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The Social Sciences in the Asian Century.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (226 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781925022599
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Social Sciences in the Asian CenturyLOC classification:
  • H53.P16.S63 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the social sciences -- Part I: Engaging Diversity in the Social Sciences -- 2. Australia in the global dynamics of social science: De-centring Europe and de-mythologising the 'Asian Century' -- 3. Beyond divisions and towards internationalism: Social sciences in the twenty-first century -- Part II: Regional Issues in the Social Sciences -- 4. Inter-Asia referencing and shifting frames of comparison -- 5. Beyond the culturalist problematic: Towards a global social science in the Asian Century? -- 6. Voices and choices in reproductive rights: Scholarship and activism -- 7. Beyond consumasia: The neglected challenges -- 8. Rethinking economics in the Asian Century: The market and the state in China -- Part III: Australian Social Sciences in the Asian Century and Beyond -- 9. Australia's future in the Asian Century -- 10. Asia literacy: A deeply problematic metaphor -- 11. Challenges for Australian higher education in the Asian Century.
Summary: In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. The chapters are a combination of theoretical reflections and locally focused case studies of processes that are embedded in global dynamics.
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Intro -- Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the social sciences -- Part I: Engaging Diversity in the Social Sciences -- 2. Australia in the global dynamics of social science: De-centring Europe and de-mythologising the 'Asian Century' -- 3. Beyond divisions and towards internationalism: Social sciences in the twenty-first century -- Part II: Regional Issues in the Social Sciences -- 4. Inter-Asia referencing and shifting frames of comparison -- 5. Beyond the culturalist problematic: Towards a global social science in the Asian Century? -- 6. Voices and choices in reproductive rights: Scholarship and activism -- 7. Beyond consumasia: The neglected challenges -- 8. Rethinking economics in the Asian Century: The market and the state in China -- Part III: Australian Social Sciences in the Asian Century and Beyond -- 9. Australia's future in the Asian Century -- 10. Asia literacy: A deeply problematic metaphor -- 11. Challenges for Australian higher education in the Asian Century.

In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. The chapters are a combination of theoretical reflections and locally focused case studies of processes that are embedded in global dynamics.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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