‘Sinology and Area Studies: Recent (Con)fusion’ in Jakub Jirsa ed. On Liberal Education and the Autopoiesis of Universities (Charles Middell M. ed. (2018), The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies (Routledge), ch. 2 (Balkan studies), ch 3 (Asia studies) Szanton, D.L. ed. (2004) The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines. (University of California Press), ch. 1 (Latin American Studies), ch. 2 (Middle Eastern Studies), ch. 3 (African Studies), ch. 4 (Japanese Studies), ch. 5 (Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies), ch. 6 (East European Studies), ch. 7 (Chinese Studies), ch. 8 (South Asian Studies), ch. 9 (Southeast Asian Studies) Class 2: Is Area Studies a discipline? Lecture objective: this lecture will explore the inter-disciplinary nature of Area Studies and how it connects with conventional disciplines in History and the Social Sciences Core reading (*priority) Bates, R.H. (1997), ‘Area studies and the Discipline: A Useful Controversy?’. PS: Political Science & Politics, 30, 2: 166-169 Busse, Jan et al. (2024), ‘Contextualizing the Contextualizers: How the Area Studies Controversy is Different in Different Places’, International Studies Review, 26, 1 Gibson-Graham, J. K. (2004), ‘Area Studies after Poststructuralism’, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 36(3), 405-419 Milutinovic, Z., ed. (2019) The Rebirth of Area Studies : Challenges for History, Politics and International Relations in the 21st Century (I.B. Tauris), ch.5 Mirsepassi, A., A. Basu and F. Weaver, eds. (2003), Localizing knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debate (Syracuse University Press), ch. 9 Further reading Ahram, A. I., P. Köllner, and R. Sil eds. (2025) Advancing Comparative Area Studies: Analytical Heterogeneity and Organizational Challenges (Oxford Ahram, A., I. P. Köllner, and R. Sil eds. (2018) Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-regional Applications (Oxford University Curaming,R. A. (2006) ‘Towards a Poststructuralist Southeast Asian Studies?’, Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 21, 1: 90-112 Hutt, M. (2019) ‘Area Studies and the Importance of “Somewhere”,’ Southeast Asia Research, 27:1: 21–25. Katzenstein, P. J. (2002), ‘Area Studies, Regional Studies, and International Relations’, Journal of East Asian Studies 2, 1: 127–37 Presentation objective: presenters will discuss the ‘Area Studies-Disciplines’ controversy with reference to one or more disciplines Reading Dominguez, J. I. (2009), ‘Don’t Stay Home.The Utility of Area Studies for Political Science Scholarship’, in King, G., K. L. Schlozman, and N. H. Nie, eds. The Future of Political Science: Perspectives (Routledge) Guyer, J. I. (2004), ‘Anthropology in Area Studies’, Annual Review of Anthropology, 33: 499–523 Knight, A. (1995), Latin America--What Price the Past?: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 18 November 1993 (Oxford University Press) Sidaway, J. D. (2013), ‘Geography, Globalization, and the Problematic of Area Studies’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103, 4: 984-1002 Shohat, E. (2002), ‘Area Studies, Gender Studies, and the Cartographies of Knowledge’, Social Text, 20, 3: 67-78 Lecture objective: the lecture will explore issues in Area Studies raised by the two central concepts of ‘Area’ and ‘Context’ Core reading (* priority) Clowes, E. and S. J. Bromberg, eds. (2016), Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity (Cornell University Press), introduction Falleti, T. G. and J. F. Lynch (2009), ‘Context and Causal Mechanisms in Political Analysis’, Comparative Political Studies, 42, 9: 1143-1166 Hanson, S. (2008) ‘The Contribution of Area Studies’, Qualitative & Mixed Method Research 6, 2: 35–43 [also in T. Landman and N. Robinson (2009), The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics (SAGE)] Milutinovic, Z., ed. (2019) The Rebirth of Area Studies: Challenges for History, Politics and International Relations in the 21st Century (I.B. Tauris), ch. 3 Further reading Ahram, A. I., P. Köllner, and R. Sil, eds. (2025) Advancing Comparative Area Studies: Analytical Heterogeneity and Organizational Challenges (Oxford Ahram, A. I. (2011), ‘The Theory and Method of Comparative Area Studies’, Qualitative Research, 11, 1: 69-90 Ashutosh, I. (2017), ‘The Geography and Area Studies Interface from the Second World War to the Cold War’, Geographical Review, 107: 705-721 Lewis, M.W. and K. Wigen (1999), ‘A Maritime Response to the Crisis in Area Studies’, Geographical Review, 89: 161-168 Presentation objective: presenters will assess understandings of ‘Area’ in one or more of the different fields of Area Studies Reading Green, N. (2014), ‘Re-Thinking the 'Middle East' After the Oceanic Turn’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 34, 3: 556-564 Klinke, I. (2015), ‘Area Studies, Geography and the Study of Europe’s East’, The Geographical Journal, 181, 4: 423-426 Mielke, K. and A.