scholarly journals FUKUOKA Madoka and FUKUOKA Shota (eds.), Popular Culture in Southeast Asia: Identity, Nation-state and Globalization, Kokubunji: Stylenote, 2018.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (48) ◽  
pp. 93-97
Author(s):  
Teruo SEKIMOTO
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Nation State

scholarly journals Friction within harmony: Everyday dynamics and the negotiation of diversity in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin de Jong ◽  
Argo Twikromo
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Special Region

Most studies on diversity in Southeast Asia focus on the nation-state, with much less attention given to everyday encounters and the negotiation of diversity in local contexts. This article investigates the discourses and practices of various actors in the historically tolerant, generally peaceful, and diverse city and special region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This study examines this ethnic, religious and cultural diversity and illustrates the negotiations among various interest groups and actors that strive to maintain this balance, or sometimes to strategically disrupt it. As such, the findings offer a different way to understand and interrogate the challenges confronting present-day diversity both on a local level in Yogyakarta, and also for Indonesia and Southeast Asia at large.

The Possibilities for Diplomacy in Southeast Asia

1967 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. McAlister
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
State System ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Fragmentation ◽  
Battle Scenes ◽  
Mainland Southeast Asia

At Angkor, where the remains of an antique kingdom's abandoned capital are found deep in the Cambodian jungle, the exquisite bas-reliefs tell a story more compelling than written history. Battle scenes with a great cavalry of war elephants meld into episodes of river combat between handsomely carved fleets of oar-powered boats in an unending stone panorama of warfare as it was fought centuries ago in Southeast Asia. For one who has seen these carved panels it is not difficult to realize that when the Europeans arrived in mainland Southeast Asia in the early seventeenth century they found warfare endemic there. This conflict was not less bloody nor less protracted than that which Europe had already experienced or was about to endure in the Thirty Years' War. But this violent interaction in Asia did not seem to hold the prospect for the development of a nation-state system such as was emerging from European warfare. Rather than moving toward centralized states and configurations of alliances, the peoples of Southeast Asia in the seventeenth century appeared to be entering a phase, repetitious in their history, in which political fragmentation and spasmodic conflict were hallmarks.

scholarly journals Vietnamese Revolutionaries and the Early Spread of Communism to Peninsular Southeast Asia: Towards a Regional Perspective

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Christopher E. Goscha
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Modern Nation State ◽  
Mainland Southeast Asia ◽  
Regional Perspective

This paper adopts a regional and geographical approach to show how the early spread of communism to mainland South-east Asia owes much to overseas Chinese and overland Vietnamese patterns of immigration. This wider approach seeks to get beyond the frontiers of nationalist histories and the formation of the 'modern' nation-state (whether colonial or national) in order to think in more material terms about how communism and not entirely unlike Catholicism or any other religion first entered mainland Southeast Asia on the ground, by which channels, by which groups of people and at which times. The idea is to begin mapping out the introduction and spread of communism in peninsular Southeast Asia in both time and space. This, in turn, provides us with a methodologically and historically sounder basis for thinking about the 'why' of this Sino-Vietnamese revolutionary graft and the failure of this brand of conmmunism to take hold in certain places and among certain peoples outside of China and Vietnam.

scholarly journals Exploring Intersection of Migration and Urban Space in Jakarta

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Kilim Park
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Conceptual Paper

<p>Stories of migration tend to mark monumental moments in people's lives. In Indonesia, the experiences of labour migrants, in particular, female overseas domestic workers (usually referred to as <em>TKW: Tenega Kerja Wanita</em>), continue to make the news and has made its way into the Indonesian popular culture as well. In this conceptual paper, I offer a brief observation on the discussion of labour migration in Indonesia, and propose new ways to explore migration and urban space. In particular, with a focus on intersectionality of the two with respect to migrant women returnee's experience, I propose an approach that considers the details in their everyday lives and reflections upon them intertwined with formal and informal aspects of urban citizenship. Finally, by using Jakarta as a case study of urban space where migrant returnees live in, and influence and change, I suggest a research direction that centralizes migrant women as a storyteller and keyplayer in our understanding of urban, social, and cultural change in Indonesia and broadly, Southeast Asia.<em> </em></p>

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