Methodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian Studies

ISBN-13: 9781137397539 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 334 str.

Mikko Huotari; Jurgen Ruland; Judith Schlehe

Opis

This book addresses the question of how to ground research practice in area-specific, yet globally entangled contexts such as 'Global Southeast Asia'. It offers a fruitful debate between various approaches to Southeast Asia Studies, while taking into consideration the area-specific contexts of research practice cross-cutting methodological issues.

Recenzje

'This volume is a positive collective enterprise and calls scholars to bridge methodogical and epistemological divides and build theoretical and empirical knowledge in order to keep the studies and expertise of Southeast Asia relevant and thriving in Social Science research.' - Contemporary South East Asia

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Fostering Methodological Dialogue in Southeast Asian Studies; Mikko Huotari PART I 2. Moving Theory and Methods in Southeast Asian Studies; Goh Beng-Lan 3. Southeast Asian Studies: the Conundrum of Area and Method; Victor T. King PART II 4. Doing Anthropological Fieldwork with Southeast Asian Characteristics? Identity and Adaptation in the Field; Deasy Simandjuntak and Michaela Haug 5. Performative Ethnography: Observant Participation in Southeast Asia; Eric Haanstad 6. What Does a Gender Relations Approach Bring to Southeast Asian Studies?; Kathryn Robinson 7. Learning from Locals: Doing Interviews in Southeast Asia; Paruedee Nguitragool 8. Political Analysis and the Southeast Asian Press: Decoding Meaning and Tracing Events; Jurgen Ruland, Jarno S. Jian Hui Lang, and York A. Wiese 9. Bridging Historical Analysis and Strategic Choice in Area Studies: An Analytic Narrative of Volatile Politics in Thailand, 1938-1963; Emma Masterson 10. Context Specificity of Economic Research: The Example of Corruption Research in Southeast Asia; Krisztina Kis-Katos and Gunther G. Schulze PART III 11. Grounding Governance Research in Southeast Asia: A Framework for Controlled Multi-Method Policy Analysis; Christian von Lubke 12. Qualitative Comparative Analysis for Southeast Asian Studies: Prospects for Policy Analysis of Southeast Asian Regionalism; Raul L. Cordenillo 13. Transcultural Ethnography: Reciprocity in Indonesian-German Tandem Research; Judith Schlehe and Sita Hidayah 14. Inter-Referencing Southeast Asia: Absence, Resonance and Provocation; Chua Beng Huat

O autorze

Chua Beng Huat, National University of Singapore, Singapore Raul Cordenillo, KU Leuven and Antwerp University, Belgium Goh Beng-Lan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Eric Haanstad, University of Freiburg, Germany Michaela Haug, University of Cologne, Germany Sita Hidayah, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia Victor T. King, University of Leeds, UK Krisztina Kis-Katos, University of Freiburg, Germany Jarno S. Jian Hui Lang, University of Freiburg, Germany Christian von Lübke, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Germany Emma Masterson, University of Freiburg, Germany Paruedee Nguitragool, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Kathryn Robinson, Australian National University, Australia Günther Schulze, Australian National University, Australia Deasy Simandjuntak, University of Indonesia, Indonesia York A. Wiese, University of Freiburg, Germany