-K. Hornidge eds (2017), Area Studies at the Crossroads: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn (Palgrave), pp. 65-81 (Southeast Asia) Moya, J. C. (2011), ‘”Introduction” Latin America – The Limitations and Meaning of a Historical Category’, in José C. Moya, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History (Oxford University Press) Milutinovic, Z., ed. (2019) The Rebirth of Area Studies: Challenges for History, Politics and International Relations in the 21st Century (I.B. Tauris), ch. 4 (Eastern Europe) Miyoshi, M. and Harootunian, H. eds. (2002), Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies (Duke University Press), pp. 231-260 (Asia-Pacific) Morris-Suzuki, T. (2019), ‘Liquid Area Studies: Northeast Asia in Motion as Viewed from Mount Geumgang’, Positions, 27, 1: 209-239 Class 4: The Methodological Challenges of Area Studies Lecture objective: the lecture will explore the challenges of doing Area Studies research in difficult research environments and the methodological strategies for overcoming them Core Reading (*priority) Kovats-Bernat, J. C. (2002), ‘Negotiating Dangerous Fields: Pragmatic Strategies for Fieldwork Amid Violence and Terror’, American Anthropologist 104, 1: 208–222 Daly, S. Z. and P. Krause, P. (2024), ‘Whose Side are You On? Balancing Impartiality and Proximity in the Study of Civil Wars’, Conflict, Security & Development, 24, 6: 621–644 Konken, L. and Howlett, M. (2022), ‘When ‘Home’ becomes the ‘Field:’ Ethical Considerations in Digital and Remote Fieldwork’, Perspectives on Politics, 21, 3: 849–862 Ugoretz, K. (2022), ‘Demystifying Remote Research in Anthropology and Area Studies’, Asia Pacific Perspectives 17, 1: 52-71 Further reading Ahram, A. I., P. Köllner, and R. Sil, eds. (2025) Advancing Comparative Area Studies: Analytical Heterogeneity and Organizational Challenges (Oxford Delli Paoli, A. and V. D’Auria. (2021), ‘Digital Ethnography: A Systematic Literature Review’, Italian Sociological Review, 11, 4S: 243-267 Howlett, M. and L. C. Konken (2025), ‘Finding the “Field” in our “Homes” and our “Homes” in the “Field”: A Critique of the “Home–Field” Dichotomy’, PS: Presentation objective: presenters will discuss the pros and cons of different methodological approaches for researching Areas that are difficult to study Reading Ahram, A., I. P. Köllner, and R. Sil, eds. (2018) Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-regional Applications (Oxford University Bengtsson, S. (2014), ‘Faraway, So Close! Proximity and Distance in Ethnography Online’, Media, Culture & Society, 36, 6: 862-877 Blair, G., K. Imai and J. Lyall (2014), ‘Comparing and Combining List and Endorsement Experiments: Evidence from Afghanistan’, American Journal of Political Science, 58, 4:1043-1063 Howlett, M. (2021), ‘Looking at the ‘Field’ through a Zoom lens: Methodological Reflections on Conducting Online Research during a Global Pandemic’, Qualitative Research, 22, 3: 387-402 Morris, J. (2022), ‘Political Ethnography and Russian Studies in a Time of Conflict,’ Post-Soviet Affairs, 39, 1–2: 92–100 Rosenfeld, B. (2022), ‘Survey research in Russia: in the Shadow of War’, Post- Soviet Affairs, 39, 1–2: 38–48
Class 5: Comparative Area Studies Lecture objective: the lecture will explore the emerging field of Comparative Area Studies and the theoretical and methodological opportunities and challenges that it presents Core reading (*priority) Ahram, A. I., P. Köllner, and R. Sil eds. (2025) Advancing Comparative Area Studies: Analytical Heterogeneity and Organizational Challenges (Oxford Further reading Hoffmann, B. (2015), ‘Latin America and Beyond: The Case for Comparative Area Studies’, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y Del Caribe, 100: 111–20 Middell M. ed. (2018), The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies (Routledge), ch. 6 Milutinovic, Z., ed. (2019) The Rebirth of Area Studies: Challenges for History, Politics and International Relations in the 21st Century (I.B. Tauris), ch 6 Reading Ahram, A. I., P. Köllner, and R. Sil eds. (2025) Advancing Comparative Area Studies: Analytical Heterogeneity and Organizational Challenges (Oxford Ahram, A., I., P. Köllner, and R. Sil, eds. (2018) Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-regional