I have written and talked in the past about how I think that the generation that developed the field of Southeast Asian history in the English-speaking world in the 1960s…
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 Noor and published in the…
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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 very well published, and has…
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 “truth” is the idea that…
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 idea that China had “responded”…