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New Area Studies as an Emerging Discipline: The Way Ahead for Southeast Asian Studies
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Abstract Southeast Asian Studies and Area Studies have a rather weak position in German academia, according to Vincent Houben, due to internal, but especially external institutional factors, with universities being part of a neoliberal machinery. As a field of study, Area Studies is more financially vulnerab... mehr
Southeast Asian Studies and Area Studies have a rather weak position in German academia, according to Vincent Houben, due to internal, but especially external institutional factors, with universities being part of a neoliberal machinery. As a field of study, Area Studies is more financially vulnerable than a discipline, and constantly has to prove itself academically, which is why Houben calls for a disciplinary reinvention as a singular New Area Studies. Area Studies already has most of the important characteristics that make a discipline, but lacks the necessary coherence. Houben proposes the advancement of middle-range theories and Situational Analysis as a meta-methodology to solve this issue and draws attention to the importance of cooperation among scholars. Ramon Guillermo and Elísio Macamo offer different perspectives on this proposal. Guillermo criticises Houben's piece as being too rooted in an internal Western conversation that reflects power relations in Southeast Asian Studies. Similarly, Macamo warns against exerting Western dominance through an approach such as Houben's, while also arguing that the interdisciplinary integration of Area Studies has actually given it significant symbolic capital.... weniger
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Wissenschaftslogik, Ethik der Sozialwissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
New Area Studies; Southeast Asian Studies; disciplinarity; cooperation; power relations; situational analysis
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 51-64
Zeitschriftentitel
International Quarterly for Asian Studies (IQAS), 51 (2020) 3-4
Heftthema
New Area Studies and Southeast Asia
ISSN
2566-6878
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0