Southeast Asian Studies in Asia: Recent Trend
Southeast Asian Studies in Asia: Recent Trend
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亚洲的东南亚研究:最新趋势
DOI:
10.11479/asianstudies.67.1_18
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发表时间:
2021
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FEENER R. Michael
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作者:
MIENO Fumiharu;BI Shihong;TREERAT Nualnoi;KWARTANADA Didi;FEENER R. Michael
The fourth Kashiyama-seminar1) was held as an international symposium at the annual conference of Japan Association for Asian Studies (June 2019, Keio University) on the theme of “Southeast Asian Studies in Asia: New Perspectives on Inter-Asia Relations”. Discussions focused on recent research trends of Southeast Asian Studies in the academic community in Asia. Here we present a brief overview of these discussions with presentations by four invited guests from aboard, and two discussants from JAAS. Southeast Asian Studies have become remarkably globalized, through a series of transformations including a significant geographic shift of major research centers from the West to Asia itself. The coverage of the studies to include within each Southeast Asian country is also expanding beyond single-country case studies to include wider regional perceptives, comparative studies, and international collaborations. Southeast Asian Studies are also an increasingly active field in a number of East Asian countries including China, Taiwan and Korea, as well as here in Japan. As result, a wider and deeper research network across Asia is emerging. These significant developments in the field reflect the remarkable improvement of research environments at many universities in Asia over recent years and a deepening interdependence in the region, and in several countries.Current work on Southeast Asian Studies in Asia covers a diverse range of issues. Political science work tends to focus on traditional topics such as democratization or domestic political integration, while research concerns in the field of economics generally involves cross-regional and globally comparative topics such as sub-regional development. Work on Islamic Studies and Ethnic Studies of Chinese in Southeast Asia have been rapidly emerging in the humanities and social sciences. Ethnic Chinese studies can be seen to coincide with Southeast Asia’s social change toward overcoming conventional social taboos. Contemporary Southeast Asian studies in Asia are diverse; those in China seems driven by Belt and Load Initiative’s momentum, while those of Taiwan seems largely related to their concern on national security issues or reconsideration of national identification.