Globalizing Local Knowledge: Social Science Research on Southeast Asia, 1970-2000

摘要: New knowledge is produced at great speed and fed into a global epistemic machinery of data banks, publications, think tanks. In reverse, absorbed used locally. Locally on the increase as society moves towards society. Social science research adds to societies. If it locally produced, can be interpreted reflexive modernization in so far provides paradigms for an interpretation social processes structures. This article traces development Southeast Asia its increasing localization. A model developed summarize output interpretative schemes published documents. Statistical absorption are measure extent move Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines have relatively high local output, whereas Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos low rates. We diagnose four different paths from 1970 2000: Indonesia shows stable level dependence, Malaysia but also Singapore with decreasing dependence knowledge.