Primary Institutional Dynamics and the Emergence of Regional Governance in Southeast Asia: Constructing Post-Colonial International Societies

2018 ◽  
pp. 321-355
Author(s):  
Kilian Spandler
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Post Colonial

Conceptions of Community in Colonial Southeast Asia

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 337-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Stockwell
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Asian Values ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Common Experience ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Shared Commitment

It is a commonplace that European rule contributed both to the consolidation of the nation-states of Southeast Asia and to the aggravation of disputes within them. Since their independence, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam have all faced the upheavals of secessionism or irredentism or communalism. Governments have responded to threats of fragmentation by appeals to national ideologies like Sukarno's pancasila (five principles) or Ne Win's ‘Burmese way to socialism’. In attempting to realise unity in diversity, they have paraded a common experience of the struggle for independence from colonial rule as well as a shared commitment to post-colonial modernisation. They have also ruthlessly repressed internal opposition or blamed their problems upon the foreign forces of neocolonialism, world communism, western materialism, and other threats to Asian values. Yet, because its effects were uneven and inconsistent while the reactions to it were varied and frequently equivocal, the part played by colonialism in shaping the affiliations and identities of Southeast Asian peoples was by no means clear-cut.

A Comparative Measure of Decentralization for Southeast Asia

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Shair-Rosenfield ◽  
Gary Marks ◽  
Liesbet Hooghe
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Flexible Tool ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Regional Authority ◽  
Subnational Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Comparative Measure

In this article we set out a fine-grained measure of the formal authority of intermediate subnational government for Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand that is designed to be a flexible tool in the hands of researchers and policymakers. It improves on prior measures by providing annual estimates across ten dimensions of regional authority; it disaggregates to the level of the individual region; and it examines individual regional tiers, asymmetric regions, and regions with special arrangements. We use the measure and its elements to summarize six decades of regional governance in Southeast Asia and conclude by noting how the Regional Authority index could further the dialogue between theory and empirics in the study of decentralization and democratization.

scholarly journals Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of Southeast Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-371
Author(s):  
Alexander Supartono ◽  
Alexandra Moschovi
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Picture Plane ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Digital Material ◽  
Colonial Archive ◽  
Digital Manipulation ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

This article seeks to explore the impact of digital technologies upon the material, conceptual and ideological premises of the colonial archive in the digital era. This analysis is pursued though a discussion of creative work produced during an international, multidisciplinary artist workshop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, that used digital material from colonial photographic archives in the Netherlands to critically investigate the ways national, transnational and personal (hi)stories in the former colonies in Southeast Asia have been informed and shaped by their colonial past. The analysis focuses on how the artists’ use of digital media contests and reconfigures the use, truth value and power of the colonial archive as an entity and institution. Case studies include: Thai photographer Dow Wasiksiri, who questions the archive's mnemonic function by substituting early twentieth-century handcrafted association techniques with digital manipulation; Malaysian artist Yee I-Lann, who compresses onto the same picture plane different historical moments and colonial narratives; and Indonesian photographer Agan Harahap, who recomposes archival photographs into unlikely juxtapositions disseminated through social media. By repurposing colonial archival material and circulating their work online such a re-imag(in)ing of Southeast Asia not only challenges the notions of originality, authenticity, ownership and control associated with such archives, but also reclaims colonial-era (hi)stories, making them part of a democratic, expanding, postcolonial archive.

scholarly journals Singapore’s Use of Education as a Soft Power Tool in Arctic Cooperation

Asian Survey ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 920-941
Author(s):  
Danita Catherine Burke ◽  
André Saramago
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
The Arctic

Singapore is expert at using education as a means of projecting soft power internationally. For years, it has offered free and subsidized education opportunities in Southeast Asia, and now, with its interests in the Arctic, it is offering education opportunities to indigenous peoples as a way to involve itself in regional governance.

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