Local and global [[electronic resource] ] : social transformation in Southeast Asia : essays in honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas / / edited by Riaz Hassan

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/2/0959
• Soggetto topico: Social change - Southeast Asia; Globalization - Social aspects; Knowledge, Sociology of
• Soggetto geografico: Southeast Asia Civilization 21st century; Southeast Asia Intellectual life; Southeast Asia Religion
• Altri autori: AlatasHussein, Syed, <1928-2007.> HassanRiaz <1937->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction (Riaz Hassan); Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 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) ; 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) ; 12 Values and Development: Some Reflections (Tham Seong Chee)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); Selected Publications of Syed Hussein Alatas; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The essays in this volume explore three aspects of social transformation of Southeast Asian Societies namely, social change and development, the role of intellectuals, religious and cultural values. They are a tribute to the seminal contributions of the distinguished Malaysian sociologist Syed Hussein Alatas.
• Titolo autorizzato: Local and global
• ISBN: 1-280-86734-5; 9786610867349; 1-4294-5154-8; 90-474-0663-X; 1-4337-0694-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784182603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Social sciences in Asia ; ; v. 3.