This is a video summary of a weekly seminar that I am teaching (Fall 2017) on modern Southeast Asian History.
The readings from this week are listed below.
Park Seung Woo and Victor T. King, “Introduction: The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies and the Emergence of a Region,” in The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies; Korea and Beyond, edited by Park Seung Woo and Victor T. King (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013), 1-42.
Peter A. Jackson, “Space, Theory, and Hegemony: The Dual Crises of Asian Area Studies and Cultural Studies,” Sojourn Vol. 18., No. 1 (2003): 1-41.
_____, “Mapping Poststructuralism’s Borders: The Case for Postructuralist Area Studies,” Sojourn Vol. 18, No. 1 (2003): 42-88.
Rommel Curaming, “Towards a Poststructuralist Southeast Asian Studies?”, Sojourn Vol. 21, No. 1 (2006): 90-112.
Chris Burgess, “The Asian Studies ‘Crisis’: Putting Cultural Studies into Asian Studies and Asia into Cultural Studies,” International Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 1, No. 1 (2004): 121-136.
Juliet Clark, “Asian Studies in ‘Crisis’: Is Cultural Studies the Answer?”, International Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 3, No. 1 (2006): 95-110.
Goh Beng-Lan, “Disciplines and Area Studies in the Global Age: Southeast Asian Reflections,” in Decentring & Diversifying Southeast Asian Studies: Perspectives from the Region, ed., Goh Beng-Lan (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011), 1-59.
Ariel Heryanto, “The Intimacies of Cultural Studies and Area Studies: The Case of Southeast Asia,” International Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 16, No. 3 (2013): 303-316.
_____, “Popular Culture for a New Southeast Asian Studies?”, in The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies; Korea and Beyond, edited by Park Seung Woo and Victor T. King (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013), 226-262.
Eric C. Thompson, “In Defence of Southeast Asia: A Case for Methodological Regionalism, TRaNS: Trans –Regional and –National Studies of Southeast Asia Vol. 1, No. 2 (2013): 281-302.
