This book addresses the question of how to ground research practice in area-specific, yet globally entangled contexts such as 'Global Southeast Asia'. It offers a fruitful debate between various approaches to Southeast Asia Studies, while taking into consideration the area-specific contexts of research practice cross-cutting methodological issues.

1. Introduction: Fostering Methodological Dialogue in Southeast Asian Studies; Mikko Huotari PART I 2. Moving Theory and Methods in Southeast Asian Studies; Goh Beng-Lan 3. Southeast Asian Studies: the Conundrum of Area and Method; Victor T. King PART II 4. Doing Anthropological Fieldwork with Southeast Asian Characteristics? Identity and Adaptation in the Field; Deasy Simandjuntak and Michaela Haug 5. Performative Ethnography: Observant Participation in Southeast Asia; Eric Haanstad 6. What Does a Gender Relations Approach Bring to Southeast Asian Studies?; Kathryn Robinson 7. Learning from Locals: Doing Interviews in Southeast Asia; Paruedee Nguitragool 8. Political Analysis and the Southeast Asian Press: Decoding Meaning and Tracing Events; Jurgen Ruland, Jarno S. Jian Hui Lang, and York A. Wiese 9. Bridging Historical Analysis and Strategic Choice in Area Studies: An Analytic Narrative of Volatile Politics in Thailand, 1938-1963; Emma Masterson 10. Context Specificity of Economic Research: The Example of Corruption Research in Southeast Asia; Krisztina Kis-Katos and Gunther G. Schulze PART III 11. Grounding Governance Research in Southeast Asia: A Framework for Controlled Multi-Method Policy Analysis; Christian von Lubke 12. Qualitative Comparative Analysis for Southeast Asian Studies: Prospects for Policy Analysis of Southeast Asian Regionalism; Raul L. Cordenillo 13. Transcultural Ethnography: Reciprocity in Indonesian-German Tandem Research; Judith Schlehe and Sita Hidayah 14. Inter-Referencing Southeast Asia: Absence, Resonance and Provocation; Chua Beng Huat.

Includes bibliographical references and index.