In mid-2012 at the Eighth Malaysian Studies Conference held at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, a colleague from an American university and I perused the book exhibit. She proclaimed her enthusiasm for the quantity and quality of publications on display, many of them scarce or unavailable in North America. Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World, co-published by the Malaysian Social Science Association (Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia) and the Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, is one such volume, which scholars in the human sciences within and beyond Southeast Asia would do well to get their hands on. It is an impressive book in many ways and, taken as a whole, an important statement about the development of theory in the social and human sciences from the perspective of Southeast Asia.
Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World includes nineteen chapters (plus an introduction) by twenty-three contributors. It...
