Cross-sectoral dialogues with social movements in Southeast Asia: translating values, affects, and practices in a polymorphic region

The examination of social movements in Southeast Asia involves tackling the question of the co-existence and interaction of different forms of research on and with social movements. Activists, artists, academic researchers, social advocates and practitioners might consider what it means for them to connect to each other, as well as to engage in intercultural and ideo-praxical translations. By discussing particular case studies in the region, we will attempt to analyse how social struggles come about cross-sectorally, through questions and dilemmas that have arisen along the way. In a context of embedded regimes of norms, values and practices that may draw rigid boundaries between these fields, how might lines between research and activism become blurred or, on the contrary, be recast?