By Institute Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) (Singapore).
ISBN-10: 9814311561
ISBN-13: 9789814311564
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Her new job has forced Koanantakool to rethink the meaning of “public anthropology” as it unfolds in the Thai context, and how she could help reshape the manner and direction of anthropology’s public engagement to bring about a balance between state and public interests. As she searched for answers, she soon realized that the model of “public anthropology” which emerged from the United States — a field to integrate anthropology into societal engagements and public policy advocacy — was not applicable to the Thai case.
What is perhaps unique is that while disagreements abound over what constitutes “national”, there appears to be a general commitment to the idea of “national” across all the cohorts, although this commitment is more complicated among the younger scholars, given theoretical pressures to repudiate “national”. Among the senior scholars, for instance, allegiance to “national” is manifested in the intellectual anger of Taufik against a Java-centric national history of Indonesia which ignores contributions from nationalist movements in Aceh and West Sumatra.
Such constraints demand ingenuity on the part of researchers to carve strategies which can tailor research projects to meet state requirements without sacrificing theoretical rigour. Despite the limitations, Fadjar reminds us that LIPI researchers are perhaps some of the least obedient government researchers in Indonesia and, in fact, some LIPI researchers were renowned critics of the New Order Government at the time. Yet there are instances where scholars see the virtue in joining state institutions in order to help transform things from the inside.
Decentring & diversifying Southeast Asian studies by Institute Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) (Singapore).
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