Review of (2013) Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World, PSSM &SIRD. In Journal of Asian Studies, Vol;.72, Issue 4, November 2013; pp 1032-1037. By Eric Thompson, National University of Singapore. (original) (raw)

Local and global knowledge: Social science research on Southeast Asia

2003

Summary New knowledge is produced at great speed and fed into a global epistemic machinery of data banks, publications and think tanks. In reverse global knowledge is absorbed and used locally. On the way towards a knowledge society locally produced knowledge is on the increase. Social science research adds to knowledge on societies. If it is locally produced it can be interpreted as reflexive modernisation in so far as it provides paradigms for an interpretation of social processes and structures.

Globalizing Local Knowledge: Social Science Research on Southeast Asia, 1970-2000

Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2006

New knowledge is produced at great speed and fed into a global epistemic machinery of data banks, publications and think tanks. In reverse global knowledge is absorbed and used locally. On the way towards a knowledge society locally produced knowledge is on the increase. Social science research adds to knowledge on societies. If it is locally produced it can be interpreted as reflexive modernisation in so far as it provides paradigms for an interpretation of social processes and structures. This paper traces the development of social science research on Southeast Asia and its increasing localization. A model is developed to summarize the output of interpretative schemes and published documents. Statistical data on the global absorption of locally produced knowledge are used to measure the way towards a knowledge society. Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines have relatively high local social science output, whereas Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos have low output rates. We diagnose four different paths from 1970 to 2000: Indonesia shows a stable high level of dependence, Malaysia and the Philippines are increasing local output but also increasing dependence, whereas Singapore is increasing output with decreasing dependence on global social science knowledge.

Globalisation of Social Science Research on Southeast Asia

Globalisation of Social Science Research on Southeast Asia." Pp. 103-16 in Knowledge and Social Science in a Globalising World, edited by Wan Zawawi Ibrahim. Kuala Lumpur: Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia ( Malaysian Association of Social Sciences, 2012

Globalisation has improved the dissemination of knowledge. Information and knowledge on Southeast Asian countries is still mainlyu produced in other regions, mainly in Europe, Australia and the US. The paper traces the shift in knowledge production on Southeastasia and shows that internal knowledge productionis increasing, though at vastly different rates. Most publication on Singapore are now produced in Singapore itself. For Vietnam the situation is reverse, though publications in Vietnamese are largely excluded in this analysis.

Southeast Asia and the School of Autonomous Knowledge in International Relations

BERITA: Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group Association for Asian Studies, 2022

Letter from the Chair As I write this letter, we are hopeful that for the first time in two years, many members of our group will be able to be physically present at the upcoming Association for Asian Studies Conference, scheduled to take place in Hawaii between March 24 to March 27, 2022. We hope some of you will be in attendance and that you will be able to attend our annual MSB Studies Group Business Meeting on Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 2:15pm-3:45pm. At the meeting, we'll present our annual awards, discuss plans for the future of our group, and for the first time, will have a small reception, giving us a chance to renew old connections and make new ones with other scholars with interests in the Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei region. (Of course, if the format of the Conference changes, we will let you know. The MSB Business Meeting will also be available virtually; see our Facebook page for updates.) This year, I'll hand over the chair of our group to my friend and colleague, Cheong Soon Gan, of the University of Wisconsin-Superior. When Cheong Soon takes over as chair, I become 'Chair Mentor'-or the ex officio chair, replacing Eric Thompson of the National University of Singapore (NUS), who has guided me wisely during my term. Serving as the Deputy Chair under Cheong Soon will be Elvin Ong, of NUS. Elvin brings both a long record of engagement and a keen commitment to our MSB group. My role as chair has allowed me to connect more deeply with many of our members and I have gained tremendously from my association with this group. This past year we made the best of our virtual connection by sponsoring the first-ever MSB Annual Lecture, featuring James Chin, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania. One of the leading commentators on Malaysian politics, Dr. Chin's lecture, NEP @ 50, assessed the success and failure of the policy and the key lessons from Malaysia's experiment with social engineering. We held the lecture on August 6th via Zoom, precisely fifty years to the day that Tun Razak gave the first speech concerning 'Malaysia's New Economic Policy' to the Economic Bureau of UMNO. The lecture was followed by a commentary by Dr.

The Subject of Power in Southeast Asia (2012)

The books in this series incorporate basic ethnographic descripiion into a wider context of responses to development, globalization and change. Each book embraces broadly the same concems, but the emphasis in each differs as autho¡s choose to concentrate on specific dimensions of change or work out particular conceptual approaches to the issues of development. Areas of concem include: nation-building, technological innovations in agriculture, rural-urban migmtion,

The sociology of South-East Asia; A critical review of some concepts and issues

Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-en volkenkunde, 1994

In the field of SouthEast Asian Studies, as in other area studies programmes, we usually examine the realities of the region under study from our different disciplinary perspectives, though, wherever possible, we use interdisciplinary approaches as well. The study of SouthEast Asia has generated some quite remarkable scholarly contributions in certain I wish to acknowledge the helpful comments of the two anonymous referees of this paper. I have duly followed some of their constructive criticisms and made revisions as well as included additional information and discussion. I hope that I have responded to their main observation; this tumed on the issue of which authors and literature should be covered in a review of this kind. In any review in article form it is difficult to be comprehensive and it has been impossible to consider the substantial literature in applied sociology and the sociology of rural development. This must be the subject of a separate paper on which I am presently engaged. It was also feit that my initial paper gave too much emphasis to English-language publications written by Western observers to the neglect of publications in other European languages and more especially writings by SouthEast Asians in both English and local languages. As I have stated in the text of the paper, my review is a personal one, and I have tried to cover literature which, in my view, has had theoretical significance within and without the region and generated much scholarly debate. I shall be happy to engage in further discussion about the issue of Western versus indigenous sociologies and of the relative merits of the concepts developed by Western observers as against local SouthEast Asian perspectives. But to date it appears that local scholars have mainly been reacting to and criticizing the concepts formulated by outsiders rather than creating their own. VICTOR T. KING, who obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Huil, is currently Dean of Social and Political Sciences there. Specialized in the sociology and anthropology of Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam, he has previously