The role of the social sciences in emerging civil society in Thailand
This paper examines social development as a process and as a historically produced discourse befiore and during the crisis in Southeast Asia. Using the case of Thai social science in different historical periods - from distanced social science to socially engaged social science - to illustrate its r...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0142031026&partnerID=40&md5=d2fe8000943fe162fd37c85f2664ac5d http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/handle/6653943832/7416 |
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| Institution: | Chiang Mai University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This paper examines social development as a process and as a historically produced discourse befiore and during the crisis in Southeast Asia. Using the case of Thai social science in different historical periods - from distanced social science to socially engaged social science - to illustrate its relevance to social development, this paper argues that new modes of knowing is necessary to challenge, rethink, and reconstruct the role of social science based on situated knowledge and contextualised views expressed. |
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