Southeast Asian Studies
On Being Southeast Asian and the Bankruptcy of Liberal Persuasion
The other day an article appeared in my Facebook feed called “Being South-East Asian.” It was written by historian, political scientist and public intellectual Farish
LMK Vlog #09: Reading The End of Concern
I’ve been reading a new, and very interesting, book called The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies (Duke 2017) by Fabio Lanza.
Baby Boomer Politics and Southeast Asian History/Studies
When people write about the history of Southeast Asian Studies (or the history of scholarship on Southeast Asian history), they often state that there were
Area Studies is the New Philology
Knowledge production continuously transforms alongside changes in society and technology. At times, however, societal and technological changes are so profound that forms of knowledge that
The Digital Age World Does Not Need Southeast Asian Studies – And That’s the Problem
Today I stumbled across an article by historian Thongchai Winichakul on “Southeast Asian Studies in the Age of STEM Education and Hyper-Utilitarianism.” Being a fan
Southeast Asian Studies, Orientalism, Decolonization, Baby Boomer Politics & Sympathetic Essentialism
This video continues the conversation started in the previous post about Southeast Asian Studies. We start by talking about the article “Can There Be Southeast
ASEAN Studies and Southeast Asian Studies – Morning Meditations
I’ve been sick recently, but I have a lot of ideas in my head and so I decided to record a video about them. I’ve
Imagined Communities and an Imagined Southeast Asian Communitas
There are different types of knowledge that have been (and continue to be) produced about Southeast Asia, from area studies knowledge produced in places like
Southeast Asian Studies, ASEAN and Western Scholarship
A few days ago I had the pleasure of attending two panels on “Emerging and Continuing Trends in Southeast Asian Studies” at The 10th International
The Superficiality of Scholarship on Premodern Southeast Asian History
I got really depressed this weekend listening to a “senior scholar” in the field of premodern Southeast Asian history give a talk. The speaker is
The “Truth” about the Mandala
Like any field, the field of Southeast Asian history maintains certain “truths” which the people in the field learn and teach others about. One such
O. W. Wolters and the “Reading” of Angkor Wat
Academic fields have paradigms or themes which serve to focus scholarship and define the field. For instance, in the middle of the twentieth century, the
