Grounding Area Studies in Social Practice
The University of Freiburg pursues a transdisciplinary concept of research on Southeast Asia. The disciplines involved include Political Science, Socio-cultural Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Islamic Studies and History. Southeast Asian Studies at Freiburg build on internationalized research and teaching and strive for knowledge production in circulation by enhancing innovative models of collaborative reciprocal research. Other program components such as regional, cross-cultural and global networking, the graduate program, field schools and methodology training, the alumni and fellowship program and knowledge transfer are closely linked with the research core (more ... ). Research in this program focuses on two topics:
1. Democratization and Institutional Change in South East Asia
2. Modes of World-Making in South East Asia
News & Events
Conference Report: Methodology in Southeast Asian Studies (Freiburg, 29-31 May 2012)
In 2012, the Freiburg Southeast Asia Study Group organized an international conference on "Methodology in Southeast Asian Studies", which took place May 29-31, 2012 in Freiburg, Germany.
Workshop | "Ontology and Methodology - challenges for theory and practice in International Relations and Comparative Area Studies" (29 November 2012, Hamburg)
International Workshop at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Thursday 29 November 2012, hosted by the Hamburg International Graduate School for the Study of Regional Powers (HIGS) in cooperation with the University of Hamburg. Speakers are amongst others Patrick T. Jackson, Benjamin Herborth, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Annika Mattissek and Georg Glasze.
Conference | "Religion, Tradition and the Popular" (Freiburg, 8-10 November 2012)
The current worldwide resurgence of religion goes hand in hand with new religious practices, forms of articulation and mass mediatization as well as idiosyncratic references to the past. This interdisciplinary conference will focus on the popularization of religions in Europe, Asia and the transcultural, global space. We are especially interested in the interconnection between the making of religion, tradition and the popular.
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Publications
The ‘gold standard’ for labour export? The role of civil society in shaping multi-level Philippine migration policies.
- Author: Rother, Stefan
- Third World Quarterly, 2022
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Why Asian states cooperate in regional arrangements: Asian regionalism in comparative perspective.
- Authors: Panke, Diana; Rüland, Jürgen
- International Relations, 2021
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Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims.
- Author: Lücking, Mirjam
- Cornell University Press, 2021
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Subnational favoritism in development grant allocations: Empirical evidence from decentralized Indonesia.
- Author: Gonschorek, Gerrit J.
- World Development, 2021
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