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.
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Preface
Introduction: Knowledges That Travel in Southeast Asian Area Studies / Carlo Bonura and Laurie J. Sears
Part One | Southeast Asian Subjects
1. Postcolonial Identities, Feminist Criticism, and Southeast Asian Studies / Laurie J. Sears
2. Can There Be Southeast Asians in Southeast Asian Studies? / Ariel Heryanto
3. Recognizing Scholarly Subjects: Collaboration, Area Studies, and the Politics of Nature / Celia Lowe
Part Two | Collaborations, Collections, Disciplines
4. Southeast Asian Studies in the United States and Southeast Asia: Missing Links / George Dutton
5. Disciplining Knowledge: Representing Resources for Southeast Asian Studies in the Libraries of the U.S. Academy / Judith A. N. Henchy
6. Political Science, the Anxiety of Interdisciplinary Engagement, and Southeast Asian Studies / Carlo Bonura
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Sobre el autor
Laurie J. Sears is the Walker Family Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington. She is the author of several books, including Situated Testimonies: Dread and Enchantment in an Indonesian Literary Archive(U. of Hawai’i Press, 2013) and Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales (Duke University Press, 1996).
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