Applications (Oxford University Press), ch. 8 (China and Russia), ch. 9 (Middle East), ch. 10 (Africa, Asia, Middle East), ch. 11 (Latin America and Africa), ch. 12 (China) Chaisty, P., N. Cheeseman and T. Power (2018), Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Presidents in Multiparty Systems (Oxford University Press), chs. 1-2 Harris, E. and H. Baumann (2019), ‘Identity and War: Comparisons and Connections between the Balkans and the Middle East’, East European Politics, 35, 4: 401-414 Sil, R. and A.I Ahram (2020), ‘Comparative Area Studies and the Study of the Global South’, Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 20, 2: 279—287 Class 6: Area Studies and Transnational Studies Lecture objective: the lecture will discuss the impact of Transnationalism on Area Studies Core reading (*priority) Middell M. ed. (2018), The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies (Routledge), introduction & ch. 1 Mielke, K. and A.-K. Hornidge eds (2017), Area Studies at the Crossroads: Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn (Palgrave), pp. 289-307 Vertovec, S. (2009) Transnationalism (Routledge), introduction Further reading Boccagni, P. (2012), ‘Rethinking Transnational Studies: Transnational Ties and the Transnationalism of Everyday Life’, European Journal of Social Theory 15, 1: 117-13 Freitag, Ulrike, and Achim Von Oppen eds. (2010), Translocality: The Study of Globalising Processes from a Southern Perspective (Brill), introduction Mintz, S. W. (1998), ‘The Localization of Anthropological Practice: From Area Studies to Transnationalism’, Critique of Anthropology 18, 2: 117-133 Portes, A., L. E. Guarnizo and P. Landolt (1999), ‘The Study of Transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field’, Ethnic and Racial Studies 22:2: 217-237 Reading Dupont, A. (2001), East Asia Imperilled: Transnational Challenges to Security (Cambridge University Press) Middell M. ed. (2018), The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies (Routledge) (covers a variety of different policy areas) Oza, R. (2016), ‘The Entanglements of Transnational Feminism and Area Studies’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34, 5: 836-842 Risse-Kappen, T. (1995), ed. Bringing transnational Relations Back In: Non-State Actors, Domestic Structures and International Institutions (Cambridge Yamaura, C. (2015), ‘Marrying Transnational, Desiring Local: Making “Marriageable Others” in Japanese–Chinese Cross-border Matchmaking’, Anthropological Quarterly 88, 4: 1029-1058
Lecture objective: the lecture will explore the challenges and opportunities that Globalization presents to Area Studies Core reading (*priority) Ludden, D. (2000), ‘Area Studies in the Age of Globalization’, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 6, 1: 1-22 Robertson, R. (1995), ‘Glocalization: Time-Space and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity’ in M. Featherstone, S. Lash and R. Robertson, eds., Global Modernities, (Sage), pp. 25-44 Middell M and K Naumann (2010), ‘Global history and the Spatial Turn: From the Impact of Area Studies to the Study of Critical Junctures of Globalization’, Further reading Gille, Z. and S. Ó Riain (2002), ‘Global Ethnography’, Annual Review of Sociology 28: 271-295
Walter, S. (2001), ‘The Backlash Against Globalization’, Annual Review of Political Science, 24: 421-442. Reading Barter, S. J. (2015), ‘Area Studies, Asian Studies, and the Pacific Basin’, Geographical Review, 105, 1: 105–119 Mendieta, E. (2005), ‘Re-mapping Latin American studies: Postcolonialism, Subaltern Studies, Postoccidentalism and Globalization Theory’, Dispositio 25, 52: 179-202 Mirsepassi, A., A. Basu and F. Weaver, eds. (2003), Localizing knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debate (Syracuse University Press) chs. 8 (African studies), 10 (Middle Eastern Studies), 11 (East Asian Studies) Jackson, P. A. (2003), ‘Space, Theory, and Hegemony: the Dual Crises of Asian Area Studies and Cultural Studies’, Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 18, 1: 1-41 Stetter, S. (2012), ‘The Middle East and Globalization: Encounters and Horizons’, in The Middle East and Globalization: Encounters and Horizons (Palgrave), pp. 1-17. Class 8: Challenges and Opportunities in Publishing and Research Funding The concluding seminar will wrap up the key learnings and will discuss publishing and research funding in Area Studies. There will be no student presentations in this week. Poslední úprava: Buben Radek, PhDr., Ph.D. (22.09.2025)
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