Locating southeast Asia : geographies of knowledge and politics of space / edited by H. G. C. Schulte Nordholt & R. Raben.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raben, R., editor.

Schulte Nordholt, H. G. C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

74.21 geography of Asia.

Human geography.

sociale geografie.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : KITLV Press, 2020.

Summary:

Southeast Asia' calls to mind a wide range of images: tropical forests and mountains, islands and seas, and a multitude of languages, cultures and religions. The area has never formed a unified political realm nor has it ever developed a cultural or civilisational unity. Many academics have defined 'Southeast Asia' over the years as what is left after subtracting Australia, the South Pacific islands and China and India. Others have pointed at diversity—the variety and fluidity of the cultures, wide ranging forms of economic activity, and openness to external influences—as the defining feature of the region. But with area studies out of fashion, is 'Southeast Asia' even relevant any longer? This volume considers 'Southeast Asia' drawn from a number of regional and disciplinary perspectives. The authors look at the region from the standpoint of Thailand and the Philippines, Singapore and Hong Kong, Japan and the Asian mainland, the South China Sea and the seacoasts of the region. They also discuss the significance of borders, monetary networks, transnational flows of people, goods and information, and knowledge in shaping Southeast Asia both for its residents, for the scholars who study it and for the wider world.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Locating Southeast Asia / Paul H. Kratoska , Remco Raben , and Henk Schulte Nordholt

Contingent Devices / Heather Sutherland

Two Perspectives of Southeast Asian Studies: Singapore and China / Wang Gungwu

Southeast Asia as a Regional Concept in Modem Japan / Shimizu Hajime

Trying to Locate Southeast Asia from Its Navel: Where is Southeast Asian Studies in Thailand? / Thongchai Winichakul

Southeast Asia and Identity Studies in the Philippines / Ma. Serena I. Diokno

Tropical Spaces, Frozen Frontiers: The Evolution of Border-Enforcement in Nineteenth-Century Insular Southeast Asia / Eric Tagliacozzo

Southeast Asia in the Asian Setting: Shifting Geographies of Currencies and Networks / Willem Wolters

Locating the South China Sea / Stein Tønnesson

Southeast Asia through an Inverted Telescope: Maritime Perspectives on a Borderless Region / Cynthia Chou

Southeast Asia as an Open System: Geo-politics and Economic Geography / Howard Dick

Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance: Jumping Scale in Southeast Asia / Willem van Schendel

Afterword: In Praise of the Coelacanth's Cousin / Ruth T. McVey

Index / Paul H. Kratoska , Remco Raben , and Henk Schulte Nordholt.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-43488-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004434882 DOI