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Explores the possibilities, perils, and politics of constructing a regional identity. The book examines issues of shared history, national identity, and schooling in a region that is frequently underexamined and underrepresented in Western scholarship.

Table of Contents
  • Contents
  • Foreword Thongchai Winichakul  ix
  • Acknowledgments  xi
  • Introduction: Toward a Southeast Asian Identity? Schools as Contested Sites of Collective Memory  1
  • Will Brehm
  • Part I: Regional Memory
  • 1.  The UNESCO Shared Histories Curriculum: Paradoxes and Possibilities  23
  • Rosalie Metro and Will Brehm
  • 2.  Regional Memory in Con­temporary Cambodia: "Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity"  47
  • Will Brehm
  • Part II: National Memory
  • 3.  Whose Kingdoms and Whose Settlement? Hegemonic National Memory Inside Thai Textbooks  75
  • Vong-on Phuaphansawat and ­Will Brehm
  • 4.  Vietnamese Citizenship in Transition: State Curricula Pre- and Post-Doi Moi  103
  • Bich-Hang Duong
  • Part III: Public Memory
  • 5.  Thinking With History in Pursuit of Truth in Myanmar  133
  • Anna Zongollowicz
  • 6.  Finding Unity in Diversity: Public Identity Patterns in Lao PDR  153
  • Will Brehm, Thongdeuane Nanthanavone, Somsanit Larvankham, and Yasushi Hirosato
  • 7.  Exploring Unity and Diversity in the Histories of Southeast Asia  177
  • Yuto Kitamura
  • Afterword Shigeru Aoyagi  187
  • About the Editors and Contributors  191
  • Index  193

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      Publisher: Teachers' College Press
      Publication Date: 30/03/2022
      ISBN13: 9780807766361, 978-0807766361
      ISBN10: 0807766364

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the possibilities, perils, and politics of constructing a regional identity. The book examines issues of shared history, national identity, and schooling in a region that is frequently underexamined and underrepresented in Western scholarship.

      Table of Contents
      • Contents
      • Foreword Thongchai Winichakul  ix
      • Acknowledgments  xi
      • Introduction: Toward a Southeast Asian Identity? Schools as Contested Sites of Collective Memory  1
      • Will Brehm
      • Part I: Regional Memory
      • 1.  The UNESCO Shared Histories Curriculum: Paradoxes and Possibilities  23
      • Rosalie Metro and Will Brehm
      • 2.  Regional Memory in Con­temporary Cambodia: "Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity"  47
      • Will Brehm
      • Part II: National Memory
      • 3.  Whose Kingdoms and Whose Settlement? Hegemonic National Memory Inside Thai Textbooks  75
      • Vong-on Phuaphansawat and ­Will Brehm
      • 4.  Vietnamese Citizenship in Transition: State Curricula Pre- and Post-Doi Moi  103
      • Bich-Hang Duong
      • Part III: Public Memory
      • 5.  Thinking With History in Pursuit of Truth in Myanmar  133
      • Anna Zongollowicz
      • 6.  Finding Unity in Diversity: Public Identity Patterns in Lao PDR  153
      • Will Brehm, Thongdeuane Nanthanavone, Somsanit Larvankham, and Yasushi Hirosato
      • 7.  Exploring Unity and Diversity in the Histories of Southeast Asia  177
      • Yuto Kitamura
      • Afterword Shigeru Aoyagi  187
      • About the Editors and Contributors  191
      • Index  193

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