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.