Local And Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia; Essays In Honour Of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas (Social Sciences in Asia)

Introduction (Riaz Hassan)......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 13
List of Contributors......Page 15
1 Global Knowledge: The Epistemic Culture of Development (Hans-Dieter Evers)......Page 19
2 Is Secularisation a Global Process? An Exercise in Conceptual History (Joachim Matthes)......Page 35
3 A Question of Identity: Knowledge and the Formation of Post-colonial Nation-states in Asia (A.B. Shamsul)......Page 47
4 Return of the Lazy Native: Explaining Malay/Immigrant Labour Transition in Terengganu Plantation Society (Zawawi Ibrahim)......Page 61
5 Islam, Socialism and Marxism: Clarifying Incompatibilities (K.S. Jomo)......Page 87
6 Academic Freedom at the Dawn of the New Millennium: An Asian Perspective (Ajit Singh Rye)......Page 99
7 Scholars and the Transformation of Confucianism (Joseph B. Tamney)......Page 113
8 Emerging Intellectual Traditions of the Social Sciences: The Malaysian-Asian Agenda (Wazir Jahan Karim)......Page 149
9 Alatas and Shari'ati on Socialism: Autonomous Social Science and Occidentalism (Syed Farid Alatas)......Page 177
10 Nation-state Reformulated: Interrogating Received Wisdom (Partha Nath Mukherji)......Page 197
11 De-Centring Social Sciences in Practice through Individual Acts and Choices (Vineeta Sinha)......Page 209
12 Values and Development: Some Reflections (Tham Seong Chee)......Page 235
13 Syed Hussein Alatas and Progressive Islam between the Middle East and Southeast Asia (Mona Abaza)......Page 253
14 Consciousness and Polity in Southeast Asia: The Long View (Geoffrey Benjamin)......Page 277
15 Institutional Order and Trust in Religious Institutions in Muslim Societies (Riaz Hassan)......Page 307
16 Religion and Utopian Thinking among the Muslims of Southeast Asia (Shaharuddin Maaruf)......Page 331
17 Meeting Hussein—1958 (Peter L. Burns)......Page 347
Selected Publications of Syed Hussein Alatas......Page 351
Index......Page 355