About us
The Chair “Southeast Asian Societies and Cultures” focuses on the analysis of the reproduction and transformation of social inequalities in Southeast Asian societies. A particular emphasis of the research lies in analyzing hard-to-study social structures within armed groups as well as power elites. Guided by principles of a global Sociology, the societies and cultures of Southeast Asia are understood both as a space that can advance social-theoretical questions and as locally, regionally, and globally situated. Southeast Asian power elites, armed groups and other fields are not confined to national or regional borders but also, for instance, encompass diaspora communities as well as international institutions and actors.
Starting in 2025, the chair will also work within the framework of a DFG Heisenberg Grant on a comparative project on the “Global Sociology of Elite Conflicts” focusing on power elites in Cambodia, Ghana, Argentina, and Spain.
Lecture Series
HU Southeast Asian Societies and Cultures Lecture Series
Next event : June 27th, 2PM. Invalidenstraße 118, Raum 117 and online via Zoom.
Book Launch: “Global Handbook of Inequality” with
Surinder Jodhka (Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
HU Global Sociology of Elite Conflict Lecture Series
Next lecture: June 19th, 2PM. Online.
"Global Economic Elites in Comparative Perspective. The Methodological Challenges of Analyzing Informal and Volatile Economies. Lessons from Argentina"
Gabriel Levita (CONICET)
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