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
• प्रकाशन का वर्ष : 2011
• भाषा: English
• भौतिक वर्णन: 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 know...

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