• 수완나부미
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.77-88
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• 2015

This article will review the historical background of the development of area studies and the adoption of global studies in Japan. Global studies, which focuses on global issues such as migration, mainly developed in the United States and Europe, but more recently found home in universities in Japan. A characteristic of the development of global studies in Japan is that specialists in area studies have played an important role in institutionally establishing this new discipline. "Japanese area studies" has an affinity with the concepts of global studies contrary to the situation with area studies in the United States. Conventional academic societies based on area studies in Japan, however, have been forced to change as a result of globalization and the establishment of global studies in Japan. I would like to point out that there is some discrepancy between the scholarship boundaries and the actual research and educational program in area studies. I will also discuss how we should reconsider the concept of "area" by tackling global issues.

• 수완나부미
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.89-114
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• 2018

In this paper, I argue that while area studies in the United States has declined since the end of the Cold War, its area impulse of has emerged in other fields of inquiry, particularly Asian-American Studies. Accordingly, I explain how the collective reflections of Filipino-American scholars on empire, migration, diaspora, and identity point to the consolidation and viability of the transpacific as an area, which spans both the United States and the Philippines. Addressing several problems with this straddling-mainly as criticisms of Filipino-American Studies-I show how the transpacific serves as a bridge between Philippine Studies and Filipino-American Studies, and helps define the boundaries and overlaps between both fields of inquiry.

• 수완나부미
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.133-148
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• 2017

In spite of being one of the first countries in Asia to establish an institution devoted to the study of the Asian region, area studies in the Philippines has languished over the years. In contrast, area studies programs of her neighbors have grown by leaps and bounds, invigorated by both public and private support. This observation becomes more glaring as Filipino scholars have made a name for themselves in the field of Southeast Asian Studies abroad. The paper is an appraisal of the current state of Southeast Asian area studies and the extent of its operation by the Philippines' top four universities, namely: the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines, the Ateneo de Manila University, the De La Salle University, and the University of Santo Tomas. Starting from the inception of area studies in the mid-1950s leading to a template patterned after the North American - European model, the paper then describes the challenges and its decline in the 80s toward its progression on a paradigm defined by the growing importance of, and actors within, the region. The paper expresses the view that one, the role of the government was both a boon and a bane in the development of area studies; and two, that the rapid economic growth and immense integration in the region in the last two decades gave a new impetus to Southeast Asian area studies, an enormous opportunity to capitalize on for Philippine universities.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제22권
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• pp.279-301
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• 2011

This paper is aimed to examine the current research and educational problems of foreign studies in Korean universities and review some alternative ways. Area studies as foreign studies have several characteristics which are different from those of the other research disciplines. It is a research and educational program that promotes comprehensive understanding about political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena of a specific area in the world. For better understand 'others', researchers in the field of area studies must explain the whole mechanism of the area, which could be revealed in terms of the very existence of its reality. Foreign studies are accomplished with joint-research method, collaborating two or more different research disciplines and based on the contemporary system of knowledge accumulation and educational program. Therefore, the critical issue can be gradually taken on a political and social characteristic. At this point, research and educational manner in foreign studies field in Korea should be changed to secure the academic reflections of temporality, sociality, placeness using a new paradigm such as complexity.

• 예술인문사회 융합 멀티미디어 논문지
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.409-419
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• 2016

일반적으로 지역학 연구를 수행하는데 있어 연구 동향을 파악하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 그러나 지역학의 연구 분야는 매우 다양하며, 모든 지역학 연구 분야에 대한 연구가 동시에 진행되는 것은 매우 어렵다. 이로 인해 지역학연구는 시대에 따라 연구 분야 및 연구 동향이 변화 하였다. 이와 함께 지역학의 연구 동향을 이해하려는 관심이 꾸준히 증가되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 국내의 지중해지역 연구를 대상으로 동시 출현 키워드를 기반으로 연구 동향을 분석한다. 이를 위하여 국내 지중해지역 연구의 대표 학술지인 『지중해지역연구』에 게재된 논문들을 대상으로 논문 유형 분석 및 키워드를 추출하여 정제 과정을 거쳐 동시 출현 키워드를 생성하였다. 세부적으로 논문의 유형 분석을 통해 기본적인 동향 분석을 수행하였고, 논문의 동시 출현 키워드를 이용하여 단순 정량 분석보다 심층적인 분석을 수행하고, 동시출현 키워드를 통해 생성된 네트워크 그래프 형태의 시각화를 통해 분석을 수행한다.

