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Local and global : social transformation in Southeast Asia : essays in honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas / edited by Riaz Hassan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Social sciences in Asia ; v. 3.
- Social sciences in Asia, 1567-2794 ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change--Southeast Asia.
- Social change.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Southeast Asia--Civilization--21st century.
- Southeast Asia.
- Southeast Asia--Intellectual life.
- Southeast Asia--Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (357 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this volume explore three aspects of social transformation of Southeast Asian Societies namely, social change and development, the role of intellectuals, religious and cultural values. They are a tribute to the seminal contributions of the distinguished Malaysian sociologist Syed Hussein Alatas.
- Contents:
- Introduction (Riaz Hassan); Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 Global Knowledge: The Epistemic Culture of Development (Hans-Dieter Evers); 2 Is Secularisation a Global Process? An Exercise in Conceptual History (Joachim Matthes); 3 A Question of Identity: Knowledge and the Formation of Post-colonial Nation-states in Asia (A.B. Shamsul); 4 Return of the Lazy Native: Explaining Malay/Immigrant Labour Transition in Terengganu Plantation Society (Zawawi Ibrahim); 5 Islam, Socialism and Marxism: Clarifying Incompatibilities (K.S. Jomo)
- 6 Academic Freedom at the Dawn of the New Millennium: An Asian Perspective (Ajit Singh Rye)7 Scholars and the Transformation of Confucianism (Joseph B. Tamney); 8 Emerging Intellectual Traditions of the Social Sciences: The Malaysian-Asian Agenda (Wazir Jahan Karim); 9 Alatas and Shari'ati on Socialism: Autonomous Social Science and Occidentalism (Syed Farid Alatas); 10 Nation-state Reformulated: Interrogating Received Wisdom (Partha Nath Mukherji); 11 De-Centring Social Sciences in Practice through Individual Acts and Choices (Vineeta Sinha)
- 12 Values and Development: Some Reflections (Tham Seong Chee)13 Syed Hussein Alatas and Progressive Islam between the Middle East and Southeast Asia (Mona Abaza); 14 Consciousness and Polity in Southeast Asia: The Long View (Geoffrey Benjamin); 15 Institutional Order and Trust in Religious Institutions in Muslim Societies (Riaz Hassan); 16 Religion and Utopian Thinking among the Muslims of Southeast Asia (Shaharuddin Maaruf); 17 Meeting Hussein-1958 (Peter L. Burns); Selected Publications of Syed Hussein Alatas; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86734-5
- 9786610867349
- 1-4294-5154-8
- 90-474-0663-X
- 1-4337-0694-6
- OCLC:
- 437175293
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