Table of Contents

Foreword
Section I: Global Social Thought
1. Concepts that Hinder the Progress of Sociological Research: Identity as an Epistemological Obstacle, by Youssef Salameh
2. Isn't Anthropology Already a Multiversalist Discipline? Assessing the Status of Anthropology in Asia, by Nestor Castro
3. Indigenised while Internationalised? Tensions and Dilemmas in China's Modern Transformation of Social Sciences in an Age of Globalisation, by Rui Yang
4. 'Academic Dependence': The World Social Science Arena—a Battlefield among Parochial Thought?, by Michael Kuhn
Section II: Spatialized Thought and Local Knowledge Production
5. Michel Foucault and the Postcolonial African Theory: A Critical Essay, by Léon-Marie Nkolo Ndjodo
6. Knowledge Production: A Perspective from the Periphery, by Carmen Bueno
7. Civilizational Encounter, Cultural Translation, and Social Reflexivity: A Note on the History of Sociology in Japan, by Shujiro Yazawa
8. The community of sociologists in Morocco facing the internationalization of knowledge, by Kamal Mellakh
9. Internationalization of Research in Lebanon: The case of the American University of Beirut, by Sari Hanafi, Rigas Avanitis, Justine Baer
Section III: Culture in Global Knowledge Encounters
10. Culture as a Dimension in International Social Science Encounters, by Doris Weidemann
11. The Manifestation of Scientific Cultures: A Sociophilosophical Study of Islamic Scientific Tradition, by Alparslan Açikgenç
12. The Study of Culture within Alternative Vision, by Mahmoud Dhaouadi
Section IV: Globalizing Local Social Thought
13. The Transformation Processes in Global Social Knowledge, by Hebe Vessuri
14. Can Peripheries Talk Back? Alternative Intellectual Trends in Tamil Nadu and their Possible Lessons for Knowledge-Making Practices outside Intellectual Power Centers, by Kumaran Rajagopal
15. How to Overcome "Oriental" Sociology?, by Ebrahim Towfigh, Shirin Ahmadnia
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