Necessary Travel

Susan Hodgett is professor and director of area studies at the University of East Anglia, England.Patrick James is Dornsife Dean’s professor of international relations at the University of Southern California.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsPart I – OverviewChapter 1 Introduction: Context – Theorizing the New Area Studies Susan Hodgett, and Patrick JamesPart II – New Area Studies Around the GlobeChapter 2 New Area Studies in the Borderlands of Asia Mandy SadanChapter 3 New Area Studies, the Problem of Russia and ‘Recursive Nationhood’Stephen HutchingsChapter 4 Area Studies as Refugee StudiesPeter GatrellChapter 5 Latin American Studies: What Have We Achieved and Where are We Heading?Christopher Sabatini, and Nicolas Albertoni GomezChapter 6 Mastering the Current. Studying Central Asia in the 21st CenturyClaus Bech HansenChapter 7 Muslim World Studies or Middle East Studies?Rob GleaveChapter 8 Blurring the Boundaries of History and Fiction: Re-imagining the Past and Re-defining the Present through the Lens of Saudi Women NovelistsZahia Smail Salhi and Ibrahim A. I. AlfraihPart III – Canada in Comparative PerspectiveChapter 9 TransArea Studies: Gendered Mobility in North American LiteratureCaroline RosenthalChapter 10 Area and Circus Studies: The Case of and for a Boundary Crossing Quebec Charles R. BatsonChapter 11 Figurations of the Border and New Area StudiesClaude Denis with Abdelkarim AmengayChapter 12 The State Against Canadian Studies Colin CoatesPart IV – Reflections on New Area StudiesChapter 13 What Have We Learned?Susan Hodgett, and Patrick JamesAbout the Contributors

This volume is a timely effort to draw attention to the latent potential of area studies in addition to highlighting recent methodological and conceptual innovations of significance within the broader field of study. The collection is imbued with a desire to utilize the strengths of area studies in order to address the trivialisation of social, cultural and economic complexity with respect to rapidly changing regional, national and global context. This collections provides an effective introduction to the changing character and ambition of area studies.