ISBN:
9783838265261
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Kuhn, Michael Spatial Social Thought : Local Knowledge in Global Science Encounters
DDC:
306.42
Keywords:
Knowledge, Sociology of
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This volume presents perspectives on spatially construed knowledge systems and their struggle to interrelate. Western social sciences tend to be wrapped up in very specific, exclusionary discourses, and Northern and Southern knowledge systems are sidelined. Spatial Social Thought reimagines the social sciences as a place of encounter between all spatially bound, parochial knowledge systems
Abstract:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Section I: Global Social Thought -- Chapter 1 Concepts that Hinder the Progress of Sociological Research: Identity as an Epistemological Obstacle -- First Cause: -- Second Cause: -- Third Cause: -- Fourth Cause: -- First Obstacle: -- Second Obstacle: -- Third Obstacle: -- Fourth Obstacle: -- References -- Chapter 2 Isn't Anthropology Already a Multiversalist Discipline? Assessing the Status of Anthropology in Asia -- Critique of Universalism in the Social Sciences -- But What about Anthropology? -- Anthropology of Asia -- Variations in the Practice of Anthropology -- The Threat of Universalism -- Recent Changes in the Academic Landscape -- References -- Chapter 3 Indigenised while Internationalised? Tensions and Dilemmas in China's Modern Transformation of Social Sciences in an Age of Globalisation -- Introduction -- Background Factors -- Scale of China's Social Sciences Research -- China's International Visibility in Social Sciences -- Research Perspective in China's Social Sciences -- Indigenisation Movement and Its Criticism -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4 'Academic Dependence': The World Social Science Arena-a Battlefield among Parochial Thought? -- I. What Is "Dependence on Ideas"? -- II. The World Science Arena: A Battle among National Social Science Communities about the "Growth of Knowledge"? -- International Science Encounters-A Competition about the "Growth of Knowledge"? -- The World of Science-A Global Battle among Science Communities? -- III. The World Science Arena-A Battlefield of the Scientific Powers-about Scientific Power? -- Opposing Scientific Power by Shifting the Distribution of Scientific Power? -- Academic Dependence Theory Finds Its Power Allies-Speculating on the Imperial Powers of Nations-States -- References -- Section II: Spatialized Thought and Local Knowledge Production
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Chapter 5 Michel Foucault and the Postcolonial African Theory: A Critical Essay -- Introduction -- I. Foucault's Criticism of the Social Sciences -- The death of Man: the analytic of finitude -- Rule, Norm, System -- Psychoanalysis, Ethnology and Linguistics -- II. From Archeology of Science to Subjective Hermeneutics -- How to Think about Discontinuity -- The Discursive Formations Analysis -- Taking Care of Oneself -- III. The Postcolonial African Discourse: From Bayart to Mbembe -- From the Proper Historicity toward the Revenge of the African Societies -- The Postcolonial Situation: Plural Time, Dreams, and Witchcraft -- The Postcolonial State: Violence and Accumulation -- The Melody of Confessed Irrationalism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Knowledge Production: A Perspective from the Periphery -- Introduction -- Knowledge Flows -- Critical References -- Knowledge Trajectories Globalization: An Anthropological Matter -- Local Expressions of Globalization: Mexico and Spain -- Global Spaces -- Global Consumption: From Mexico to the World -- Notes for Debate -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Civilizational Encounter, Cultural Translation, and Social Reflexivity: A Note on the History of Sociology in Japan -- Introduction -- I. Short History of Japan: Organizational Principle, Its Emulating Expansion, and the State -- 1. Japanese Civilization -- 2. Ie Principle -- 3. Emulating Expansion of Ie Principle -- 4. Japanese Modernity -- 5. The Second Modernity -- 6. Tentative Conclusion -- II. Short History of Japanese Sociology -- 1. From Meiji to the Second World War -- 2. The Period after World War II -- 3. The Present State of Japanese Sociology -- 4. Conclusion: Toward a Reflexive Project on History of Sociology in Japan -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 The community of sociologists in Morocco facing the internationalization of knowledge
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The local community of sociologists in Morocco: an unfinished empowerment. -- Cohabitation of three generations of sociologists in Morocco: an outline of analysis. -- Some aspects of the scientific production of the three generations of Moroccan sociologists in time of internationalisation -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 Internationalization of Research in Lebanon: The case of the American University of Beirut -- Introduction -- Some interrogations and hypotheses -- Methodology -- The University as a research institution[3] -- Funding research at AUB -- The very relative scarcity of funding and the real scarcity of time -- AUB faculty members as researchers -- Publication: research or promotion? -- Publishing as a promotion tool -- Science talks in English -- Publication as a regulation instrument -- Collaborations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Section III: Culture in Global Knowledge Encounters -- Chapter 10 Culture as a Dimension in International Social Science Encounters -- Introduction -- Culture as Context of Social Sciences -- Scientific and Disciplinary Cultures -- Cultural Persons: Scientific Minds and Behavior -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11 The Manifestation of Scientific Cultures: A Sociophilosophical Study of Islamic Scientific Tradition -- I. Worldview as the Ultimate Ground of Scientific Activities -- II. Scientific Conceptual Scheme as the Ground of Scientific Activities -- III. Scientific Process and the Manifestation of Scientific Cultures -- IV. Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 12 The Study of Culture within Alternative Vision -- Subject and purpose of this study -- The unclear definitions of culture in contemporary social sciences -- The making of alternative view of culture -- Potential Explanation of HS Framework -- Cultural Sociology as a core discipline
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The concept of culture from the Islamic cognitive viewpoint -- My Spirit/Ruhi = HS -- The cognitive Koranic foundational view of culture -- 1. Canada's Syndrome of the Two Solitudes -- 2. Human Symbols and Cultures Dialogue -- Western science's appeal opens dialogue with the West -- Huntington's Theory in Question -- References -- Section IV: Globalizing Local Social Thought -- Chapter 13 The Transformation Processes in Global Social Knowledge -- Analytical Framework -- Higher Education and Research in the non OECD World -- The Reconfigured World of Higher Education and Qualified Jobs -- Recent Changes in the Globalization of S&T -- The Dilemma about Advanced Education: Local or International -- Prometheus bound: What future can be envisaged for the social sciences? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14 Can Peripheries Talk Back? Alternative Intellectual Trends in Tamil Nadu and their Possible Lessons for Knowledge-Making Practices outside Intellectual Power Centers -- Introduction -- The Great Divide -- Little Magazines of Tamil Nadu -- Art for art sake -- Art for people sake -- Postmodern Magazines -- Little Magazine as Movement -- Little Magazines as Antithesis -- Academic Dependency as Perceived by Little Magazine Movement -- Imitative Stage -- Adaptive Stage -- Synthesis Stage -- Resistive stage -- Inventive stage -- Alternative Discourses and Practices in Little Magazines -- Alternative Practices - Forms - Local Journals -- Alternative Strategies - Form - Language -- Alternative Strategies - Form - Groundedness in folk and literary traditions -- Recruitment and Socialization -- Alternative Strategies - Issues - Foregrounding the Forgotten -- Conclusion -- References -- Tamil Books -- Tamil Journals -- Web sources -- Chapter 15 How to Overcome "Oriental" Sociology? -- 1. Sociology as an empirical science vs. "oriental" Sociology
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2. The Iranian Case -- 3. Reflections on Conditions of overcoming the oriental sociology -- References -- Authors -- Copyright
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