Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia (Essays in Honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas)

Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

I. SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT

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

II. SOCIOLOGY OF INTELLECTUALS

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

III. SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION AND VALUES

12. Values and Development: Some Reflections
– Seong Chee Tham

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

Appendix: Selected Publications of Syed Hussein Alatas
Index