Revisiting Ideas of Power in Southeast Asia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2145167
AutoresHjorleifur R Jonsson (0000-0002-8624-0608, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen32
Número1
Páginas1-19
Fecha de publicación2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00664677.2022.2052016
OpenAlexW4224228238
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas54

The five essays in this collection examine ideas of power in Southeast Asia and reflect on foundational studies by Lucien Hanks and Benedict Anderson on Thailand and Indonesia. The essays by Hanks and Anderson crossed anthropology and area studies. The cases explore the relevance of their work in Southeast Asia and comparatively, in relation to academic consensus and debate, social entanglements, political divergence, negotiation, pluralism, and reflexivity. The essays suggest that ‘the state’ is a problematic notion, and that the common conflation of society and the state hides a range of tensions between the rival principles of hierarchy and community. We examine power in relation to socialism, hierarchy, indigeneity, Buddhism, marginalisation, and nonstate identities, through fieldwork encounters as much as through historical and regional contrasts and comparisons on the ethnic frontiers of the modern nations of Indonesia, Laos, and Thailand

Buddhism · Divergence (linguistics) · Epistemology · Ethnology · Hierarchy · Negotiation · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Reflexivity · Relation (database) · Social science · Sociology · Southeast asia · Southeast Asian studies · State (computer science) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies