De-coding Our Scholarship: The State of Research in Computers and Writing from 2003–2008

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Bowie ◽  
Heather A. McGovern
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Computers And Writing ◽  
State Of Research

Studies of Islam, Economics, and Governance

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-70
Author(s):  
Florence Eid
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Islamic Values

IntroductionThis paper is a report on the state of research in two areas of Islamicstudies: Islam and economics and Islam and governance. I researched andwrote it as part of my internship at the Ford Foundation during the summerof 1992. On Discourse. The study of Islam in the United States has moved far beyondthe traditional historical and philological methods. This is perhapsbest explained by the development of analytically rigorous social sciencemethods that have contributed to a better balance between the humanisticconcerns of the more traditional approaches and efforts at systematizingthe study of Islam and classifying it across boundaries of communities,religions, even epochs. This is said to have s t a d with the developmentof irenic attitudes towards Islam, which changed the direction of westemorientalist writings from indifference (at best) and often open hostility toand contempt of Islamic values (however they were understood) to phenomenologicalworks by scholars who saw the study of Islam as somethingto be taken seriously and for its own sake, which is best exemplifiedby Clifford Geertz's Islam Observed.The work of Edward Said contested this evolution, and the publicationof his Orientalism has been described as "a stick of dynamite"' that,despite its impact in mobilizing a reevaluation of the field, was unwarrantedin its pessimism. In any case, the field has continued to evolve,with the most powerful force moving it being the subject itself. Thephenomenological/orientalist approach, if we can point to one today, ...

The state of research

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth van Houts
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
State Of Research

Systematic Review: The State of Research Into Youth Helplines

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharna L. Mathieu ◽  
Riaz Uddin ◽  
Morgan Brady ◽  
Samantha Batchelor ◽  
Victoria Ross ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Research

Falsehood or untruth?

Antiquity ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (268) ◽  
pp. 408-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Guidon ◽  
A.-M. Pessis
Keyword(s):  
Conference Proceedings ◽  
The State ◽  
Peopling Of The Americas ◽  
State Of Research

In December 1993 Brazilian, European and American researchers joined forces in São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí, Brazil, to analyse the state of research on the peopling of the Americas (conference proceedings in press).

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