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day 4 of a 100 days of productivity

i’ve started some of my readings for my class on critical area studies. during my undergraduate degree, i struggled a lot to reconcile my european and white identity with my studies of the middle east. as area studies is deeply rooted in colonialism and us- and euro-centrism, i have often felt like my claims on knowledge were unjustified, and have doubted many times if i should continue in the field. today, however, i learned that it is good to be critical of the ways we produce knowledge about places that are foreign to us, but that the studies of areas is at the same time imperative to diversifying the body of knowledge that exists and is available to us in the disciplines of political science, economics, history, philosophy, etc - most of which is inherently ethnocentric and scarcely critised for it. this has made me feel a great deal more secure about my place in the field of my studies and the ability of my research to contribute something substantial and positive to the world. 🌱

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