TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevens,Mitchell
AU  - Miller-Idriss,Cynthia
AU  - Shami,Seteney
TI  - Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era 
T2  - Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
SN  - 9780691158693
AV  - LA226 .S748 2018
U1  - 378.73 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - EDUCATION / Higher
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 9/11
KW  - Area Studies Centers
KW  - Area studies
KW  - Central Asia
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Eurasia
KW  - Middle East Studies
KW  - Program on the Middle East and North Africa
KW  - Russia
KW  - Social Science Research Council
KW  - South Asia
KW  - US academy
KW  - US foreign policy
KW  - global affairs
KW  - globalization
KW  - interdisciplinarity
KW  - international affairs
KW  - internationalism
KW  - modernization theory
KW  - social science research
KW  - study abroad programs
KW  - world affairs
KW  - world regions
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. The world in US Universities --; Chapter 2. What is area Studies? --; Chapter 3. Departments and Not- Departments --; Chapter 4. Stone Soup --; Chapter 5. Numbers and languages --; Chapter 6. US Universities in the World --; Appendix --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitanU.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology have remained stubbornly parochial. Despite decades of government and philanthropic investment in international scholarship, the most prestigious academic departments still favor research and expertise on the United States. Why? Seeing the World answers this question by examining university research centers that focus on the Middle East and related regional area studies.Drawing on candid interviews with scores of top scholars and university leaders to understand how international inquiry is perceived and valued inside the academy, Seeing the World explains how intense competition for tenure-line appointments encourages faculty to pursue "American" projects that are most likely to garner professional advancement. At the same time, constrained by tight budgets at home, university leaders eagerly court patrons and clients worldwide but have a hard time getting departmental faculty to join the program. Together these dynamics shape how scholarship about the rest of the world evolves.At once a work-and-occupations study of scholarly disciplines, an essay on the formal organization of knowledge, and an inquiry into the fate of area studies, Seeing the World is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of knowledge in a global era
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400887965?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400887965
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400887965/original
ER  -