Spatial social thought : local knowledge in global science encounters /

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Imprint:Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2013]
©2013
Description:331 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9989447
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Other authors / contributors:Kuhn, Michael, editor.
Okamoto, Kazumi, editor.
ISBN:9783838205267
383820526X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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 Léon-Marie Nkolo Ndjodo
  • 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?
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