In Defence of Southeast Asia
A Case for Methodological Regionalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13014641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Thompson (0000-0001-7144-9735, National University of Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 281-302 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TRaNS Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2051-364X • E-ISSN: 2051-3658 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/trn.2013.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2012740871 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 37 |
Open nearly any general text on Southeast Asia and you will find that some space is taken up in the introduction assessing the reality and validity of the regional framework on which that text rests. Likewise, with the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), many scholars question whether or not the regional entity amounts to anything of any substance. In this article, I mount a defence of Southeast Asia as a regional framework in scholarship and draw attention to ASEAN as an evolving regional entity. While the concept of Southeast Asia among researchers and the politics of ASEAN are distinct issues, I treat them together in this article to highlight their interrelationship and parallels. My primary objective is to outline the displaced politics – of both academic and realpolitik varieties – embedded in deconstructive and dismissive critiques of both Southeast Asia and ASEAN. Critiques of both are not without value, as they sharpen our attention to processes through which supra-national regionalism is produced. Nevertheless, I argue that regionalism remains a valuable method in both politics and scholarship, in no small part as a counterweight to the hegemony of methodological nationalism in contemporary thought and research
Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Ethnology · Hegemony · Parallels · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realpolitik · Regionalism (politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Southeast asia · Southeast Asian studies · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |