Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi)
"Intellectual Hegemony and Asian Regional Policies of the United States
during the Cold War: Development of Asian Studies in Comparative Perspectives"
Project Leader: KOIZUMI, Junko
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- Outline
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Recent globalization with the "rise of China" has blurred the
existing boundaries of long accepted areas such as Southeast Asia and East
Asia. In reaction to such moves are voices expressing concern that "Southeast
Asian Studies" as an academic field may become less meaningful. Informed
by such processes of regional reconfiguration of today, this research project
aims to critically reexamine the development of area studies, in particular
Southeast Asian and East Asian Studies, from the perspective of both the
U.S. and local scholarship traditions in various Asian countries through
both a critical reading of major academic works of the era and archival
research in key institutions including funding agencies, universities,
and academic associations. By doing so, it tries to uncover the implicit
assumptions embodied in the scholarship developed during the Cold War period
and to evaluate the influence of U.S. scholarship from the local perspectives
of various Asian academic traditions.
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