The New Area Studies Research Centre (NASRC) is the University of East Anglia’s interdisciplinary centre for the study and creation of new thinking and scholarship on global cultures of place and space.

Sitting on the cutting edge of the field, our diverse, world-leading research team shares a multidisciplinary, multiregional vision, rooted in communities and their contexts. Together, our scholarship renegotiates the relationship between the local and the global, speaking directly to the ethical challenges of the twenty-first century while charting new theoretical directions for the field.

Such boundary crossing and genre blurring allows us to approach Area Studies from new directions, in which fixed geographical specificities and disciplinary borders give way to broader thinking about social justice and intellectual intersections.