Revisiting Ideas of Power in Southeast Asia

Bibliographic Data

ID2145167
AuthorsHjorleifur R Jonsson (0000-0002-8624-0608, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume32
Issue1
Pages1-19
Publication date2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Forum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00664677.2022.2052016
OpenAlexW4224228238
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited54

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