Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia
Essays in Honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas
Biographical note
Riaz Hassan, Ph.D. (1968) in Sociology, The Ohio State University, is Professor of Sociology at The Flinders University of South Australia. His research interests include sociology of Muslim Societies and Urban Sociology. His most recent book is Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society (Oxford University Press, 2003).
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Southeast Asian Studies specialists and students, social scientists, journalists, lawyers, social workers, educated laymen, academic libraries, students of contemporary southeast Asian societies, sociology, political science, cultural studies, history, globalisation and development studies.
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Combining wide-ranging empirical investigations and sophisticated theoretical reflections, this book offers a comprehensive analysis on the interactions between religion and technology, thereby elucidating the complex relationships between spirituality, social and identity formation, sovereignty ...
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Considering seminal sources of doctrine, literary expressions of practice and colonial records of reform, this book challenges dominant perspectives on South Asian Muslim society between 1526-1947, and offers an original paradigm of Islamic doctrine and Muslim practice applicable more broadly.
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This is the first comparative study of business as an important agent of change in the economies of India and China.
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Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s relational concepts of the ‘field’ and ‘habitus’, the book offers an alternative conceptual framework to appreciate the police response to marital violence in the Singapore context.
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Effectively combining ethnographic research and theoretical reflections on the pursuit of the good life in a Tibetan community in the Nepal Himalaya, this fascinating book offers a fresh perspective in seeking to understand contemporary experience of development and globalization.
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This book examines the passion for race in Malaysia through a burgeoning archive of Malaysia-related social texts, ranging from media and technological discourse, popular culture and literary production to historical writings, produced originally in English, Malay and Mandarin Chinese.
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This is the first integrated and in-depth study of the state of science during the Second World War in India. Drawing on a variety of sources, it examines the impact of the war on science under colonial conditions and its consequences for India in transition from bondage to freedom.
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The contributors to this edited volume, covering a range of social issues ranging from family and aging to sexuality and culture and the arts, critically examine the relevance of social policy as it is understood in the West; and addresses the question of whether Singapore's response is unique.
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