Crossing regional borders
Area specialists regularly assert the need for `border crossings', in order to highlight
interregional linkages rather than regional identities, but it is rare for these calls to be
translated into lasting institutional arrangements that make for innovative cross-regional
collaboration (for example, Volkman, 1998). Academic centres of area studies can be
remarkably inhospitable places for specialists of other areas, and cross-regional collab-
oration is almost never high on their agenda. Collaboration in the form of cross-regional
projects does occur however, for example, between Southeast Asia and East Asia and
between Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim.(36) Such geographies of cross-regional
knowing are much weaker, or even absent, between specialists of Southeast Asia and
Central Asia, or Southeast Asia and South Asia.(37)
Two themes appear to be especially useful in initiating meaningful academic col-
laboration on interregional linkages. Both have to do with perspectives on space,
distance, and mobility with the conceptual maps we use to order social life. The first
is borderlands, the second is flows of objects, people, and ideas.
Crossing regional bordersArea specialists regularly assert the need for `border crossings', in order to highlightinterregional linkages rather than regional identities, but it is rare for these calls to betranslated into lasting institutional arrangements that make for innovative cross-regionalcollaboration (for example, Volkman, 1998). Academic centres of area studies can beremarkably inhospitable places for specialists of other areas, and cross-regional collab-oration is almost never high on their agenda. Collaboration in the form of cross-regionalprojects does occur however, for example, between Southeast Asia and East Asia andbetween Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim.(36) Such geographies of cross-regionalknowing are much weaker, or even absent, between specialists of Southeast Asia andCentral Asia, or Southeast Asia and South Asia.(37)Two themes appear to be especially useful in initiating meaningful academic col-laboration on interregional linkages. Both have to do with perspectives on space,distance, and mobility with the conceptual maps we use to order social life. The firstis borderlands, the second is flows of objects, people, and ideas.
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