Overview
Introduction: context : theorizing the new area studies / Susan Hodgett, and Patrick James
New area studies around the globe
New area studies in the borderlands of Asia / Mandy Sadan
New area studies, the problem of Russia and "recursive nationhood" / Stephen Hutchings
Area studies as refugee studies / Peter Gatrell
Latin American studies : what have we achieved and where are we heading? / Christopher Sabatini, and Nicolas Albertoni Gomez
Mastering the current : studying central asia in the 21st century / Claus Bech Hansen
Muslim world studies or Middle East studies? / Rob Gleave
Blurring the boundaries of history and fiction : re-imagining the past and re-defining the present through the lens of saudi women novelists / Zahia Smail Salhi and Ibrahim A. I. Alfraih
Canada in comparative perspective
Transarea studies : gendered mobility in North American literature / Caroline Rosenthal
Area and circus studies: the case of and for a boundary crossing Quebec / Charles R. Batson
Figurations of the border and new area studies / Claude Denis with Abdelkarim Amengay
The state against Canadian studies / Colin Coates
Reflections on new area studies
What have we learned? / Susan Hodgett, and Patrick James
About the contributors.