Social Scientist in South Asia

Name: Social Scientist in South Asia
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Social Scientist in South AsiaPersonal Narratives, Social Forces and Negotiations\nAuthor(s): Achla Pritam Tandon, Gopi Devdutt Tripathy, Rashi Bhargava\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781138369771, 978-1138369771\nSynopsis\nThis 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. \n\nThe 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 .