Localising Theories – Reading List

Books

Acharya, Amitav and Barry Buzan (eds.) (2010) Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives On and Beyond Asia. Routledge
Bremen, Jan Van, Eyal Ben-Ari and Syed Farid Alatas (eds.) (2006) Asian Anthropology. Routledge
Chen, Kuan-Hsing (2010) Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization. Duke University Press
Goh, Beng-Lan (ed.) (2011) Decentering and Diversifying Southeast Asian Studies: Perspectives from the Region. Singapore: ISEAS
Guo, Sujian (ed.) (2013) Political Science and Chinese Political Studies: The State of the Field. Springer
Lin, Justin Yifu (2005) Benti & Changwu. Dialogues on Methodology in Economics. Cengage Learning
Kuhonta, Erik Martinez, Dan Slater and Tuong Vu (eds.) (2008) Southeast Asia in Political Science. Theory, Region and Qualitative Analysis. Stanford University Press
Wang, Catherine L, David J. Ketchen and Jr. Donald D. Bergh (eds.) (2012) West Meets East: Building Theoretical Bridges (Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, vol. 8). Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Wang, Georgette (ed.) (2010) De-Westernizing Communication Research : Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks. Routledge
Wesley-Smith, Terence and Jon Goss (eds.) (2010) Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning across Asia and the Pacific. University of Hawai’i Press (Available in ebrary)
Øyen, Else (ed.) (1990) Comparative Methodology: Theory and Practice in International Social Research. Sage Studies in International Sociology. London: Sage

Collier, David and James E. Mahon Jr. (1993) ”Conceptual Stretching Revisited: Adapting Categories in Comparative Analysis,” American Political Science Review vol.87, no. 4, pp. 845-855
Graham, Loren and Jean-Michel Kantor (2007) ”Soft” Area Studies versus “Hard” Social Science: A False Opposition,” Slavic Review vol. 66, no.1, pp. 1-19
Heryanto, Ariel (2000) ”Asians Studying Other Asians in Asia: What Difference Does It Make?,” Southeast Asian Studies Bulletin, Oct-Nov (2/00)
Huang, Shuping (2001) ”Sinicizing Anthropology. Theory, Practice, and Human Talent,” Chinese Sociology & Anthropology, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 7-19
Levy, Jack S. (2007) ”Qualitative Methods and Cross-Method Dialogue in Political Science,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 196-214
Schwartz, Benjamin I. (1980) ”Area Studies as a Critical Discipline,” Journal of Asian Studies vol. 40, no.1, pp. 15-25
Roy, Ananya (2009) ”The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory,” Regional Studies, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 819-830