In recent years, a backlash has emerged againstareastudies.
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The individualareastudiesaddress common themes concerning the appointment and responsibilities of municipal employees and the creation and diffusion of professional values and identities.
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Rather, the old, single framework version ofareastudiesthat focused on the static lines and boundaries between "peoples", "cultures", and "civilizations" has become outdated.
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As an antidote to the theoretical barrenness ofareastudies, the author offers the following argument.
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It is no secret to this audience that severe questions have been raised in recent years about the usefulness ofareastudies.
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Such calls have been heeded and indeed there has been a flood of smallareastudies.
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Ironically, it is in the ' production of new facts ' - the curse ofareastudies!
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They speak to each other and to broader social theory andareastudiesconcerns in multiple ways.
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The book provides a good example of why theoretical engagement is necessary for accurate inquiry inareastudiesresearch.
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What struck me about the articles and reviews in this issue, however, was how little they resembled the caricature painted ofareastudiesby its critics.
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What is needed is a new, alternativeareastudiesthat imposes a less narrow view of the world, one that is more in tune with contemporary global realities.
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Europeanareastudiessounds strangely anomalous.
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The individual growthareastudieslooked at the long term sustainable growth options within each area.
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But neighbourhoods did not solve the problems, and the city as a whole became a study area through the innerareastudies—the total approach.
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That should have been attempted in 1972 and earlier when the innerareastudieswere started, and that must still be achieved today.
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