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

Table of Contents: “…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…”

Keluarga si Mamat by Lat Dato' 1951-