Decentring and Diversifying Southeast Asian Studies: Perspectives from the Region (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789814311571)

This admirable book contains fascinating autobiographical accounts, by some of Southeast Asia's most eminent scholars, concerning their struggle to find their own voices in interpreting the region to which they belong. The book should be indispensable to anyone interested in thinking about knowledge production and its politics in a postcolonial world. In the views of these scholarly Southeast Asians, we are made to see, in very personal terms, the link between the global crisis in the social sciences and the need to find remedies for it that are neither Eurocentric nor parochially anti-Western.-Professor Alexander WoodsideProfessor of Chinese and Southeast Asian HistoryUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Author: Goh Beng Lan
ISBN-10: 981431157X
ISBN-13: 9789814311571
Publisher: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2011
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d