The Problem-Solving Mode: Social Scientists Back Home and the Limits of Critique

• Main Author: Saloma-Akpedonu, Czarina
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Filipino social scientists; knowledge mobilization; problem- solving mode; World Bank; Human Ecology; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/82; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1081&context=sa-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Abundant debates on the problematic positioning of intellectuals in the Global South are typically confined to migrant scholars and to the insider/outsider binary vis-à-vis their object/subject of study. Yet intellectuals back home—both those returning and those who never left—must also forge throug...