Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7czq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T08:07:28.579Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Emerging Issues In Southeast Asian Geography: Local, Non-Local and Collaborative Scholarship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2013

Philip Hirsch
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This paper reviews several prominent journals to identify key trends and issues in Southeast Asian geography. The review identifies the locus of articles' geographical scholarship, the balance between issue-based versus other types of articles, and the trends in the subject matter of the issue-based publications. The paper considers the meaning of an ‘issue-based’ approach to geography in local and non-local geographical scholarship on and in Southeast Asia. Geography as taught and practiced in Southeast Asia has followed a largely idiographic tradition based on description of landscapes, regions, settlement patterns, and so on. At an applied level, geography in some Southeast Asian countries has tended toward regional planning rather than engaging more centrally with the social sciences. Geography as a critical social science has only a loose purchase in the inherently geographical debates around development, environment, globalisation, and regionalisation in Southeast Asia. On the other hand, geographers from outside the region have engaged in more critical study, and geographical teaching and research on Southeast Asia in Australasia, North America, and Europe tends to take an issue-based approach and to be situated broadly within the realm of ‘development geography’. The paper also concludes with the question of how the discipline can better serve an issue-based agenda without being dominated by western critical social science.

Keywords

Southeast Asiageographydevelopment geography
Type
Articles
Information
TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia , Volume 1 , Special Issue 1: Movement, Motion, and the (Im-)Permeability of Boundaries , January 2013 , pp. 105 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © Institute of East Asian Studies, Sogang University 2013 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Adger, W. Niel. 2000. Institutional adaptation to environmental risk under the transition in Vietnam. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90(4), 738–758.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Agergaard, Jytte, Niels, Fold and Gough, Katherine. 2009. Global-local interactions: socioeconomic and spatial dynamics in Vietnam's coffee frontier. Geographical Journal 175(2), 133–145.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London and New York: Verso.Google Scholar
Barney, Keith. 2009. Laos and the making of a ‘relational’ resource frontier. Geographical Journal 175(2), 146–159.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
De Koninck, Rodolphe. 2000. The theory and practice of frontier development: Vietnam's contribution. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 41(1), 7–21.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Déry, Steve. 2000. Agricultural colonisation in Lam Dong province, Vietnam . Asia Pacific Viewpoint 41(1), 35–49.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dixon, Chris. 2000. State versus capital: the regulation of the Vietnamese foreign sector. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 21(3), 279–294.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eilenberg, Michael and Wadley, Reed. 2009. Borderland livelihood strategies: the socio-economic significance of ethnicity in cross-border labour migration, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 50(1), 58–73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fold, Niels. 2000. Globalisation, state regulation and industrial upgrading of the oil seed industries in Malaysia and Brazil. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 21(3), 263–278.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fold, Niels and Hirsch, Philip. 2009. Re-thinking frontiers in Southeast Asia . Geographical Journal 175(2), 95–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Glassman, Jim. 2004. Thailand at the Margins: Internationalization of the State and the Transformation of Labour. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Glassman, Jim. 2005. On the borders of Southeast Asia: Cold War geography and the construction of the Other. Political Geography 24(7), 784–807.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hall, Derek, Hirsch, Philip and Li, Tania Murray (eds.). 2011. Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia. Singapore and Honolulu: National University of Singapore Press and University of Hawaii Press.Google Scholar
Hardy, Andrew. 2000. Strategies of migration to upland areas in contemporary Vietnam. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 41(1), 23–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hirsch, Philip. 2001. Globalisation, regionalisation and local voices: the Asian development bank and rescaled politics of environment in the Mekong region. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 22(3), 237–251.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hirsch, Philip. 2009. Revisiting frontiers as transitional spaces in Thailand . Geographical Journal 175(2), 124–132.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jackson, Richard. 1990. The cheque's in the mail: the distribution of dependence on overseas sources of income in the Philippines. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 11(2), 76–86.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Klanarong, Nisakorn. 2009. Border crossing of Muslim women in southern-border provinces of Thailand . Asia Pacific Viewpoint 50(1), 74–87.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Laverty, Martin. 1980. Water chemistry in the Gunung Mulu National Park including problems of interpretation and use . Geographical Journal 146(2), 232–245.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lee, David and Evans, Arthur. 1985. Geographers' rankings of foreign geography and non-geography journals. The Professional Geographer 37(4), 396–402.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ley, R.G. 1980. The pinnacles of Gunung Api (Mulu National Park). Geographical Journal 146(1), 14–21.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
May, Ronald. 1990. Ethnic separatism in Southeast Asia. Pacific Viewpoint 31(2), 28–59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McCarthy, John and Cramb, Rob. 2009. Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers. Geographical Journal 175(2), 112–123.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Michaud, Jean and Turner, Sarah. 2000. The Sa Pa marketplace, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 41(1), 85–100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Neville, Warwick. 1990. The population composition of Brunei. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 11(1), 27–42.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ong, Michael. 1990. Malaysia: communalism and the political system. Pacific Viewpoint 31(2), 73–95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Osmaston, Henry. 1980. Patterns in trees, rivers and rocks in the Mulu Park, Sarawak. Geographical Journal 146(1), 33–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Potter, Lesley. 2009. Resource periphery, corridor, heartland: contesting land use in the Kalimantan/Malaysia borderlands. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 50(1), 88–106.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pryor, E.G. 1980. Housing in the 1980s – a perspective on Southeast Asian cities. Pacific Viewpoint 21(2), 116–143.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rigg, Jonathan, Bebbington, Anthony, Gough, Katherine V., Bryceson, Deborah F., Agergaard, Jytte, Fold, Niels and Tacoli, Cecillia. 2009. The World Development Report 2009 ‘reshapes economic geography’: geographical reflections. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34(2), 128–136.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rigg, Jonathan and Peter, Vandergeest (eds.). 2012. Revisiting Rural Places: Pathways to Poverty and Prosperity in Southeast Asia. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.Google Scholar
Scott, Steffanie. 2000. Changing rules of the game: Local responses to decollectivisation in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 41(1), 69–84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Seavoy, Ronald. 1980. Population pressure and land use change: from tree crops to sawah in Northwestern Kalimantan, Indonesia. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 1(2), 61–67.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Smeltzer, Sandra. 2009. A Malaysia-United States free trade agreement: Malaysian media and domestic resistance. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 50(1), 13–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tan, Stan, B.H. 2000. Coffee frontiers in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: networks of connectivity. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 41(1), 51–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Waltham, Anthony and Brook, Dave. 1980. Cave development in the Melinau limestone of the Gunung Mulu National Park. Geographical Journal 146(2), 258–266.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Winichakul, Thongchai. 1994. Siam Mapped: A History of the Geobody of a Nation. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press.Google Scholar
World Bank. 2009. World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography. Washington, DC: World Bank.Google Scholar