Memory in the Mekong : regional identity, schools, and politics in Southeast Asia / edited by Will Brehm and Yuto Kitamura ; foreword by Thongchai Winichakul ; afterword by Shigeru Aoyagi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brehm, Will, editor.

Kitamura, Yuto, editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

International perspectives on education reform

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ASEAN.

Education--Southeast Asia.

Education.

History.

Southeast Asia.

Education--Southeast Asia--History.

Southeast Asia--Politics and government--1945-.

Politics and government.

Southeast Asia--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This edited collection explores the possibilities, perils, and politics of constructing a regional identity. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a multinational institution comprised of 10 member states, is dedicated to building a Southeast Asian regional identity that includes countries along Southeast Asia's Mekong River delta: Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar. After successfully establishing an economic community in 2015, where capital and people can freely move across national borders, ASEAN and its partners now aim to develop a sociocultural community that is fully functional in a wide range of sectors by 2025. As part of this vision, ASEAN wishes to construct a regional identity by uniting over 600 million people, which will be achieved partly through national school systems that teach shared histories. In this text, the contributors critically examine the many questions that arise in the face of this significant change: What does an ASEAN identity look like? Is it even possible or desirable to create a common identity across the diverse peoples of Southeast Asia? Given the divergent memories of history, how would a regional identity exist alongside national identity? Memory in the Mekong grapples with these questions by exploring issues of shared history, national identity, and schooling in a region that is frequently underexamined and underrepresented in Western scholarship."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I REGIONAL MEMORY

1. The UNESCO Shared Histories Curriculum: Paradoxes and Possibilities / Will Brehm

2. Regional Memory in Contemporary Cambodia: "Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity" / Will Brehm

pt. II NATIONAL MEMORY

3. Whose Kingdoms and Whose Settlement? Hegemonic National Memory Inside Thai Textbooks / Will Brehm

4. Vietnamese Citizenship in Transition: State Curricula Pre- and Post-Doi Moi / Bich-Hang Duong

pt. III PUBLIC MEMORY

5. Thinking With History in Pursuit of Truth in Myanmar / Anna Zongollowicz

6. Finding Unity in Diversity: Public Identity Patterns in Lao PDR / Yasushi Hirosato

7. Exploring Unity and Diversity in the Histories of Southeast Asia / Yuto Kitamura.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0807766364

9780807766361

0807766372

9780807766378

OCLC:

1275427332