The Social Sciences in the Asian Century.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (226 pages)
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.