Interested in exploring the fascinating transregional and globe-spanning ties of Southeast Asia? This page offers an overview of the Regional Department for Transregional Southeast Asian Studies.
The field of Transregional Southeast Asian Studies (TranSOAS) focuses on the diverse social, political, cultural, ontological, epistemic, emotional, spiritual, and economic connections beyond the regional borders of Southeast Asia. We pay particular attention to trans- and pluri-local relations, for example, between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region), or between East, South, and Southeast Asia. Our work and research revolve around political developments and orders, social challenges, gender relations, and religious and social movements. The department sees itself as a representative of New Area Studies, including Europe or the West as one area among many and reconfiguring the concept of the "region" (area). Our studies use local analytical approaches and concepts, and we critically examine hegemonic knowledge production.
Kefraya, libanesisches Weinbaugebiet in der Bekaebene; Foto: Claudia Derichs
Research collaboration at eye level: What the Global North can learn from the Global South
The "co2libri" and "CritUP" projects explore collaboration with partners from Latin America, Africa and Asia. Why do we know so little about the research theories of the Global South? And how can we change that? read more>>>
Claudia Derichs (3rd from right) with her colleagues from "Assosiasi Studi Gender dan Anak", an inter-university association for gender studies in Indonesia
Edited by Lina Knorr, Andrea Fleschenberg, Sumrin Kalia, and Claudia Derichs
"Local Responses to Global Challenges in Southeast Asia — A Transregional Studies Reader" is a collection of multidisciplinary essays, predominantly derived from papers presented at EuroSEAS 2019, the leading academic conference on Southeast Asian Studies, hosted by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It brings together a variety of scholars from Southeast Asia, Europe and North America, allowing for multiple flows and directionalities of knowledge productions and exchanges, be it between the Global South and North as well as within the Global South.
"Transnational solidarity - Anticolonialism in the global sixties", edited by Zeina Maasri, Cathy Bergin and Francesca Burke. To be published by: Manchester University Press.
with contribution by Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs: "The long sixties and Islamist activism: radical transregional solidarities"
