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Areas and Ideas
- Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
- Duke University Press
- Volume 33, Number 3, 2013
- pp. 260-263
- Article
- Additional Information
Bayat’s essay examines the divide between area studies and the social science disciplines. A truly productive engagement with and critical reflection on the social sciences, Bayat argues, is possible only by intimate area knowledge, wide perspectives, a comparative lens, and a search for meaningful knowledge directed at human emancipation.