Local and global social transformation in Southeast Asia : essays in honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas

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Other Authors: Syed Hussein Alatas 1928-2007, Riaz Hassan 1937- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kuala Lumpur Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka 2005
Series:Social sciences in Asia v. 3
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Table of Contents:
  • Global knowledge: the epistemic culture of development
  • Is secularisation a global process? an exercise in conceptual history
  • A question of identity: knowledge and the formation of post-colonial nation-states in Asia
  • Return of the lazy native: explaining Malay/immigrant labour transition in Terengganu plantation society
  • Islam, socialism and marxism: clarifying incompatibilities
  • Academic freedom at the dawn of the millenium: an Asian perspective
  • Scholars and the transformation of confucianism
  • Emerging intellectual traditions of the social sciences: the Malaysian-Asian agenda
  • Alatas and Shari'ati on socialism: autonomous social science and occidentalism
  • Nation-state reformulated: interrogating received wisdom
  • De-centring social sciences in practice through individual acts and choices
  • Values and development: some reflections
  • Syed Hssein Alatas and progressive Islam between Middle East and Southeast Asia
  • Consciousness and polity in Southeast Asia: the long view
  • Institutional order and trust in religious institutions in Muslim societies
  • Religion and utopian thinking among the Muslims of Southeast Asia
  • Meeting Hussein-1956