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Latin America and Beyond: The Case for Comparative Area Studies
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Abstract Comparative Area Studies (CAS) emerges as a new approach in which scholars of Latin American Studies engage systematically with scholars working on other world regions. Adopting a focus on intra-, inter- and cross area comparisons, CAS builds on the traditional strengths of area studies. At the same... view more
Comparative Area Studies (CAS) emerges as a new approach in which scholars of Latin American Studies engage systematically with scholars working on other world regions. Adopting a focus on intra-, inter- and cross area comparisons, CAS builds on the traditional strengths of area studies. At the same time it enables scholars to have a stronger impact on overarching conceptual debates and it may provide new bridges between area studies scholars and the academic communities in the regions studied. However, a comparative area studies approach requires systematic cooperation among scholars of different world regions, and adequate organizational and institutional structures to support them.... view less
Keywords
Latin America; regional research; comparative research; comparative political science
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Free Keywords
Comparative Area Studies; CAS; Lateinamerikastudien
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 111-120
Journal
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (2015) 100
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18352/erlacs.10125
ISSN
0924-0608
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed