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Title The social sciences in the Asian century / edited by Carol Johnson, Vera Mackie, Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Published Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2015
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Contents Preface and acknowledgments / Carol Johnson, Vera Mackie and Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the social sciences / Vera Mackie, Carol Johnson and Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Part I. Engaging diversity in the social sciences -- Australia in the global dynamic of social science : de-centering Europe and de-mythologising the 'Asian century' / Raewyn Connell -- Beyond divisions and towards internationalism : social sciences in the twenty-first century / Sujata Patel -- Part II. Regional issues in the social sciences -- Inter-Asia referencing and shifting frames of comparison / Chua Beng Huat -- Beyond the culturalist problematic : towards a global social science in the Asian century? / Kanishka Jayasuriya -- Voices and choices in reproductive rights : scholarship and activism / Sylvia Estrada-Claudio -- Beyond Consumasia : the neglected challenges / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Rethinking economics in the Asian century : the market and state in China / Leong H. Liew -- Part III. Australian social sciences in the Asian century and beyond -- Australia's future in the Asian century / Ken Henry -- Asia literacy : a deeply problematic metaphor / Ariel Heryanto -- Challenges for Australian higher education in the Asian century / Simon Marginson
Summary In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transcend national boundaries in addressing regional problems, and the challenges for an increasingly globalised higher education sector in the twenty-first century. The chapters are a combination of theoretical reflections and locally focused case studies of processes that are embedded in global dynamics and the changing geopolitics of knowledge. In an increasingly connected world, these reflections will be of global relevance
Analysis social science
asia-pacific
Notes English
Subject Social sciences -- Pacific Area
Social sciences -- Study and teaching -- History
Education and globalization -- Pacific Area
Society & social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Education and globalization
Social sciences
Social sciences -- Study and teaching
Pacific Area
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Johnson, Carol, 1955- editor.
Mackie, Vera C., editor.
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, editor.
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