Knowing Southeast Asian subjects / edited by Laurie J. Sears.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sears, Laurie J. (Laurie Jo)

Series:

Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies.

Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics--Study and teaching (Higher).

National characteristics.

Southeast Asia--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--Study and teaching (Higher).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Singapore : In association with NUS Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects ask how the rising preponderance of scholarship from Southeast Asia is de-centering Southeast Asian area studies in the United States. The contributions address recent transformations within the field and new directions for research, pedagogy, and institutional cooperation.Contributions from the perspectives of history, anthropology, cultural studies, political theory, and libraries pose questions ranging from how a concern with postcolonial and feminist questions of identity might reorient the field to how anthropological work on civil society and Islam in Southeast Asia provides an opportunity for comparative political theorists to develop more sophisticated analytic approaches. A vision common to all the contributors is the potential of area studies to produce knowledge outside a global academic framework that presumes the privilege and even hegemony of Euro-American academic trends and scholars.

Contents:

Introduction : knowledges that travel in Southeast Asian area studies / Carlo Bonura and Laurie J. Sears

Southeast Asian subjects

Postcolonial identities, feminist criticism, and Southeast Asian studies / Laurie J. Sears

Can there be Southeast Asians in Southeast Asian studies? / Ariel Heryanto

Recognizing scholarly subjects : collaboration, area studies, and the politics of nature / Celia Lowe

Collaborations, collections, disciplines

Southeast Asian studies in the United States and Southeast Asia : missing links / George Dutton

Disciplining knowledge : representing resources for Southeast Asian studies in the libraries of the U.S. academy / Judith A. N. Henchy

Political science, the anxiety of interdisciplinary engagement, and Southeast Asian studies / Carlo Bonura.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-268) and index.

ISBN:

9780295804255

0295804254

OCLC:

760886423