Theme: 8. Negotiating Margins: Power, Agencies, Representations, Resistances

Global Southeast Asias as Method

Panel Convenor(s)

• JP

  Justin Phan

  University of Illinois - Chicago, United States

Panel Chair(s)

• LC

  Lina Chhun

  University of Texas at Austin, United States

Presenter(s)

• JP

  Justin Phan

  University of Illinois - Chicago, United States
• LC

  Lina Chhun

  University of Texas at Austin, United States
• JP

  Jewel Pereyra

  Boston University, United States

 Historically, interdisciplinary fields such as Afro-Asian studies, postcolonial historiography and theory, transnational feminist studies, and critical race and ethnic studies have studied the generative directions in disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary scholarship that can emerge from placing Southeast Asia and Third World politics in relation to one another. Building on and departing from these foundations, our panel draws on our individual research interests and expertise in Cambodia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam and thinks about them through a Global Southeast Asias framework, following Tina Chen’s formulation of Global Asias. Taking inspiration from Dakar’s long heritage of cross-cultural and cross-continental relations and the Africa-Asia ConFest subtheme of “Negotiating Margins: Power, Agencies, Representations, Resistances,” the panel triangulates studies of Southeast Asia through theories about and from the Black diaspora, African continent, Europe and the Americas, examining how Global Southeast Asias can function as a mode of knowledge production, transmission and circulation to engage emergent interdisciplinary intellectual and political formations such as Black feminism and queer theory, Tri-Continentalism and Left Third-Worldism, trans-continental and archipelagic studies, and critical refugee, mixed-race, and diaspora studies. In doing so, our panel demonstrates how a method and praxis of Global Southeast Asias rubs up against and cuts across disciplinary borders, global political formations, historical periodizations, and temporal-spatial scales.

Presentations:

• 11:15 - 13:00 GMT

  Embodied Nonalignment: Vietnamese-Senegalese Aesthetics and Cold War Intimacies
  

  Presenter: Justin Phan – University of Illinois - Chicago
• 11:15 - 13:00 GMT

  The Tragedy of Legal Genocide: Colonial Modernity and the Cold War
  

  Presenter: Lina Chhun – University of Texas at Austin
• 11:15 - 13:00 GMT

  Afro-Filipina Aesthetics: Transnational Sound Cultures and Dance Performances
  

  Presenter: Jewel Pereyra – Boston University