From Southeast Asian Studies to ASEAN Studies: What's in a Name Change?

  • Curaming, Rommel A. (History and International Studies Programme, Universiti Brunei Darussalam)
  • Received : 2018.04.17
  • Accepted : 2018.11.25
  • Published : 2018.12.31

Abstract

This paper is a preliminary attempt at making sense of the increasingly common use of the term ASEAN Studies as interchangeable with, or as replacement for the older and more established counterpart. It speculates on whether this development represents the beginning among local people of "owning" the region, as well as whether this forms part of the continuing effort to wrest the initiative or control of knowledge production in and about Southeast Asia.

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