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SUMMARY:Transimperial approaches to Southeast Asian colonial history: opportunities, challenges, limitations
LOCATION:Classroom B 51
DESCRIPTION:This panel aims to critically engage with the opportunities, ch
 allenges, and limitations of transimperial history as a historical perspect
 ive for colonial histories of Southeast Asia. Emerging from an extensive se
 t of historiographical turns (transnational, imperial, global), transimperi
 al history’s main aim is to de-isolate histories of empires from their nati
 onal historiographies. It aims to do so by critically analyzing cooperation
 s, conflicts, and connectivity in the spaces between and beyond imperial bo
 undaries (Hedinger & Hée, 2018). With formal colonies of British, Dutch
 , French, Spanish, American, Portuguese, and Japanese empires, and informal
  interactions with many other imperial powers, one can argue that colonial 
 histories of Southeast Asia are fertile ground for transimperial approaches
 . It is therefore surprising that during the last decade’s blossoming of th
 is field, the number of transimperial histories discussing colonialism in S
 outheast Asia have been relatively scarce and remain somewhat fragmented.\n
 This panel brings together scholars researching transimperial connections b
 etween different Southeast Asian colonial contexts, or those stretching bey
 ond Southeast Asia into the wider world. While aiming for a diversity in th
 emes, geographies, time periods, and types of connections, the papers prese
 nted in this panel will collectively reflect on how transimperial approache
 s can be complementary with regional approaches in Southeast Asian history.
  At the same time, the panel’s concluding discussion will critically engage
  with the limitations of the transimperial approach, as such approaches may
  run the risk of re-affirming the centrality of European historical narrati
 ves in Southeast Asian historiography. Participants are therefore specifica
 lly invited to reflect on how transimperial approaches can integrate decolo
 nial perspectives and give sufficient attention to the agencies of local po
 pulations in challenging, resisting, or appropriating such transimperial co
 nnections.
URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/transimperial-approaches-to-southeast-asian-colonial-history-opportunities-challenges-limitations
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