Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia is a collection of Essays in Honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas first published by Brill Academic Publishers. Globalization, modernization and colonialism have played a pivotal role in the social transformation of Southeast Asian societies. The essays in this volume examine three aspects of this transformation: social change and development, the role of intellectuals, religion and cultural values. The volume honours the distinguished Malaysian sociologist Syed Hussein Alatas and his seminal contributions to the sociology of Southeast Asian societies. They have been written by his present and former colleagues, friends and students. Their contributions, reflect, complement and extend the influence of his ideas on contemporary research and social science scholarship.
Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia (Essays in Honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas)
Edited by RIAZ HASSAN
Essays in Honour of Prof Syed Hussein Alatas
DBP (Second Published, 2006)
341 pages including Appendix and Index
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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
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Author(s) | Ajit Singh Rye, Geoffrey Benjamin, Hans-Dieter Evers, Joachim Matthes, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Joseph B. Tamney, Mona Abaza, Partha Nath Mukherji, Peter L. Burns, Riaz Hassan, Shaharuddin Maaruf, Shamsul Amri Baharuddin, Syed Farid Alatas, Tham Seong Chee, Vineeta Sinha, Wazir Jahan Karim, Zawawi Ibrahim |
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