Are Transregional Studies the Future of Area Studies?
Matthias Middell
This chapter discusses several implications of the recent Area Studies debate, including hypothesis that are likely to become global studies in light increasingly observed mobility goods, ideas, people, and capital across conventional boundaries. Insisting on continued relevance regions observing different generations area or regional not only coexist but also interact, while successive historical eras provoke new kinds areas as well reflexive configurations old ones, author argues for a transregional perspective. Such perspective bears potential renew relationship between macro-interpretations developed studies, history, interpretations processes within social sciences. Transregional do therefore replace add urgent necessary perspectives, subjects, eventually methodological approaches.
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