Perak Sultan hopes Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at his alma mater, Oxford University, will pave the way.
PETALING JAYA: Sultan Nazrin Shah has urged academicians of the world to learn from Southeast Asia, and not merely regard it as an object of study.
Speaking at a dinner to mark the founding of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at his alma mater, the University of Oxford, Sultan Nazrin said Southeast Asia was more than a fascinating object of study. He cited several academic works and intellectual ideas, including Benedict Anderson’s research into Indonesian politics, James Scott’s analyses of the rural poor in Vietnam and Malaysia, and Aiwah Ong’s work on factories in Malaysia, and on Cambodian immigrants in the United States.
He hoped the new centre, of which he is the patron, would not only produce outstanding research, but also communicate it to the world.
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