The man who confounded Congress

Amerasia Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 54-61

  Prashad, Vijay ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 65849310972     PISSN: 00447471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. Cynthia Ann Humes, review of All the Mothers are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis by Stanley Kurtz. Journal of Asian Studies 53:1 (1994), 258.
2. George M. Marsden and Bradley J. Longfield, eds., The Secularization of the Academy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992),
3. Christopher Newfield and Avery F. Gordon, "Multiculturalism's Unfinished Business," in Avery F. Gordon and Christopher Newfield, eds., Mapping Multiculturalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1996)
4. and Abdiraham A. Hussein, Edward Said: Criticism and Society (London: Verso Books, 2002).
5. Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 1994), 301-302.
6. The best review of Said's book, and indeed even as it has been pilloried, the best elaboration of what is useful in Said, is Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literature (London: Verso, 1992), 159-219. An issue of the journal Public Culture 6.1 (1993) went after Ahmed's book with surprising vehemence.
7. The documents are collected in Irving Horowitz, ed., The Rise and Fall of Project Camelot: Studies in the Relationship Between Social Sciences and Practical Politics (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1967).
8. Nevertheless, there is now a radical rightist academic militia-much of it provoked by the impact of Said's work-that patrols Middle East Studies: Martin Kramer not only produced a book to denounce the field (Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America, Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, 2001), but also an organization and a website (http://www.campuswatch.org) to monitor the field.
9. This was the worry of critics of the Social Science Research Council when it began to restructure its own dwindling financial house in the 1990s. The SSRC's new direction into transnational or cross-regional work provoked the fear that it would "tear international scholarship from the rich, textured empirical base that has been assiduously developed through decades of research." Robert Huber, Blair Ruble and Peter Stavrakis, "Post-Cold War 'International' Scholarship: A Brave New World or the Triumph of Form Over Substance?" SSRC Items (March-April 1995)
10. quoted in Bruce Cumings, "Boundary Displacement: Area Studies and International Studies During and After the Cold War," in Christopher Simpson, ed., Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War (New York: The New Press, 1998), 179.
11. Toby Alice Volkman, "Introduction," Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies (New York: Ford Foundation, 1999), ix.