• 예술인문사회 융합 멀티미디어 논문지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.907-916
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• 2017

최근 ICT융합과 관련하여 다양한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 학문 분야에서도 ICT융합에 대한 요구가 증가하는 추세이며 그 사례로 디지털 인문학(Digital Humanities)이나 지역정보학(Area Informatics)등의 분야가 대표적이다. 지역연구는 특정지역에 대한 문화를 통합적으로 연구하는 것을 의미한다. 이와 관련하여 해외지역을 전문적으로 연구하는 연구자들은 해당지역과 관련된 정보를 획득하기 위해 웹사이트를 활용하는 것이 일반적이다. 부산외국어대학교 지중해지역원에서 운영 중인 다국어 지중해 웹서비스 시스템 (Multilingual Mediterranean Web Service System, 이하 MMWS)은 해외지역 중에서도 지중해지역을 연구하는 연구자 또는 일반인을 대상으로 전문정보 및 일반정보를 제공하는 웹사이트이다. 본 논문에서는 해외지역 웹사이트 MMWS를 분석하고 이 분석 결과를 기반으로 웹사이트를 활성화하는 방안에 대해 알아본다. 세부적으로 로그 분석을 통해 MMWS를 분석하며 이를 위한 프로그램으로 구글에서 제공하는 로그 분석 시스템인 구글 애널리틱스를 활용한다. 또한 웹사이트 활성화 방안으로 ICT융합 콘텐츠를 웹사이트에 활용하는 방안에 대해 연구한다.

• 수완나부미
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.201-224
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• 2020

The term Anthropocene encapsulates the idea that the human impact on earth has already reached the level of a geological force with catastrophic consequences, such as global warming or climate change. The envisioning of an apocalyptic future of the possible demise of the human race is central to this idea. This paper seeks to explore the implications of the Anthropocene on the very idea of history and area studies. Does the planetary scope of the Anthropocenic condition, and the concerted effort in the global scale in the need to address it, mean the end of area studies, which is premised on a particularity of an area? Is a posthumanist history feasible? If yes, how can it really help address the problem? Or, it will merely muddle the issues?

• 수완나부미
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.157-180
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• 2018

Area studies, including Asian and Southeast Asian studies, in the post-Cold War era have been facing an epochal challenge that is rooted in two conditions: on the one hand, the end of the Cold War and the fading geopolitical rationale, and on the other, the emergence of the technology-driven transformation of the global economy and society. The consequences thus far are paradoxical: 1) While the technology-led transformation needs a workforce with critical and innovative abilities, higher education becomes more hyper-utilitarian; 2) While the transformation instigates increasing diversity of identities in global cultures, many countries thrive for STEM education at the expense of learning languages and cultures, including area studies which are essential for diversity. Southeast Asian studies programs need to change in response to these new conditions. These changing conditions and paradoxes, nevertheless, take different forms and degrees in the American, European and Asian academies, thanks to their different histories of higher education. The prospects for Southeast Asian Studies in these various academies are likely to be different too.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.457-464
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• 2012

Small area estimation is a statistical inference method to overcome the large variance due to the small sample size allocated in a small area. Recently some nonparametric estimators have been applied to small area estimation. In this study, we suggest a nonparametric mixed effect small area estimator using kernel smoothing and compare the small area estimators using labor statistics.

• 수완나부미
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.59-76
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• 2015

This paper proposes an approach in Southeast Asian studies using a post-colonial framework in the study of post-colonial Southeast Asia. This framework is based on the sociology of knowledge that analyzes the dialectical relationship between science, ideology, and discourse. Post-colonial studies is critical of the concept of universality in science and posits that a scientific statement of a society cannot stand alone, but is made by authors themselves who produce, use, and claim the so-called scientific statement. Several concepts in post-colonial theories can be used to develop area studies, i.e. colonial discourse, subaltern, mimicry, and hybridity. Therefore, this study also explores these concepts to develop a more comprehensive understanding of Southeast Asian culture. The development of post-colonial theories can be used to respond to the hegemony of social theories from Europe and the United States. The main contribution of area studies in the field of the social sciences and humanities is in revealing the hidden interests behind the universal social sciences.