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3 May '07
Syed Farid Alatas is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore where he has been since 1992. A Malaysian national, he had his schooling in Singapore and obtained his PhD in Sociology from the Johns Hopkins University in 1991. He lectured at the University of Malaya in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies prior to his appointment at Singapore.
His books include Democracy and Authoritarianism: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State in Indonesia and Malaysia (Macmillan, 1997; Alternative Discourses in Asian Social Science: Responses to Eurocentrism (Sage, 2006); as well as the edited volumes, Reflections on Alternative Discourses from Southeast Asia, Proceedings of the ISA (International Sociological Association) (2001); (with Lim Teck Ghee) Asian Inter-Faith Dialogue, (World Bank, 2003); and Covering Islam: Challenges and Opportunities for Media in the Global Village, (Centre for Research on Islamic and Malay Affairs, 2005). His published articles include (with Vineeta Sinha) “Teaching Classical Sociological Theory in Singapore: The Context of Eurocentrism, Teaching Sociology 29(3), 2001: 316-331; and “Academic Dependency and the Global Division of Labour in the Social Sciences”, Current Sociology 51(6), 2003: 599-613. He is currently working on a book in the area of Muslim revival and another project on the Ba’alawi sufi order.
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