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
First FRIAS Lunch Lecture on Thursday, 23 April
The presentation of "Disparities in local development and political competition in the Philippines" will be given by FRIAS Senior Fellow Prof. Joseph J. Capuno, Economics, University of the Philippines
Lecture | Prof. Rüland on ASEAN and Indonesian Foreign Policy at the University of Indonesia
On Wednesday, 11 March, Prof. Rüland will give a talk on "ASEAN and Indonesian Foreign Policy: Domestic Discourses and Indonesian Images of Regionalism"
Seminar | "Jokowi's Indonesia: A Preliminary Assessment" on 27 February
Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Freiburg, the FRIAS Research Group on Southeast Asia in cooperation with the Center for Transcultural Asian Studies (CETRAS) are organizing a seminar looking back at the first four months of the Jokowi presidency.
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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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