Conclusion
The rethinking of Southeast Asia from the perspective of the local regional as this book suggests, is a project which cannot be divorced from social and historical context, as well as personal political-theoretical commitments to study social and political dilemmas that beset in Southeast Asia. A project entangled with, yet also distinct from, Western disciplinary and theoretical influence, regional conceptualizations are shaped by the attempts to use the humanities and the social sciences to respond to local needs. A vital reason to prioritize the "local" and to articulate the specificities of historical processes