The Area Studies Research Centre (ASRC) is the University of East Anglia’s interdisciplinary centre for the study and generation of creative new thinking and scholarship into the cultures of place and space.
We share a multidisciplinary, multiregional vision, rooted in communities and their contexts, which renegotiates the relationship between the local and the global, speaking directly to the ethical challenges of the twenty-first century.
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.
The centre draws together the work by colleagues across the breadth of arts, sciences, and social sciences:
Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the America.
ASRC is closely aligned with the New Area Studies journal based at UEA.
As with the guiding vision of ASRC, New Area Studies is driven by an expansive and innovative vision of the discipline that speaks to the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century.
Rooted in space, place and community, but moving beyond the traditional constraints of national boundaries, the work of New Area Studies explores the local, the global, and the spaces in between. Its mission is to provide an outlet for truly interdisciplinary, field-defining scholarship.
Building on the work of the community of scholars who have reinvigorated the field in recent years, this journal explores the ways in which our globalized world is still shaped by local issues and fully engage with its most pressing problems.