Paramount among them is the issue of local contributions to building concepts that can better account for historical experiences specific to the region, which are at the same time interconnected with larger histories, given the experiences of migration colonialism, foreign education, and other aspects of global interaction.
Scholars from the region have been engaging with these concerns since the 1950s.10 During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, indigenous voices vigorously contested the dominance of colonial scholars in mapping out the field of Southeast Asian Studies. Forming part of the "indigenization and "decolonization" intellectual movements in many Third World countries at the time, these local voices were often characterized by passionate and emotive writings about regionally embedded agencies and identities which were analysed within nation state frameworks. Often falling outside universal intellectual norms of impartiality and secular objectivity, they were sidelined as Asia-centric" by academic discourses emerging from Southeast Asian studies centres in the United States, Australia, and Europe. Tainted by the problem of atavism and essentialism, these scholarships were seen to be in the service of nationalist interests.
Paramount among them is the issue of local contributions to building concepts that can better account for historical experiences specific to the region, which are at the same time interconnected with larger histories, given the experiences of migration colonialism, foreign education, and other aspects of global interaction.
Scholars from the region have been engaging with these concerns since the 1950s.10 During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, indigenous voices vigorously contested the dominance of colonial scholars in mapping out the field of Southeast Asian Studies. Forming part of the "indigenization and "decolonization" intellectual movements in many Third World countries at the time, these local voices were often characterized by passionate and emotive writings about regionally embedded agencies and identities which were analysed within nation state frameworks. Often falling outside universal intellectual norms of impartiality and secular objectivity, they were sidelined as Asia-centric" by academic discourses emerging from Southeast Asian studies centres in the United States, Australia, and Europe. Tainted by the problem of atavism and essentialism, these scholarships were seen to be in the service of nationalist interests.
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