{"title":"The transformation of South East Asian studies in China: Sinocentric and de-Sinocentric paradigms","authors":"Ruixin Yang","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2197255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2197255","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The issue of Sinocentrism has attracted growing scholarly attention in reviews regarding the state of South East Asian Studies in China. However, reports in recent decades have not addressed the ‘Sinocentric paradigm’ in further depth. It remains unclear how this research appears under this paradigm and what paradigmatic changes are happening in the field. To answer these questions, this article examines research published in relevant Chinese journals between 1980 and 2019 and selects thirty-three representative samples for demonstration. I argue that research into the social and cultural interactions between China and South East Asia shows that South East Asian Studies in China are undergoing a significant paradigm transition. The established Sinocentric paradigm present in discourses of the old conception of ‘Chinese colonialism’ and the newer one of ‘Chinese influence’ is increasingly challenged by an emerging de-Sinocentric paradigm. This is particularly visible in the fields of media and communication studies and studies of cross-border ethnicities. The transformation of the landscape of this Chinese scholarship deserves greater attention from academics from both inside and outside China.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"179 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46886240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Worshipping the Other: a literary anthropological study of the Datuk Gong cult in Malaysia","authors":"Zhaoyuan Wang","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2243210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2243210","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Malaysia, Malays and Chinese are considered to be two distinct ethnic groups. Therefore, the popular cult of Malay-Muslim Datuk Gong among Chinese religious believers – a worship of ‘the Other’ – is a fascinating ethno-religious phenomenon. Adopting the approach of literary anthropology to examine discrete writings on Datuk Gong produced by different individuals over a century, this article explores the multiple meanings of ‘worshipping the Other’ to Malay(si)an Chinese. Such worship reflects a dual respect and fear of nature and ethnic strangers, an imagination to integrate ethnic differences with the natives into a virtual kinship, a sense of harmonious community among diverse neighbours, a deep anxiety of diaspora identity and a feeling of powerlessness in ethnic conflicts with the dominant groups. Applying Pierre Bourdieu’s theory on ‘habitus’ and ‘fields’, the article argues that instead of passively participating in the Datuk Gong worship, Chinese believers actively interpret it to construct diverse ‘Selves and Others’ based on the different habitus and fields they occupy.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"166 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45077216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Return of the junta: why Myanmar’s military must return to barracks","authors":"B. Anderson","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2023.2236455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2023.2236455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"208 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45413343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ramifications of displacement for mealtime-related activities, practices and dynamics among people affected by conflict in Mindanao, Philippines","authors":"Zaldy C. Collado","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2206973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2206973","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Displaced by war in 2017, internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Marawi City in southern Philippines continue to face severe economic challenges, seriously undermining their mealtime-related affairs. This article examines the extent to which displacement has negatively impacted activities or practices related to mealtime preparation, the actual family meal or commensality and the frequency of mealtimes among the IDPs. Findings were drawn from fourteen IDP couples who participated in in-depth interviews. Results indicate that displacement has caused a serious decline in economic resources, which, in turn, has translated into less participation in meal preparation, decreasing quality and quantity of food served at the meal table, less enthusiastic involvement in mealtimes, and irregular family meals. The article argues that conflict and the displacement it causes impact not only the food itself but all that is related to its preparation and consumption within the household. The study suggests that examining the broader context of mealtime-related activities and practices offers a wider understanding of how IDPs suffer displacement in the context of kitchen and meal table environments.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"132 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42975606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language superdiversity among ethnic minority communities in southeast Vietnam","authors":"Van Khang Nguyen, Thi-Hanh Tran","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2222544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2222544","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Our research investigates multilingual practices and communication among ethnic minority communities in the southeast of Vietnam, where globalization and migration have led to dramatic changes in all aspects of socioeconomic life. A range of empirical data collected through interviews, questionnaires and direct observation of interviewees in their daily interactions helps to determine what languages or language varieties they are speaking and how they are speaking with them. Our aim is to present how rich linguistic superdiversity is in the region. The findings show that in everyday social interactions, speakers move dynamically and creatively between fragments from a number of languages to fulfil a variety of strategic and communicative functions in appropriate domains of use. The flexible use of named languages, including the national vernacular, Vietnamese, as well as ethnic minorities’ languages and other language varieties, offers new insights into the complexity of language superdiversity and signifies a need to review post-multilingualism issues in Vietnam in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"196 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49557733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moments of silence: the unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, massacre in Bangkok","authors":"T. Haberkorn","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2221555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2221555","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"205 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48242489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fluid jurisdictions: colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia","authors":"S. Mandal","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2208912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2208912","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"100 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48899437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blessing the living spaces of migrants: religious practices of Thai workers in Japan and their meanings","authors":"Jessadakorn Kalapong","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2174041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2174041","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Existing literature suggests that religion plays a significant role in migrants’ social and cultural capital, engaging them with their ethnic communities both within and across the host countries’ borders. This article proposes that religion provides a mechanism for migrants to reconstitute their spaces under the subjugation of a migratory structure. The article reports findings of a case study of Thai technical intern trainees who are guest workers in Japan, examining their religious practices and the reconstitution of their living spaces, and considering the meanings associated with those practices. It focuses on a broad spectrum of Thai religiosity, which is characterized by an amalgam of diverse ritual and cosmological domains. It allows for the inclusion of a broader range of religious practices serving as repertoires for Thai migrants. Living in subjugating circumstances in Japan, religious practices such as carrying sacred objects and worshipping mystical entities instil in migrants’ spaces a sense of being blessed and protected. The reconstituted space is transnationally connected to mystical powers and their families in Thailand. The new essence of comfort and familiarity attached to their living spaces helps mitigate constraints during their stay in the destination country.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"19 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41749876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Winning by process: the state and neutralization of ethnic minorities in Myanmar","authors":"Nick Cheesman","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2177440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2177440","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"104 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47851186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The culture of pamatbat and parapamatbat in the Central Philippines","authors":"S. I. Agaton, Joezenon Apurillo Purog","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2175716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2175716","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A pamatbat is a prayer used amongst Catholics in the Philippines to petition or give thanks to God, Mary or the saints through the assistance of a parapamatbat, or prayer leader. Utilizing an oral-history method, this paper delves into three aspects of this intangible culture. First, the practice of pamatbat and the existence of parapamatbat come under the auspices of the Catholic faith, and are still extant. The acquisition of the knowledge required to be a parapamatbat relies on the oral transfer of skills, and this report documents this practice. Second, the prayer leaders engaged in this activity normally do not charge fees for their services, though prudence dictates that those availing of their service repay them either in cash or in kind. In a way, there is an economic consideration in this practice, which becomes a form of livelihood. Third, some values – faith in God and helpfulness – are nourished through this religion. Praying is a form of religiosity and the bigger challenge is the conversion of religious actions into moral life. The continuous presence of pamatbat enhances these values and the Filipino culture as a whole.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"87 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48503376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}