The Prison and the Sea

Jan Mrazek

doi:10.22801/svn.2019.11.1.7

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The Prison and the Sea

SUVANNABHUMI
Abbr : SVN
2019, 11(1), pp.7-40
DOI : 10.22801/svn.2019.11.1.7

Publisher : Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
Research Area : Southeast Asia

Received : April 10, 2018
Accepted : December 15, 2018
Published : January 31, 2019

Jan Mrazek ¹

¹National University of Singapore

ABSTRACT
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The essay reflects on the work of Adrian Lapian (1929-2011), an Indonesian scholar of archipelagic/maritime Southeast Asia and its “sea people―sea pirates―sea kings.” The essay suggests that Lapian’s writing mirrors navigation at sea, and the constant re-orientation and ever-changing, multiple points of view that are part of it. This is contrasted to Foucault’s “panopticism” and academic desire for discipline. Taking cue from Lapian’s writing and from the present author’s experience of seafaring, the essay envisions Southeast Asian studies as a fluid, precarious, disorienting, even nauseating multiplicity of experiences, dialogues, and moving, unstable, and uncertain points of view; a style of learning that is less (neo)colonial, more humble, and closer to experiences in the region, than super-scholarship that imposes universalizing, panoptic standards, theories and methods (typically self-styled as “new”) that reduce the particular into a specimen of the general, a cell in the Panopticon. The essay concludes with reflections on certain learning initiatives/traditions at the National University of Singapore, including seafaring voyages―experiences, encounters, and conversations that make students and scholars alike to move and see differently, to be touched, blown away, rocked, swayed, disoriented, swallowed, transformed, and feel anew their places, roots, bonds, distances, fears, blindness, powerlessness.
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Adrian Lapian, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, panopticism, maritime Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Riau Islands, archipelagic studies, area studies and disciplines, seafaring, experiential learning

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