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Discourses of the Southeast Asian Studies’ Identity and Sustainability

  • Asia Review
  • Abbr : SNUACAR
  • 2022, 12(3), pp.285~315
  • Publisher : 아시아연구소
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : April 30, 2022
  • Accepted : November 30, 2022
  • Published : December 31, 2022

Sinae Hyun 1

1서강대학교 동아연구소

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ABSTRACT

The article examines the discourses around the identity and sustainability of Southeast Asian Studies since the Second World War and compares them to those of Korean Southeast Asian studies. The article consists of four main parts, the first two being dedicated to the study of the Southeast Asian studies in Europe and North America and the last two focusing on the Korean case. After briefly surveying the debates around autonomous history, regional identity, and the “Thailand controversy”, the second part delves into the so-called area studies crisis in the 1990s and the rise of “indigenous” and “home scholars” in the area studies. The same part elaborates on the “transition” of the area studies from West to Southeast Asia and how the local scholars have responded to the socalled “Asianization of the Asian Studies”. In the latter half of the paper, these historical discourses become a lens to view Korean Southeast Asian studies. The third part examines the debates around the beginning of the area studies in Korea and research methodologies and approaches. The fourth part deals with the feasibility of taking the “Korean perspectives” in Southeast Asian studies.

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