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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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.

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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