LOCAL RESPONSES TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

'Local Responses to Global Challenges in Southeast Asia — A Transregional Studies Reader' is a collection of multidisciplinary essays, predominantly derived from papers presented at EuroSEAS 2019, the leading academic conference on Southeast Asian Studies, hosted by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It brings together a variety of scholars from Southeast Asia, Europe and North America, allowing for multiple flows and directionalities of knowledge productions and exchanges, be it between the Global South and North as well as within the Global South. The reader presents empirically-oriented, theoretically grounded analyses of local responses to global challenges such as knowledge-productions; notions and practices of building diverse communities; neo-populisms and contentious politics; resources and sustainability; urbanization; labor, livelihoods and mobilities. Each section starts with an introduction reviewing the state of the art. Authors will take cue from a transregional perspective understood as a distinct and alternative perspective on multi-lingual and transcultural spaces of contact, exchange and transfer. This includes a contextualization of phenomena in terms of diverse (cross) linkages and entanglements, including motilities on different scales, i.e. ranging from the local, regional to national and/or global levels. Container-based notions of place and space are addressed in a critical manner, where space and area are understood as notions beyond established systems of ordering and meta-geographies. A key goal is to allow for a consistent conceptual advancement of New Area Studies, which are critical, decentred, decolonial, diversified, and multi-disciplinary in nature.

Contents:

• Preface
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Introduction: Local Responses to Global Challenges (Claudia Derichs, Sumrin Kalia, Lina Knorr, and Andrea Fleschenberg)
• Critical Takes on Knowledge Production(s) — Introduction: Section 1 (Boike Rehbein):
  • They Dare to Speak: Uncovering Women's Hidden Agency (Titiek Kartika Hendrastiti and Siti Kusujiarti)
  • Félix Resurrección Hidalgo's The Church against the State: Conspiracy, Controversy, and Censorship in Colonial and Contemporary Philippines (Pearlie Rose S Baluyut)
  • The Elephant in the Room: China's Soft Power Outreach in Academia, Its Impact on Asian Studies, and What This Means for Southeast Asia Scholars (Robert Shepherd)
  • Academic Freedom in Southeast Asia (Sriprapha Petcharamesree)
• Building and Re-Imagining Communities — Introduction: Section 2 (Ferdiansyah Thajib):
  • Indonesian Islamic Academia as a Transregional Political Actor: Understanding Global Agency Through Local History (Amanda tho Seeth)
  • A Space in a Foreign Land: The Sociabilities of Emplacement of Vietnamese Labour Migrants in Taiwan (Jessica Steinman)
  • Nationalism and Two Sexual Moral Panics in Indonesia (Saskia E Wieringa)
• Of Power, Authority and (Neo)Populisms — Introduction: Section 3 (Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann):
  • Southeast Asian Artists and Academics Unsettling Borders, Power, and Authority Through Collaborative Works (Rosa Cordillera A Castillo, Kay Abaño, Bùi Kim Ðĩnh, Henry Tan, Ferdiansyah Thajib, and Clod Marlan Krister Yambao)
  • The strongmen Strike Back? Anti-Geopolitics and Southeast Asia's Authoritarian (Re)turns (Sabina Lawreniuk)
  • A Matrilineal Society's Influence on Women's Political Access(ibility) — The Minangkabau Women Missing in Indonesian Politics (Lina Knorr)
  • Securitisation as Response to Disinformation: The Cases of Singapore and Malaysia (Ric Neo)
  • Dilemmas of Labour and Populism in Indonesia (Olle Törnquist)
• Negotiating Resources & Sustainability — Introduction: Section 4 (Sumrin Kalia):
  • Living Off the Resource Curse in Myanmar (KhinZaw Win)
  • Oil Palm Plantation Expansion and Frontier-Making in Papua, Indonesia (Nanang Indra Kurniawan, Indah Surya Wardhani, and Muhammad Djindan)
• On the Move — Labour, Livelihood, Mobilities — Introduction: Section 5 (Gunnar Stange):
  • Indonesian Women Migrant Workers: Standing in the Midst of Femininity and Masculinity (Elisabeth Dewi)
  • New Brooms and Giant Napkins: Street Protests and the Campaign for an Indonesian Domestic Workers' Law (Mary Austin)
  • Becoming Professionals: Virtual Mobility, Gender, and Religious Knowledge (Claudia Derichs, Faiza Muhammad-Din, and Manja Stephan-Emmrich)
• Index

Readership: Academics (area studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Social Sciences, Humanities); Graduate and undergraduate students interested in Southeast Asian Studies and Social Sciences; practitioners such as those in foundations/endownments working in the region, (I)NGOs, think tanks, development cooperations.

Key Features:

• Innovative critical approaches to knowledge productions from a broad range of academic scholars and scholar-activists from the Global South as well as the Global North
• Distinct transregional perspectives, employing various scales with a variety of disciplinary, theoretical and methodological approaches for empirical analyses
• Broad readership: academia / researchers / think tanks / students / activists / interested general public