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"Disrupted" Historical Trajectories and Indigenous Agency: Rethinking Imperial Impact in Southeast Asian History
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In this article, the authors explore the intellectual dilemma of reconciling Southeast Asia's imperial past and colonial legacy with the realities and validity of indigenous agency by critiquing notions of disrupted historical trajectories.Abstract:
��� This article explores the intellectual dilemma of reconciling Southeast Asia’s imperial past and colonial legacy with the realities and validity of indigenous agency. By critiquing notions of disrupted historical trajectories, this paper attempts to move Southeast Asian studies away from reified and teleologically confining narratives of imperial determinism while simultaneously negotiating the risks associated with overly discursive and relativistic approaches to colonial pasts. In conclusion, the paper offers a unique perspective on historical inquiry, which offers an alternative to the strictures of teleological history.read more
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:The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. By Ann Laura Stoler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xi+335. $54.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
In search of Southeast Asia : a modern history / David Yoel Silverstein
TL;DR: In this article, six contemporary historians trace the development of distinctive cultural, political, and social institutions in Southeast Asia, focusing on the emergence and evolution of cultural and political institutions in the region.
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Indonesian Trade and Society: Essays in Asian Social and Economic History
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Border regulars : an ethnographic enquiry into the becomings of the Thai-Lao border from the vantage point of small-scale trade
TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic enquiry into how the nation-state border between Thailand and Laos comes into being is presented, focusing on the interstices between the legal and illegal, the formal and informal, and the state and society in the context of small-scale cross-border trade.
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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present Genealogies of the Intimate: Movements in Colonial Studies 2. Rethinking Colonial Categories: European Communities and the Boundaries of Rule 3. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender and Morality in the Making of Race 4. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: Cultural Competence and the Dangers of Metissage.
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The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism
TL;DR: The authors examines current anthropological literature concerned with migration and other forms of population movement, and with the movement of information, symbols, capital, and commodities in global and transnational spaces.
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Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
TL;DR: Tensions of Empire as mentioned in this paper investigates metropolitan-colonized relationships from a new perspective, starting from the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe.