BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2021//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2021 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Prague X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Prague BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241222T025300 UID:euroseas-2021-between-perils-and-promises-of-mobility-aspiration-possibility-and-the-good-life-in-southeast-asia 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 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20210909T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20210909T103000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR