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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mitchell Stevens , Cynthia Miller-Idriss , Seteney ShamiPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691202938ISBN 10: 0691202931 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 28 April 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsSeeing the World combines impressive ambition and empirical depth with a powerful comparative approach to make a significant contribution to our understanding of area studies. --Jason Owen-Smith, University of Michigan With extensive interviews and other data, Seeing the World explains critical variations in understanding area studies and the mechanisms that enable their interdisciplinary reproduction in leading US universities. This book should not only clarify thinking about the international missions of US universities, but also improve how their globalizing knowledge networks function in practice. --Michael D. Kennedy, Brown University This is a vital book. The debate about the role of universities in global understanding starts here. This short book is full of insights about how the world has shaped American universities and how universities have shaped what we think about the world. --Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University Seeing the World addresses an interesting and weighty question: Why are the social sciences so poorly represented in area studies? The authors and their collaborators conducted and analyzed a treasure trove of interviews with leading academics in area studies, particularly Middle East studies, and the book provides both empirical and theoretical advances. --Jerry A. Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania """Written with verve, this short book does a good job of contextualizing area studies within a historical sociology of the vicissitudes of academic life.""---Mary Taylor Huber, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning ""[Seeing the World] offers a novel perspective to understand the historical and contemporary role of US research universities in shaping and reshaping American and global societies. . . . A must-read book for anyone working or studying within the US higher education system. It will help current students, scholars, and administrators better understand their role within the American university’s knowledge-producing system.—Lipon Mondal, International Journal of Comparative Sociology""" Author InformationMitchell L. Stevens is associate professor of education at Stanford University. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is associate professor of education and sociology at American University. Seteney Shami is a program director at the Social Science Research Council and founding director of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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