Selected reading list

Books:

• Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan (eds)
  Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives On and Beyond Asia
  Routledge, 2010
  
  
• Appadurai, A
  Globalization and Area Studies. The Future of False Oppositions.
  CASA Centre for Asian Studies, 2000.
  
  • Jan Van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari, Syed Farid Alatas (eds)
  Asian Anthropology
  Routledge, 2006
  
• Kuan-Hsing Chen
  Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization. Duke University Press 2010.
  
  
• Goh Beng Lan (ed)
  Decentring and Diversifying Southeast Asian Studies: Perspectives from the Region
  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011
  
  
• Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater and Tuong Vu
  Southeast Asia in Political Science. Theory Region and Qualitative Analysis.
  Stanford University Press, 2008
  
  
• Georgette Wang
  De-Westernizing Communication Research
  Routledge, 2010
  
  
• Terence Wesley-Smith, Jon Goss (eds.):
  Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning across Asia and the Pacific. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010.
  Available in ebrary
  
  
• Else Øyen (ed)
  Comparative Methodology: Theory and practice in international social research. Sage 1990.
  
  
  Articles:
  
• David Collier, James E. Mahon Jr. (1993)
  Conceptual Stretching Revised: Adapting Categories, in: Comparative Analysis, American Political Science Review 87, pp. 845-855
  
  
• Loren Graham, Jean-Michel Kantor (2007)
  Soft" Area Studies versus "Hard" Social Science: A False Opposition
  Slavic Review 66, pp. 1-19
  
  
• Ariel Heryanto (2000)
  Asians Studying Other Asians in Asia: What Difference Does It Make?
  SEAS Bulletin, Oct-Nov
  
  
• Shuping Huang (2001)
  Sinicizing Anthropology. Theory, Practice, and Human Talent,
  Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, 4.
  
  
• Jack S. Levy (2007)
  Qualitative Methods and Cross-Method Dialogue in Political Science,
  Comparative Political Studies 40.
  
  
• Benjamin L. Schwartz (1980)
  Area Studies as a Critical Discipline,
  Journal of Asian Studies 40, pp. 15-25