区域研究中的话语、比较与反身性

Discourse,Comparison,and Reflexivity in Area Studies

作为一个跨学科的研究领域,在区域研究的生存和进一步发展中,有两个至关重要的问题:其一,每个团体的专家都应该专注于他们所做工作的话语性(discursive nature),而不能将其视为一种宇宙的自然状态;其二,他们必须相互交流。除非我们怀有一种自我批判和彻底比较的治学态度,否则区域研究很难蓬勃发展。

Two points are vital for the survival and florescence of area studies as an interdisciplinary research field.First,specialists in each group must focus on the discursive nature of what they do,rather than treating it as somehow a natural condition of the universe.Second,they must talk to each other.Area studies can hardly expect to flourish except by embracing an intellectual attitude that is both critically self-aware and radically comparative.