Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation

Claudia Derichs is Professor of Comparative Politics and International Development Studies at Philipps University Marburg, Germany, and a senior associate fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg, Germany. Her research interests are Muslim societies and political transition in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, as well as gender and development studies in Asia and the Middle East. She has published various books and articles on Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and the Arab world, and is an advisor to several academic and political institutions, journals and think tanks. Prior to her studies of Japanese and Arabic, she worked as a journalist.

Introduction: Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation
The problem of defining knowledge

Area studies and disciplines

Knowledge production, international relations and global cooperation

Part I: Alternative Epistemologies




The Islamisation of Knowledge
Naguib Al-Attas: Islam and secularism

Isma’il Al-Faruqi: the tauhîdic worldview

Seyyed Hossein Nasr: sacred science

Fazlur Rahman: Islam and modernity

Evaluations of the Islamisation of knowledge project

IoK as a project of its time




Review: Spill-over and diffusion
Islamic resurgence

Islamisation in education and its political reception in Malaysia and Indonesia

Primary to tertiary education

Campus dakwah

Malaysia

Indonesia and the tarbiyah movement

Transregional connections

Diffusion into policymaking and economic practice

Laws and verdicts

Female perspectives on "Islamised" policymaking

Diffusion into economy

Conclusion




Empirical case studies: Islamic economy and Islamic feminism
Assessing religion, economy and advocacy

Commodification, commercialization and aestheticisation of religion

The Islamisation of knowledge and its repercussions

Domestic political contexts

Beyond domestic politics

Islamic economy and sharî’aised workplaces

Gender justice and transnational Islamic feminism

Pulling the strings together

Part II: Areas and Pluri-Locality




At Home Away from Home (Emotional Geographies)
Trans- and pluri-local settings

Knowledge entrepreneurs

Trans- and pluri-local networks

Translocal areas

Conclusion




Tunnel Views in Area Studies
Critical assessments of area studies

Scales and geographies

Areas and disciplines in postcolonial perspective

Conclusion




Connectivity and Cooperation: Concluding Thoughts

Cooperation on a global level

The cooperation hexagon and meccanomics

Religion and international cooperation

Epistemic approaches and behavioural dimensions

Knowledge production, area studies and global cooperation