Coercing Mobility: Territory and Displacement in the Politics of Southeast Asian Muslim Movements

Itinerario ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-344
Author(s):  
Joshua Gedacht ◽  
Amrita Malhi
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Asian History

AbstractThis introductory article explores the recent turn in Asian history towards work that foregrounds mobility, circulation, and cosmopolitan connections, decentring colonial territoriality and postcolonial geo-bodies as the primary units of historical analysis. In it, and to frame our own special issue on Muslim movements in Southeast Asia, we point out that some of this mobility was coerced via projects of state territorialisation that actively displaced select, targeted Muslim actors whose presence in the polity was deemed problematic by states seeking to consolidate their power. Echoes of this displacement can be traced in the politics of the Muslim movements that these actors created, as we argue in this article and throughout the special issue.

Networks and Synchronisms in Southeast Asian History

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denys Lombard
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Main Difficulty ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asian History

It is truly not easy to write a “well integrated” history of Southeast Asia. If today, anybody feels such a necessity, the procedure is far from obvious, and thus the utility of using a special issue such as the present one to take stock of the situation is quite evident. The main difficulty is in fact to transcend the heaviness of regional, colonial and then nationalistic histories which have strongly partitioned off the historical space.

Ships, Shipwrecks, and Archaeological Recoveries as Sources of Southeast Asian History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Heng
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Exchanges ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Shipping Networks ◽  
Knowledge Usage ◽  
The Last Two Millennia

Ships form a critical component of the study of Southeast Asia’s interaction both within itself as well as with the major centers of Asia and the West. Shipwreck data, accrued from archaeologically excavated shipwreck sites, provide information on the evolving maritime traditions that traversed Southeast Asian waters over the last two millennia, including shipbuilding and navigational technologies and knowledge, usage of construction materials and techniques, types of commodities carried by the shipping networks, shipping passages developed through Southeast Asia, and the key ports of call that vessels would arrive at as part of the network of economic and social exchanges that came to characterize maritime interactions.

Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Period; Twenty-Five Years On

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Y. Andaya ◽  
Barbara Watson Andaya
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Convenient Tool ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Asian History

The identity of “Southeast Asia” has been debated since the 1950s, when the region began to develop as an area of academic viability around which courses could be constructed, programmes built, and research published. Much less controversy has accompanied the growing use of “early modern”, a term which seems set to displace “precolonial” in periodizing Southeast Asian history. The phrase, of course, comes from scholarship on Europe, where it was popularized as a result of efforts to find shared “periods” that would facilitate the writing of a general history. It would be surprising if questions as to the applicability of “early modern” in Southeast Asia do not spark off some debate, especially in light of subaltern writings that reject the notion of modernity as a universal. For such historians the very invocation of the word implicitly sets a “modern Europe” against a “yet to be modernized non-Europe”. But whatever decision is made regarding terminology, scholarship on Southeast Asia is increasingly viewing a period that stretches from about the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century as rather different from those traditionally described as “classical” and “colonial/modern”. The term “early modern” itself is at present a convenient tool for historical reference, and only time will tell whether it will find general acceptance.

Beyond Nationalism and Revolution in Southeast Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
John T. Sidel
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
State Power ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Asian History ◽  
New Nation

This chapter offers a composite picture of the Philippine, Indonesian, and Việtnamese revolutions that goes beyond both established understandings of these revolutions as nationalist in nature and the various strands of the growing body of literature on the various cosmopolitan connections cited above. The chapter intends to provide a new descriptive overview of the three major revolutions in Southeast Asian history. In so doing, the chapter provides a critical counterpoint to those understandings and accounts of these revolutions that, consciously or unconsciously, follow official nationalist narratives in which the rise of national consciousness produces nationalists who make national revolutions. It works to undermine efforts to appropriate these revolutions — and the making of these three new nation-states — for the nationalist elites who came to occupy state power in the aftermaths of these revolutions and throughout the postindependence era. By providing alternative narratives, the chapter suggests ways these revolutions might be understood not only in terms of their victories and their victors but in light of their betrayals and their victims, as the diverse and diverging emancipatory energies that helped to fuel revolutionary mobilization were in various ways absorbed, appropriated, and eviscerated by postrevolutionary (nation-)states.

Local Integration and Eurasian Analogies: Structuring Southeast Asian History, c. 1350—c. 1830

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Lieberman
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Systematic Overview ◽  
Local Integration ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Classical States

The historiography of precolonial Southeast Asia remains remarkably fragmented and inaccessible, even by the standards of that variegated region. We have a limited number of country monographs. But no systematic overview of Southeast Asian political or economic history has been attempted for all, or even part, of the period between the waning of the classical states in the fourteenth century and the onset of high colonialism in the early nineteenth. Scholarly surveys, like the magisterial and still standardmagnum opusof D. G. E. Hall, make discretion the better part of valor by providing separate country chapters without integrative theme or comment.

Presidential Address: Five Voices From Southeast Asia's Past

1994 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 1076-1091 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Asian History

In 1962 the association for asian studies met, as this year, in Boston, at its fourteenth annual meeting, when the Association was addressed by its President that year, Lauriston Sharp. In his search for “some of the continuities and discontinuities of human experience in Southeast Asia,” Sharp proposed that “we should first work back from the present and up the little streams, the short runs of Southeast Asian history and prehistory” (Sharp 1962:5). Following Sharp's metaphor of time as the river, we can find that the rocks and rivulets, the surges and pools and mighty dams of a very minor river in the northern part of what is now called Thailand have much to tell us of the rich and complex past of Southeast Asia. We are concerned here with a small and, most would argue, inconsequential river; but any river at its spate is capable of raising and pushing along the largest boulders. I would hope that this particular river might serve to wash clean and highlight anew the ground that Sharp so eloquently covered so many years ago.

The Dorothy and Horace Quaritch Wales Bequest — A Note

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-92
Author(s):  
John Guy
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
Southeast Asian Studies ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Queens College ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
State Functions ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society

The Royal Asiatic Society has recently been a beneficiary from the estate of Mrs Dorothy Wales, widow of H. G. Quaritch Wales, the erudite scholar of early Southeast Asian history who died in 1981. The occasion of this bequest, the contents of which are discussed in the Librarian's report herein (pp. 169–70), prompts this note on the contribution of Quaritch Wales to Southeast Asian studies.Quaritch Wales was born in 1900 and educated at Charterhouse and Queens' College, Cambridge. He immediately embarked on a career in Southeast Asia, from which he was never to be deflected. At the age of 23 he entered the service of the Siamese Government where he served from 1924 to 1928 as an adviser to the courts of King Rama VI and King Rama VII. The first-hand knowledge gained from this experience formed the basis of his pioneering study Siamese State Ceremonies (1931), which remains a work of unrivalled insight into the Brahmanical rituals and Buddhist accretions of Thai kingship. He followed this with another work based on his experiences of Thai court and state functions, Ancient Siamese Government and Administration (1934).

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