Spatial Social Thought : Local Knowledge in Global Science Encounters.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (333 pages)
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Section I: Global Social Thought -- Chapter 1 - Concepts that Hinder the Progress of Sociological Research: Identity as an Epistemological Obstacle -- Chapter 2 - Isn't Anthropology Already a Multiversalist Discipline?Assessing the Status of Anthropology in Asia -- Chapter 3 - Indigenised while Internationalised?Tensions and Dilemmas in China's Modern Transformation of Social Sciences in an Age of Globalisation -- Chapter 4 - 'Academic Dependence': The World Social Science Arena-a Battlefield among Parochial Thought? -- Section II: Spatialized Thought and Local Knowledge Production -- Chapter 5 - Michel Foucault and the Postcolonial African Theory: A Critical Essay -- Chapter 6 - Knowledge Production: A Perspective from the Periphery -- Chapter 7 - Civilizational Encounter, Cultural Translation, and Social Reflexivity: A Note on the History of Sociology in Japan -- Chapter 8 - The community of sociologists in Morocco facing the internationalization of knowledge -- Chapter 9 - Internationalization of Research in Lebanon: The case of the American University of Beirut -- Section III: Culture in Global Knowledge Encounters -- Chapter 10 - Culture as a Dimension in International Social Science Encounters -- Chapter 11 - The Manifestation of Scientific Cultures: A Sociophilosophical Study of Islamic Scientific Tradition -- Chapter 12 - The Study of Culture within Alternative Vision -- Section IV: Globalizing Local Social Thought -- Chapter 13 - The Transformation Processes in Global Social Knowledge -- Chapter 14 - Can Peripheries Talk Back? Alternative Intellectual Trends in Tamil Nadu and their Possible Lessons for Knowledge-Making Practices outside Intellectual Power Centers -- Chapter 15 - How to Overcome "Oriental" Sociology? -- Authors.