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Seeing the World: How U.S. Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology): 14

Seeing the World: How U.S. Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology): 14

by Mitchell Stevens (Author), Mitchell Stevens (Author), Seteney Shami (Author), Cynthia Miller–idriss (Author)

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Synopsis

An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitan U.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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 184
 Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 13 Feb 2018
ISBN 10: 069115869X
ISBN 13: 9780691158693

Media Reviews
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
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
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
Seeing 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
Author Bio
Mitchell 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.