#area studies

The list of videos/references to understand more about orientalism mentioned by nonnie

Gallavich theory, required reading for the Mickey Milkovich major

i’ve started some of my readings for my class on critical area studies. during my undergraduate degree, i struggled a lot to reconcile my european and white identity with my studies of the middle east. as area studies is deeply rooted in colonialism and us- and euro-centrism, i have often felt like my claims on knowledge were unjustified, and have doubted many times if i should continue in the field. today, however, i learned that it is good to be critical of the ways we produce knowledge about places that are foreign to us, but that the studies of areas is at the same time imperative to diversifying the body of knowledge that exists and is available to us in the disciplines of political science, economics, history, philosophy, etc - most of which is inherently ethnocentric and scarcely critised for it. this has made me feel a great deal more secure about my place in the field of my studies and the ability of my research to contribute something substantial and positive to the world. 🌱

Sheldon Pollock

Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature. Cambridge University Press; 1995.

All about my skills, not me or mine: Vignettes of precarity among skilled Indian professionals in the UK

jewish studies: you are jewish or "feel a spiritual connection to judaism" either way your vibe is very nerdy academic jewish archetype in a way that is either makes you incredibly endearing or insufferable to be around. you feel like my kin bc we have thoughts on poland

I do what I do. The typicals of pure reality are insane, but someone may refer to the ordinary things with effervescent sound and continous architecture: oh, in fact the continuity of sheer reality is automatic, and someone may see the essences of things corresponding to the ordinary thing that we know and love because there is something arousing about this ordinary facade that is full of love and binary code that moves in sheer motions towards the silliness of sheer nonsense. I make sense of the ordinary things, because I want to make sense of the things that happen. Nevertheless, I am stuck in the craziness of being yourself and I don't make sense of anything because I am a fool. So basically I reform myself and I generate concepts in a continuous flow that is the same things as everything, because we do what we do and we like it that way. But maybe there is something silly going on in the end: who knows? I am just a silly fool who doesn't do anything right, but I do what I can and I am basically just reconsidered in the folly of being yourself and of being alive. So that's where it all comes together: silliness and war, marshal and trooper, peasant and knight. We see that it is all connected.