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SUMMARY:(P08) Between Perils and Promises of Mobility: Aspiration, Possibility, and the “Good Life” in Southeast Asia
LOCATION:K10 | 3.39
DESCRIPTION:This panel focuses on the complex ways in which aspiration, opp
 ortunity, and the notion of ‘the good life’ shape particular forms and expe
 riences of mobility in Southeast Asia. Scholars have increasingly emphasize
 d the need for a better understanding of people’s conceptions of well
 being and their visions of a good life, neither of the two ought to be conf
 ined to just material wealth or social security, as nonmaterial values are 
 equally relevant (Appadurai 2013; Fischer 2014, Hart 2012, Robbins 2012). F
 ischer’s theorisation of the ‘good life’ emphasizes the importance of aspir
 ations in understanding people’s actions and choices. Nevertheless, aspirat
 ion is framed and bounded by ‘the realm of what is seen as possible’. Aspir
 ation, possibility, and imagination of the good life are often located and 
 vary at different scales. These concepts can sometimes be at odds with each
  other across these scales. The state’s imagination of the good life can sh
 ape people’s aspiration and possibility and vice versa. At the same time, i
 ndividual aspiration and imagination of the good life can clash with those 
 of the state. Through a multi-disciplinary and multi-scalar investigation o
 f (im)mobility from and within Southeast Asia, this panel analyses the way 
 in which aspiration, possibility, and imagination of the good life by diffe
 rent actors, including people, the state, the local government, and transna
 tional actors, inform practices of mobility throughout people’s life course
 , across cultural and societal boundaries.
URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/between-perils-and-promises-of-mobility-aspiration-possibility-and-the-good-life-in-southeast-asia
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