Local Responses To Global Challenges In Southeast Asia: A Transregional Studies Reader

Local Responses to Global Challenges in Southeast Asia — A Transregional Studies Reader is a collection of multidisciplinary essays that explores local responses to global challenges from a transregional perspective. It brings together scholars from Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America, highlighting the flows and directionalities of knowledge productions and exchanges between the Global South and North and within the Global South. The reader offers empirically-oriented, theoretically grounded analyses of topics such as knowledge production, diverse communities, neo-populism, resources and sustainability, urbanization, labor, livelihoods, and mobilities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 452 pages
Publication date: 12 November 2022
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Local Responses to Global Challenges in Southeast Asia — A Transregional Studies Reader is a comprehensive compilation of multidisciplinary essays, primarily sourced from presentations at EuroSEAS 2019, the preeminent academic conference on Southeast Asian Studies. Hosted by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, this esteemed gathering brings together scholars from diverse regions, including Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America, fostering multifaceted flows and directionalities of knowledge production and exchange. Whether bridging the Global South and North or within the Global South itself, this reader showcases empirically-oriented, theoretically grounded analyses of local responses to global challenges such as knowledge production, notions and practices of building diverse communities, neo-populisms and contentious politics, resources and sustainability, urbanization, labor, livelihoods, and mobilities.

Each section begins with an introduction that provides a review of the current state of knowledge in the field. The authors draw inspiration from a transregional perspective, which is characterized as a distinct and alternative lens on multi-lingual and transcultural spaces of contact, exchange, and transfer. This perspective encompasses a contextualization of phenomena in terms of diverse (cross) linkages and entanglements, spanning various scales, including local, regional, national, and/or global levels.

A critical approach is taken to container-based notions of place and space, challenging established systems of ordering and meta-geographies. The goal is to facilitate a consistent conceptual advancement of New Area Studies, which are characterized by their critical, decentred, decolonial, diversified, and multi-disciplinary nature.

By compiling these essays, Local Responses to Global Challenges in Southeast Asia — A Transregional Studies Reader offers a valuable resource for scholars, researchers, and students interested in understanding the complex dynamics of local responses to global challenges in Southeast Asia. It sheds light on the diverse perspectives and experiences of communities across the region, highlighting the importance of transregional collaborations and interdisciplinary approaches in addressing these pressing issues.

ISBN-13: 9789811256455