Using the presence of the past as a point of departure, this books explores three critical themes in Southeast Asian oral history: the relationship between oral history and official histories produced by nation-states; the nature of memories of violence; and intersections between oral history, oral tradition, and heritage discourses.

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Kah Seng Loh is Assistant Professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University. He is author of The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya: Tangled Strands of Modernity (co-authored 2012) and Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore (forthcoming in 2013).

Stephen Dobbs is Associate Professor in Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. He is author of The Singapore River: A Social History 1819-2002 (2002) and co-author of Engineers Engaging Community: Water and Energy (2013).

Ernest Koh is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Australia. He is author of Singapore Stories: Language, Class, and the Chinese of Singapore (2010) and Diaspora At War: The Chinese of Malaya between Empire and Nation 1937-1945 (forthcoming in 2013).

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1. Oral History and Fragments in Southeast Asia; Loh Kah Seng, Ernest Koh and Alistair Thomson PART I: ORAL HISTORY AND OFFICIAL HISTORY  2. Family Memories as Alternative Narratives to the State's Construction of Singapore's National History; Kevin Blackburn 3. 'You have picked a wrong candidate:' Latent Fragments and Reasonable Narratives of the British Military Withdrawal from Singapore; Loh Kah Seng 4. Remembrance, Nation, and the Second World War in Singapore: The Chinese Diaspora and their Wars; Ernest Koh PART II: MEMORIES OF VIOLENCE 5. On the Fluidity and Stability of Personal Memory: Jibin Arula and the Jabidah Massacre in the Philippines; Rommel A. Curaming and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied 6. Narratives of the 'Red Barrel' Incident: Collective and Individual Memories in Lamsin, Southern Thailand; Jularat Damrongviteetham 7. Memory, Trauma and Nation: History and Memory Contestation in Malaysia; Leong Kar Yen PART III: ORAL TRADITION AND HERITAGE 8. The Anthropologist asHeroine: Contemporary Interpretations of Memory and Heritage in an Indonesian Valley; Emilie Wellfelt 9. Oral History, Heritage Conservation and the Leprosy Settlement: The Sungai Buloh Community in Malaysia; Chou Wen Loong and Ho Sok Fong 10. Memory, Heritage and the Singapore River: 'It is like a dead snake'; Stephen Dobbs