... Prize Symposium; Doing Decentered History .” History and Theory , no. 50 ( 2011 ): 203 – 9 . Sharafi Mitra . “ South Asian Legal History .” Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences 11 ( November 2015 ): 309 – 36 . ...

...Sanil V. As a response to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror, Sanil’s essay explores the relation between ethics and the social sciences. The essay engages the work of Kant, Aristotle, Martin Heidegger, and Michel Foucault, among others, to make its argument. The Cracked...

...Mayssoun Sukarieh Abstract Over the last few years, there has been a resurgence of interest in addressing the problematic politics and ethics of global North/global South relations within social science research projects. This essay outlines the ethical concerns arising from the funded research...

...Sudipta Kaviraj Social science theory, the concepts and argumentative architecture through which scholars make sense of the vast processes of modernity—industrialization, étatisation, secularity, individuation—generated the first wave of theoretical concepts in the crucible of European history...

...Mamadou Diouf Since independence, African scholars from different traditions (African, Islamic and Western), intellectuals, and politicians have been actively engaging with humanities and social sciences originating from the West and received through the conduit of colonial rule and imperial...

...Asef Bayat Bayat’s essay examines the divide between area studies and the social science disciplines. A truly productive engagement with and critical reflection on the social sciences, Bayat argues, is possible only by intimate area knowledge, wide perspectives, a comparative lens, and a search...

... of silence in the social sciences today. Finally, it proposes an alternative view on decolonizing the social sciences and historiography and on decentering future ethical research. This article presents a history of fascist genocide in Libya and Italy based on the agency and a narrative of the Libyans who...

... with Hinduism often resulted in advocacy campaigns and the social sciences subsuming Dalit experiences into the social predicament of Hindus as a religious minority group. The decoupling of caste and religious minorities in the political and social domains in the aftermath of advocacy campaigns has led...

...K. Satyanarayana Responding to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory, Satyanarayana’s essay examines the significance of bringing Dalit experience into the public debate with reference to the practice of social sciences in particular...

... with the Indian Ocean.” The authors take a concept that is in wide currency in the humanities and social sciences and then reimagine it creatively in the contexts that they study. In doing so, they decenter familiar ways of seeing and knowing, offering a new decolonial lens to make sense of the circularities...

...Suren Pillay This article offers a few vignettes on the humanities in contemporary Africa. It suggests that the different fates of the humanities and social sciences have corresponded to changes in political conjunctures, particularly in relation to nationalism in the wake of independence...

...Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Sunder Rajan’s essay responds to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory . Its primary focus is the authors’ arguments regarding the absence of original theory in the social sciences in India, and the case they make...

... filth: bemoaning the dirtiness of their everyday lives but also deploring others' emotional distancing as filthy. In order to unpack their divergent perspectives, this article brings together several fields of scholarship: social science debates about filth in public space in postcolonial India...

...Fadi A. Bardawil “The Solitary Analyst of Doxas: An Interview with Talal Asad” explores Asad's intellectual trajectory. In Bardawil and Asad's intergenerational conversation Asad discusses his critique of the neutrality of the social sciences, his own critique of Orientalist scholarship (while...

...Mayssoun Sukarieh; Lila Abu-Lughod Abstract Rethinking research practices and querying knowledge production have emerged as part of a popular movement in the academy to “decolonize” the social and human sciences. This introduction to a forum suggests that if decolonizing has become something...

... of the dataset might have made it easier for such facts to slip as unnecessary details. 18 Finally, while there is a growing societal rejection of products tested on animals, experiments are the fastest-growing method within articles of this dataset. The use of such methods in the social sciences raises...

... the 1970s, and in particular since the 1990s. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 China humanities Chinese Academy of Social Sciences higher education An earlier, longer version of this article was translated from the Chinese by Anatoly Detwyler. References Hongbo Zhang...

... ism and theory production more carefully than Mirror are organized around a critique of the bi- is presented by the Guru-­Sarukkai debate. Sun- furcated structure of Indian social science knowl- der Rajan is skeptical of locating the possibility edge production that pits “theoretical Brahmins...

.../Pakistan/Pakistan_Higher_Education_Medium_Term_Development_Framework_2011-2015.pdf . ———. “Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities.” Higher Education Commission website . Accessed November 21, 2015 . www.hec.gov.pk/insidehec/divisions/aeca/socialsciencesartshumanities . ———. “Statistical Information...

... systems, the place of science and humanities in society, globalization and soft power, the meaning of humanistic inquiries, and so on. Wang Fan-s­ en is a preeminent historian and vice president for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His discussion suggests that the biggest...