Social Scientist in South Asia Personal Narratives Social Forces and Negotiations

Description

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 affect 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. | Social Scientist in South Asia Personal Narratives Social Forces and Negotiations