Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 2000"

TL;DR: The emancipation of the mind from the shackles of intellectual imperialism is the major condition for the development of a creative and autonomous social science tradition in developing societies as discussed by the authors, and the problems associated with it are discussed in this paper.

TL;DR: The implications of those changes for informal workers' organizations, unions and labour-oriented NGOs are explored in this paper, where the authors describe organized opposition to the industrial relations system and the ways in which labour relations and representation changed during the Habibie interregnum.

TL;DR: The legacy of the New Order will continue to greatly influence Indonesia's post-Soeharto social and political trajectory as mentioned in this paper, which is very important to our understanding of the future course of democratic struggles in Indonesia.

TL;DR: The Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science (SEAJSS) as discussed by the authors has been at the forefront of developing a distinct Southeast Asian social science since 1973, and has been published irregularly in the early 1970s.

TL;DR: The authors locates the Eurasian community's reconciliatory politics in an age marked by a proclivity for primordial purity within complex political, social and economic sub-systems.

TL;DR: The authors defines alternative discourses as a collective term referring to attempts at social science theorizing and conceptualization in Asia and elsewhere that emerged as a result of dissatisfaction with mainstream Euroamerican-oriented models, research agendas, and priorities.

TL;DR: The Pantayo perspective as discussed by the authors was developed from the analysis of the fundamental historical perspectives that arose in the process of Philippine nationhood, and it is the basis of the P/Filipinizatian of the sciences.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe some of the major ways in which the recent electoral reforms changed the Soeharto-era electoral system, including multipartyism, establishment of standing subcommissions, bestowal of subpoena power, and decrease in appointed representatives.

TL;DR: The social sciences in Asia face a peculiar theoretical challenge Heirs to ancient civilizations and traditions of thought and cradles to all of the great world religions, they nevertheless perceive themselves as suffering from a "theoretical deficit" High theory is almost entirely Western and in fact largely European in provenance.

TL;DR: The authors argue that critique is essential but by itself is not sufficient to bring about fundamental changes in the social science domain, and there is a need to ensure that these critiques are not merely superficially co-opted without decentring basic problematic assumptions inherent in mainstream social science traditions, and attend to the task of radically restructuring the institutional base of the social sciences, in order to practise them differently.

TL;DR: The authors explored the controversy surrounding the official history of the September 30, 1965 affair through discussions of the paradox of memory, and the relationship between memory and history, and explored the current controversy around the official histories of the scandal.

TL;DR: The authors discusses how some Balinese political cartoonists reacted to the inequality and exploitation they felt characterized tourism related developments on their heavily visited island of Java, and some of their work, which was done just as the New Order was coming to a close, is displayed and analysed here.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the oral traditions of indigenous societies have always honoured this link in their attempts to formulate "knowledge" and transmit it to following generations, and they suggest that concerned scientists might do well to learn about this method from indigenous societies whose very existence appears to be threatened by a global belief in growth and development based on the application of the results of a science which neglected the link between personal experience and theoretical reflection.

TL;DR: Sociology in Cambodia is a young science whose roots lie in the desire for rebirth, the will to understand the endemic social and political chaos of the country, and the need to provide an answer to the causes of genocide as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify two very important models for developing the economies of some Asian countries, namely, micro-credit and micro-debt, which is a model that should be taken seriously.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the development trajectory of sociology as a discipline and its practice in Singapore, and argued that there have been, at least, three waves in the development of sociological practice.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative framework developed to illuminate changes in Euro-American society between the modem ethic of work and the postmodern aesthetic of consumption is used to analyse the different ways people in Manggarai, Western Flores, reacted to the Indonesian crises.