Reconfiguring Area Studies for the Global Age

Abstract

(Fletcher & Frank), macrohistory (global history and/or world history), multiple modernities (Eisenstadt), translational theory (Chakrabarty) Some fifteen years ago, I imagined the Global Age in the plural guided by the “Middle Ages ” as a sequence of eras: This was not an outlandish thought in 1995. The following year, Martin Albrow published The Global Age – in the early 1990s, the dialectic of beginning and end was widely felt. Of course, it was a stretch to assume that historical periodization will eventually introduce the anticipated Global Ages. However, a few things had become clear. The Cold War had already turned into a distinct sub-era known from start to finish: from the U.S. “containment ” (Truman Doctrine) of the Soviet Union with substantial aid for Greece and Turkey in 1947 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the demise of the S.U. in 1991. Dead certainties like the two Germanys were no longer and other ostensibly well-established entities, such as area studies, were forced to reconsider their justification. Area studies had become an asset in search of a problem, an answer that was in large part invented for the bipolarproblématique of the Cold

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