On the Indigenization of Academic Discourse

Alatas, Syed Farid

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“…Relatedly, some have argued that economic domination by the West is paralleled by academic dependence (e.g., African students studying British or French history). Alatas (1993), for example, referred to the phenomenon of mental captivity, where thinking is dominated by Western thought in an ''imitative and uncritical manner'' (p. 308). Concerns relating to academic dependence and mental captivity raise the importance of more indigenous approaches and the degree to which interventions in the developing world adequately account for the longstanding effects of dependency and/or colonialism.…”

Section: International Development Neocolonialism and Neoliberalismmentioning

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The World Bank, support for universities, and asymmetrical power relations in international development

Collins¹,

Rhoads²

2009

High Educ

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This article examines the role of the World Bank in advancing higher education sectors in the developing world, considering in particular the increasing power and strength of a global knowledge-based economy. Given the powerful role that intergovernmental organizations such as the World Bank play in shaping global economic policies, the authors are concerned about how the Bank's policies and actions may limit knowledge generation and capacity building of universities in the developing world. Relatedly, the authors use case studies of the Bank's involvement in Thailand and Uganda to better understand the role it plays in producing and reproducing forms of global hegemony. The authors discuss hegemony in terms of neocolonialism and neoliberalism. Neocolonialism is described as forms of domination advanced by powerful nations and their institutions, while neoliberalism is understood as an economic ideology by which weaker nations may be brought into greater alignment with global trade initiatives.We must take stock of the nostalgia for empire, as well as the anger and resentment it provokes in those who were ruled, and we must try to look carefully and integrally at the culture that nurtured the sentiment, rationale, and above all the imagination of empire.

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Section: International Development Neocolonialism and Neoliberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The World Bank, support for universities, and asymmetrical power relations in international development

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Rhoads²

2009

High Educ

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“…First of all, one should examine the basic theoretical and methodological stance to see if any academic activity is offering a genuinely alternative paradigm which has its root in the cultural resources indigenous to the society (Alatas, 1993). From this point of view, the social history group has failed to provide any culturally independent metatheory or methodology of its own that one could claim to be truly indigenous to Korean culture so that it could claim to be a truly alternative paradigmatic scheme to the existing one prevalent in the field of social history (Kim, 1996).…”

Section: Nationalism and Studies Of Social Historymentioning

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Alternative Discourses in Korean Sociology: The Limits of Indigenization

Kyong-Dong¹

2007

Asian J Soc Sci

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In this paper, I am presenting a view that there is inherently a certain limit to the attempt by the non-Western Third World social scientists to advance alternative discourses in their academic endeavour. This I shall demonstrate by way of a modified modernization theory which stresses the unilaterally 'tilted' process of international acculturation while duly taking into account the effort to indigenize modernization by each late-comer society exposed to the global modernization process. In a way, my version of the modernization theory, in itself is an example of indigenization of social theory; hence offering some alternative discourses to the existing field of development and modernization studies.

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“…A body of literature on those issues already exists (Alatas 1972;Alatas 1993Alatas , 1996Altbach 1977;Kim 1996). What seems noteworthy is the fact that the discourse on these issues in East Asian countries has recently unfolded rather intensively.…”

Section: The Original Sin: Implantation Of Western Social Science In mentioning

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The Rise of East Asia and East Asian Social Sciences Quest for Self-Identity

Lee

2000

JWSR

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The once highly lauded East Asian Miracle turned sour after some East Asian economies, together with Southeast Asian countries, suffered from currency and ?nancial crisis in 1997. It triggered a great deal of discussion of what both local and foreign analysts called Asian crisis. It generated numerous questions and issues that troubled not only policy-makers but also the social science community. The discussion continues even today and perhaps will continue forever without any de?nitive conclusion.

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On the Indigenization of Academic Discourse

Cited by 59 publications

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The World Bank, support for universities, and asymmetrical power relations in international development

The World Bank, support for universities, and asymmetrical power relations in international development

Alternative Discourses in Korean Sociology: The Limits of Indigenization

The Rise of East Asia and East Asian Social Sciences Quest for Self-Identity

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Cited by 59 publications

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The World Bank, support for universities, and asymmetrical power relations in international development

The World Bank, support for universities, and asymmetrical power relations in international development

Alternative Discourses in Korean Sociology: The Limits of Indigenization

The Rise of East Asia and East Asian Social Sciences Quest for Self-Identity

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