Alatas, Farid, Syed

Alternative discourses in Asian social science: responses to Eurocentrism/ Syed Farid Alatas - New Delhi: SAGE, 2006. - 226 p.

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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Orientalism
Social sciences
Social sciences--Philosophy
Eurocentrism