Decentring and Diversifying Southeast Asian Studies : : Perspectives from the Region / / ed. by Goh Beng Lan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Abdullah, Taufik,; Abinales, Patricio N.,; Beng-Lan, Goh,; Budianta, Melani,; Gungwu, Wang,; Ileto, Reynaldo C.,; Koanantakool, Paritta Chalermpow,; Koon, Wong Soak,; Kusno, Abidin,; Thufail, Fadjar I.,; Winarto, Yunita T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Beng Lan, Goh,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)

This admirable book contains fascinating autobiographical accounts, by some of Southeast Asia's most eminent scholars, concerning their struggle to find their own voices in interpreting the region to which they belong. The book should be indispensable to anyone interested in thinking about knowledge production and its politics in a postcolonial world. In the views of these scholarly Southeast Asians, we are made to see, in very personal terms, the link between the global crisis in the social sciences and the need to find remedies for it that are neither Eurocentric nor parochially anti-Western.-Professor Alexander Woodside Professor of Chinese and Southeast Asian History University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. This book marks the shift of the centre of Southeast Asian Studies from the West to Southeast Asia. The insights provided by the authors are not simply explanations of colonial and postcolonial experiences of major Southeast Asian scholars. Rather, the book provides a unique set of intellectual genealogies that show that distinctions between humanities and social sciences are less important than the development of distinctive local and regional traditions and practices of scholarship. Goh Beng-Lan’s introduction frames the collection through her subtle deconstruction of international discourses on Southeast Asia. This introduction then allows the reader to view the different generations of Southeast Asian scholars in their social, political, and academic contexts. The end result is a combined view of the state of the art of Southeast Asian Studies, a view that is greater than the sum of its national parts. - Professor Adrian VickersChair of Southeast Asian StudiesUniversity of SydneyandDirector, Australian Centre for Asian Art and Archaeology The collection represents a coming of age of scholars from Southeast Asia. What we hear is not bluster that comes from a wounded pride or doctrinal certainties, but a quiet confidence that acknowledges the multiple currents in which their scholarship has been formed, and a willingness to engage the perspective of the “other”, both within and without. The reflexivity in this volume sets the stage for scholars from the region to develop perspectives and concepts to address the challenges of the new configuration of the Asia being ushered in by ASEAN. - Professor Prasenjit DuaraRaffles Professor of Humanities and Director of Research, Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1. Disciplines and Area Studies in the Global Age: Southeast Asian Reflections -- 2. Post-imperial Knowledge and Pre-Social Science in Southeast Asia -- 3. From the Education of a Historian to the Study of Minangkabau Local History -- 4. Scholarship, Society, and Politics in Three Worlds: Reflections of a Filipino Sojourner, 1965–95 -- 5. From Contemplating Wordsworth’s Daffodils to Listening to the Voices of the “Nation” -- 6. Crafting Anthropology in Many Sites of Fieldwork -- 7. A Non-Linear Intellectual Trajectory: My Diverse Engagements of the “Self ” and “Others” in Knowledge Production -- 8. Negotiating Boundaries and Alterity: The Making of a Humanities Scholar in Indonesia, a Personal Reflection -- 9. Between State and Revolution: Autobiographical Notes on Radical Scholarship during the Marcos Dictatorship -- 10. (Un)Learning Human Sciences: The Journey of a Malaysian from the “Look East” Generation -- 11. Architecture, Indonesia and Making Sense of the New Order: Notes and Reflections from My Student Years -- 12. Riding the Postmodern Chaos: A Reflection on Academic Subjectivity in Indonesia -- Index