Social scientist in South Asia

• Titel: Social scientist in South Asia
• Titelzusatz: personal narratives, social forces and negotiations
• Mitwirkende: Tandon, Achla Pritam [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Tripathy, Gopi Devdutt [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Bhargava, Rashi [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Achla Pritam Tandon, Gopi Devdutt Tripathy and Rashi Bhargava
• Ausgabe: First published
• Verlagsort: London ; New York
• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: xvi, 258 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index ; Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
• ISBN: 978-1-138-36977-1
• ISBN: 978-0-367-61560-4
• Schlagwörter: (g)Südasien / (s)Sozialwissenschaftler
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Social scientist in South Asia. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 |(DLC)2020024049
• K10plus-PPN: 1700702718

Abstract

"This book is a collection of autobiographical narratives by leading social scientists working across South Asia. It explores the linkages between their personal experiences and academic pursuits, and analyses how personal, political and professional choices shape knowledge production and effect social transformation. The narratives revisit long standing debates on objectivity, subjectivity, self and other, and attempt to collapse the binaries that have informed the social sciences till now. Highlighting the state of research and pedagogy in the social sciences in the region, the book questions the conventional understanding of the task of the social scientist, and in doing so, blurs the distinction between theory, research, pedagogy and activism. A unique and compelling contribution, this volume will be indispensable to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, history, creative writing, education, politics, biography studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers"--