Beasley-Murray, Tim and Murawski, Michal and Bracewell, Wendy (Eds).
(2025)
Anti-Atlas: Critical area studies from the East of the West.
[Book].
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
The invasion of Ukraine is the latest in a series of upheavals that have made eastern Europe a telling point from which to consider the place of area studies in the construction of knowledge about the world. The politics of academic knowledge about ‘areas’ now feels more urgent than ever. Anti-Atlas plays with the politics of the conventional atlas, with its assumptions about knowledge and power, its hierarchies of value, and its simplifications. It presents a collection of essays written by an eclectic mix of authors from Europe, both east and west, the UK and North America. These entries analyse a necessarily incomplete selection of topics, but they all engage with the question of how an approach to area can be ‘critical’ - and each entry demonstrates different aspects of criticality. The editors develop a manifesto for such criticality, calling attention to positions that are heterodox, area-informed or vernacular, ‘undisciplined’, and collaborative. Through a variety of genres, including the scholarly article, the travel guide, autobiographical reflections and data visualisations, Anti-Atlas provides readers with a diverse series of intellectual resources, asking them to think critically about the ways in which we construct the world by dividing it into pieces.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Anti-Atlas: Critical area studies from the East of the West |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800087811 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800087811 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087811 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2025 Text © Contributors, 2025 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Beasley-Murray, T., Bracewell, W. and Murawski, M. (eds). 2025. Anti-Atlas: Critical area studies from the East of the West. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087811 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Social Science, Eastern Europe, Decolonial Studies, Criticality, Post-Socialist, Area Studies |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Arts and Sciences (BASc) |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204177 |
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