Pub Date : 1998-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962603
D. Austin-Broos
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Pub Date : 1998-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962597
S. Reyna
This article explains why the community of scholars in the current conjuncture of the capitalist development of power experiences problems distinguishing between right and might and suggests a way of reducing such difficulties. It claims that the mightys’ operation of regimes of truth in conjunction with intellectuals’ adoption of postmodern sentiments erodes the ability to judge whether those with might have it right. This position is argued by considering a particular assertion of righteousness. The Indonesian and US mighty, as represented by Geertz, claimed that the Indonesian military's 1965–66 massacres were in self‐defense. “Causal moral analysis” is formulated as a method of assessing this claim.
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Pub Date : 1998-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962594
S. Reyna, N. Schiller
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Pub Date : 1998-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962602
B. Santos
Though different in style and approach these three texts have much in common. Even if mentioned explicitly only in Reyna, the debate on the modern versus the postmodern is present in all of them; all of them question the validity of modern scientific knowledge, as well as the dichotomy of subject/object that makes privileged validity claims possible; all of them are keenly aware of the cultural, political, and institutional embeddedness of modern science; finally, the theme of the Cold War and of Cold War science is present in all of them. In spite of all these convergences, however, there are significant differences among the three papers. While Price and Hancock present a critique of modern science, Reyna criticizes Geertz's postmodern science from a modernist viewpoint. While, for Price, the Cold War political establishment and its current reincarnations define populations and themes as objects of imperialist intervention which the Cold War scientific establishment transforms into objects of scientific inquiry, for Hancock, both the relation between subject and object and the process of intervention are more complex, since neither of them can operate without the active cooperation of the "object" or the "intervened." On the one hand, the subject/object relation is mediated by the presence of the "indigenous scholar," who is both a subject and an object of knowledge, a form of personalized authentic native knowledge provided by someone that is simultaneously an informant or student and a professor. On the other hand, the Cold War politico-scientific intervention is made possible by the active participation of local elites, interested in converting their specific kind of nationalism into the (general)
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Pub Date : 1998-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962599
E. Ross
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Pub Date : 1998-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962600
Antonio Lauria‐Perricelli
{"title":"Knowledge and truth? Anthropological research, foundations, universities, and political and social forces","authors":"Antonio Lauria‐Perricelli","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962600","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78558901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962601
J. Gledhill
{"title":"Contesting Regimes of Truth: Continuity and Change in the Relationships Between Intellectuals and Power","authors":"J. Gledhill","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72966634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962604
S. Feuchtwang
{"title":"Political judgement and academic freedom","authors":"S. Feuchtwang","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87871865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962598
R. Reddock
{"title":"(Post) Colonial encounters of the academic kind: The national security question","authors":"R. Reddock","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962598","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88310941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962595
M. Hancock
This essay contextualizes and interrogates Milton Singer's When a Great Tradition Modernizes, an influential study of Sanskritic Hinduism and its elite exponents in urban south India. Singer's fieldwork (1954–1964) depended heavily on the assistance of an Indian Sanskritist, V. Raghavan. I focus on their collaboration as it is represented in the published works of both, and consider its implications for South Asia area studies in the US. In their reliance on ethnographic methods, area studies projects offered transnational sites for the consolidation of nationalist discourses—for while Raghavan strategically used ethnographic interactions to fashion and disseminate elite nationalism in India, Singer used India (as mediated by Raghavan) as a “case” in the formulation of civilizational studies and theories of modernization. Analysis of this case illuminates the current contradictions generated by area studies’ reliance on paradigms of nationhood. Deconstruction of the “nation” is coupled with reconstruction...
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