Alatas, Farid, Syed.

Alternative discourses in Asian social science : responses to Eurocentrism / Syed Farid Alatas. - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2006. - 226 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-216) and index.

The central problem of the social sciences in Asia: critique, diagnosis and prescription -- Theorizing the state of the social sciences -- The structure of academic dependency and the global division of labour in the social sciences -- The definition and variety of alternative discourses in Asia -- Nativist or autonomous social science: a clash of orientations -- Towards an adequate conceptualization of relevance and irrelevance in the social sciences -- Alternative discourses and power -- Rethinking the teaching of the social sciences -- The prospects and future of alternative discourses in Asia.

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Social sciences Social sciences Eurocentrism. Orientalism.

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