Southeast Asianists have a perennial tendency to question the reality of the region in which they are specialized. Yet while scholars have doubted, Southeast Asians at large have become increasingly sure that Southeast Asia does exist, and increasingly inclined to identify with it. This article summarizes a range of evidence to that effect, from opinion poll research and from the history of ASEAN and other pan-Southeast Asian institutions, and uses it to construct a critique of the relativistic view that Southeast Asia is a fluid and ill-defined concept. Southeast Asians today tend to see Southeast Asia as a cultural as well as a geographical and institutional unit. The nature of the perceived cultural unity remains unclear, and further research is called for in this area. There are reasons to think, however, that it reflects real inheritances from a shared past, as well as shared aspirations for the future.
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[ Abstract ] Ⅰ. Introduction Ⅱ. Destructive fantasies: Zomia and the postmodern attack on Southeast Asian Studies Ⅲ. Southeast Asia in Southeast Asia: beyond deconstruction Ⅳ. Demarcating ASEAN Ⅴ. Socializing Southeast Asia: communications and institutions Ⅵ. Imagining Southeast Asia Ⅶ. In search (again) of Southeast Asia Ⅷ. Concluding remarks References
본 연구소는 아시아 지역 및 관련 국가의 정치, 경제, 사회, 역사, 문화, 언어등에 관하여 지역연구 방법론을 통한 학제적 연구에 그 목적을 두고 아시아 각 지역의 최신 정보 및 자료의 수집, 정리, 분석, 제공에 중점을 둔다. 이와 관련하여 국내외 대학 및 연구기관과의 학술교류에 주력하여 지역연구부문 최고의 중점 연구소로의 성장을 목표로 한다.