Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation

• Main Author: Derichs, Claudia
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2017; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Global Cooperation Series
• Subjects: Anthropology; Area studies; Biodiversity; Business & Economics; Climate Change; Communication studies; Conservation; Conventional Area Studies; Cultural and media studies; Cultural studies; Developing & Emerging Countries; Development; Development studies; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Environmental economics; Environmental Policy; Environmental studies; Geography; Good Life; Interdisciplinary studies; International Islamic Relief Organization; International Monetary Fund; International relations; Islam; Islamic Economy; Islamic Entrepreneurship; Islamic Finance; Mass Organisation Nu; Mohammad Natsir; Muslim Legal Tradition; Muslim World; Naguib Al Attas; Nurcholish Madjid; Paramadina University; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge; Political Science; Politics and government; Popular Religious Leaders; Population & Development; Public Policy; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Regional geography; Religion and beliefs; Religion: general; Social groups, communities and identities; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Sociology of Knowledge; Southeast Asian Studies; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Topics in philosophy; Transnationalism; Islamic Finance; Good Life; International Islamic Relief Organization; Environmental policy; Conservation; Nurcholish Madjid; Popular Religious Leaders; Biodiversity; Sustainable development; Environmental economics; Local Knowledge; Tarbiyah Movement; Dakwah Movements; Naguib Al Attas; Mass Organisation Nu; Islamic Economy; Muslim Women's Rights Activists; Sustainability; Environmental studies; Paramadina University; Muslim World; Islamic Entrepreneurship; Southeast Asian Studies; Comparative Area Studies; Conventional Area Studies; International Monetary Fund; Western IR Theory; Islamic Market Indices; Muslim Legal Tradition; Knowledge Entrepreneurs; Climate Change; Mohammad Natsir; Translocal Subjectivities
• ISBN: 9780367172664; 9781138188747; 1138188743; 0367172666; 131728206X; 9781315642123; 9781317282068; 1317282051; 1138188751; 1315642123; 9781317282051; 9781138188754; 1317282078; 9781317282075
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315642123

Whereas Area Studies and cross-border cooperation research conventionally demarcates groups of people by geographical boundaries, individuals might in fact feel more connected by shared values and principles than by conventional spatial dimensions. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation asks what norms and principles lead to the creation of knowledge about cross-border cooperation and connection. It studies why theories, methods, and concepts originate in one place rather than another, how they travel, and what position the scholar adopts while doing research, particularly 'in the field'. Taking case studies from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, the book links the production of alternative epistemologies to the notion of global cooperation and reassesses the ways in which the concept of connectedness can be applied at the translocal and individual rather than the formal international and collective level. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation provides an innovative and critical approach towards established means of producing knowledge about different areas of the world, demonstrating that an understanding of pluri-local connectivity should be integrated into the production of knowledge about different areas of the world and the behavioural dimension of global cooperation. By shifting the view from the collective to the individual and from the formal to often invisible patterns of connectedness, this book provides an important fresh perspective which will be of interest to scholars and students of Area Studies, Politics, International Relations and Development Studies.