Social Scientist in South Asia: Personal Narratives, Social Forces and Negotiations

By: Achla Pritam Tandon and Gopi Devdutt Tripathy and Rashi Bhargava

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Synopsis: 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 analyzes 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 until 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 258 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000214949
Related ISBNs:: 9780367615604, 9781138369771, 9781003105510
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/20/20
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Achla Pritam Tandon, Gopi Devdutt Tripathy and Rashi Bhargava
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Psychology, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Achla Pritam Tandon
Edited by:: Gopi Devdutt Tripathy
Edited by:: Rashi Bhargava