Is a geographical region which formed by two geographic sub-regions such as Mainland Southeast Asia, and Maritime Southeast Asia. While the former comprises Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and West Malaya, the latter lumps together Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Indonesia, East Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, East Timor, Brunei, Christmas Island, and Cocos.
Published in Chapter:
Southeast Asia Tourism: Introductory Chapter
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7393-7.ch001
Abstract
The chapter starts from the assumption that in spite of the abundance of research about Southeast Asia, they are published by native English speakers such as Australians or Britons, instead of genuine Southeast Asians. In addition, they emulate long dormant discourses forged and used during the colonial rule to domesticate the non-Western “Other.” Alternating among the fields of heritage consumption, dark tourism, a post-colonial landscape, and of course the scourge of terrorism, these studies obscure more than they clarify – most probably replicating the essence of colonialism. This book aims to discuss new themes and horizons allowing youth researchers to produce knowledge from the bottom up.