Jeremy Jammes (editor) - Fieldwork and the Self: Changing Research Styles in Southeast Asia

This book series, indexed in Scopus, is an initiative in conjunction with Springer under the auspices of the Universiti Brunei Darussalam Institute of Asian Studies ( http://ias.ubd.edu.bn/ ). It addresses the interplay of local, national, regional and global influences in Southeast, South and East Asia and the processes of translation and exchange across boundaries and borders. The series explores a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.

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This volume and the extended period which has led to its completion would not have been possible without the generous funding and support given by Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). It provided funding for a symposium hosted by UBD on 3031 July 2018. This enabled us to invite distinguished scholars from the region and beyond, specifically Professors Jonathan Rigg, Syed Farid Alatas, Fernando N. Zialcita, R. Michael Feener and Dr Mala Rajo Sathian.

The symposium and the project associated with itwhich focused on changing research styles, methodologies and perspectives on Southeast Asiagave the opportunity to 15 researchers in a range of disciplines embracing the social sciences and humanities to reflect on their personal relationships to the research terrain, their fieldwork and their engagement with archives and library materials. An important theme for the conference participants was to encourage them to reflect on and rethink their experiences of these changing research styles and methodologies both in their continuing personal and institutional research trajectories and in the ongoing need to address the rapidly changing subjects of their studies. A vital theme which emerged was for participants to share and challenge their own quest of the self in the context of their research whether it be primary field research, networking with other scholars, or library and archival research.

Bringing together an edited volume of this kind taxed our energies and endurance. It placed pressures on us which we could not have anticipated. Our sincere thanks go to all the participants in the symposium and those who were subsequently invited to contribute to the volume for their patience and forbearance.

In our journey we are also indebted to Gareth Richards, Helena Dodge-Wan and Eryn Tan of Impress Creative and Editorial, Penang, for being so efficient and generous with their editorial skills and energy. We have no doubt that the book would not have emerged into the bright light of a tropical day without their commitment to the project. Both UBD and Institut dAsie Orientale, Lyon, France (Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies) also provided funds for copy-editing, indexing and the later stages in the preparation of the manuscript, for which we express our fulsome appreciation.

Warm thanks are also due to members of the Institute of Asian Studies, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Academy of Brunei Studies at UBD, some of whom contributed to the volume while others provided moral support and encouragement. It is a testament to a spirit of cooperation to which colleagues have given expression in producing what we firmly believe is an important contribution to our understanding of ourselves and our scholarly enterprise.