| Journal: | Perspectivas (Sao Paulo) |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000375947 |
| ISSN: | 0101-3459 |
| Authors: | Maia, Joao Marcelo Ehlert1 Caruso, Gabriela de Brito1 |
| Institutions: | 1Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentacao de Historia Contemporanea do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Season: | Ene-Jun |
| Volumen: | 41 |
| Pages: | 53-77 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | The field study of sociology of intellectuals has improved a lot within the field of the social sciences. However, it still offers little insight into how intellectual production is generated in non-western or peripheral contexts. The article address this issue by analyzing a case-study focused on Malayan sociologist Syed Hussein Alatas (1928-2007), who was a pioneer in the building of social sciences in Southeast Asia. We compare threads from Alatas’ early work on Islamism and politics with his most well-known book The Myth of the Lazy Native (1977). Our aim is to prove that one must look for the sources of Alatas sociological reflections on postcolonialism, imperialism and captive mind in his writings on Islamism and religion. We consider this hypothesis a challenge to classical assumptions posed by the main works on sociology of intellectuals, which tend to emphasize both secularization and the growing autonomy of academic field as crucial factors for the emergence of modern intellectuals |
| Portuguese abstract | A sociologia dos intelectuais avancou enormemente no campo das ciencias sociais. Entretanto, este campo ainda nos fornece poucos indicios para analisar as condicoes especificas de formacao intelectual em contextos nao-ocidentais e/ou perifericos. Como forma de debater esse problema, o artigo realiza um estudo de caso da trajetoria intelectual de Syed Hussein Alatas (1928- 2007), sociologo malaio que foi pioneiro das ciencias sociais no Sudeste asiatico. Comparamos a argumentacao presente em seus escritos de juventude sobre islamismo e politica com os temas elaborados em seu livro mais celebrado, The Myth of the Lazy Native, de 1977. Procuramos comprovar a hipotese de que pensamento do autor sobre o pos-colonialismo, o imperialismo e a mente cativa tem sua genese na argumentacao sobre os principios da religiao islamica. Consideramos que essa hipotese desafia pressupostos classicos da sociologia dos intelectuais, que destacam o peso da secularizacao e da autonomizacao do campo academico como imprescindiveis para a formacao dos intelectuais modernos |
| Disciplines: | Sociología |
| Keyword: | Historia y teorías de la sociología, Hussein Alatas, Syed, Centro-periferia, Ciencias sociales, Imperialismo |
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