Syed Hussein Alatas and decolonising social theory: From the lazy native to the captive mind
Published online on March 25, 2026
Abstract
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This article reconstructs Syed Hussein Alatas’s critique of the “lazy native” myth and the concept of the captive mind as an integrated metatheoretical programme for building autonomous yet globally dialogical sociology from the Global South. Drawing on ...
This article reconstructs Syed Hussein Alatas’s critique of the “lazy native” myth and the concept of the captive mind as an integrated metatheoretical programme for building autonomous yet globally dialogical sociology from the Global South. Drawing on ...