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Memory in the Mekong: Regional Identity, Schools, and Politics in Southeast Asia
No full textThis edited collection explores the possibilities, perils, and politics of constructing a regional identity. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a multinational institution comprised of 10 member states, is dedicated to building a Southeast Asian regional identity that includes countries along Southeast Asia’s Mekong River delta: Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
After successfully establishing an economic community in 2015, where capital and people can freely move across national borders, ASEAN and its partners now aim to develop a sociocultural community that is fully functional in a wide range of sectors by 2025. As part of this vision, ASEAN wishes to construct a regional identity by uniting over 600 million people, which will be achieved partly through national school systems that teach shared histories. In this text, the contributors critically examine the many questions that arise in the face of this significant change: What does an ASEAN identity look like? Is it even possible or desirable to create a common identity across the diverse peoples of Southeast Asia? Given the divergent memories of history, how would a regional identity exist alongside national identity? Memory in the Mekong grapples with these questions by exploring issues of shared history, national identity, and schooling in a region that is frequently underexamined and underrepresented in Western scholarship
Book Review: Kitamura, Yuto, et al. (eds), The Political Economy of Schooling in Cambodia: Issues of Quality and Equity
Full text linkBook Review of the compilation Kitamura, Yuto, D. Brent Edwards Jr., Chhinh Sitha, and James H. Williams (eds) (2016), The Political Economy of Schooling in Cambodia: Issues of Quality and Equity. Palgrave Macmillan US, ISBN: 978-1-137-45599-4, XII + 245 pages, (ebook ISBN: 978-1-137-45600-7
Regional Memory in Contemporary Cambodia: “Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity”
No full textThis chapter explores the construction of official memory in Cambodia during an era of regionalization as outlined in Chapter 1. Official memory is the sanctioned version of a nation’s history—the so-called “present assertions of past facts” deemed appropriate by the State.1 It can—and usually does—differ from family and religious memory.2 Official memory is propagandist, for it represents the interests of elites in power.3 In Cambodia, elite interests have, at least since the ousting from power of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, coalesced around the ruling party, today called the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), and its long-serving prime minister, Hun Sen.4 In the post-1979 version of official memory, Hun Sen is a national hero for ousting the Khmer Rouge and saving the Khmer nation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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