Article(print) World Affairs Online1984

" Southeast Asia": what's in a name?

In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, p. 1-21

Emmerson, Donald K

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Abstract

By reviewing the making of the name "Southeast Asia", the author argues that the crystallization of "Southeast Asia" into a set of nation-states enabled agreement on the term's boundaries, but inhibited the holism needed to change a cartographic convenience into an entity with an identity internal to itself. While not necessarily superior to nationalism, regionalism can help to contain and moderate the destructive effects of narrower self-identification

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