Will Brehm is an associate professor at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. Yuto Kitamura is a professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo.

• ContentsForeword Thongchai Winichakul  ixAcknowledgments  xiIntroduction: Toward a Southeast Asian Identity? Schools as Contested Sites of Collective Memory  1Will BrehmPart I: Regional Memory1.  The UNESCO Shared Histories Curriculum: Paradoxes and Possibilities  23Rosalie Metro and Will Brehm2.  Regional Memory in Con­temporary Cambodia: "Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity"  47Will BrehmPart II: National Memory3.  Whose Kingdoms and Whose Settlement? Hegemonic National Memory Inside Thai Textbooks  75Vong-on Phuaphansawat and ­Will Brehm4.  Vietnamese Citizenship in Transition: State Curricula Pre- and Post-Doi Moi  103Bich-Hang DuongPart III: Public Memory5.  Thinking With History in Pursuit of Truth in Myanmar  133Anna Zongollowicz6.  Finding Unity in Diversity: Public Identity Patterns in Lao PDR  153Will Brehm, Thongdeuane Nanthanavone, Somsanit Larvankham, and Yasushi Hirosato7.  Exploring Unity and Diversity in the Histories of Southeast Asia  177Yuto KitamuraAfterword Shigeru Aoyagi  187About the Editors and Contributors  191Index  193

“Mainstream scholarship on the cultivation of social identities in school education often focuses on just national, ethnic, or religious identities. What is noteworthy about Memory in the Mekong is that it examines the fascinating aspect of a unified regional identity in the Mekong subregion, one of the most diverse places on Earth. As a result, this endeavor generates complex insights that will interest not just practitioners and scholars of history and citizenship education but any reader interested in themes of nationhood, belonging, and identities.”—Harvard Educational Review

Will Brehm is an associate professor at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. Yuto Kitamura is a professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo.

• ContentsForeword Thongchai Winichakul  ixAcknowledgments  xiIntroduction: Toward a Southeast Asian Identity? Schools as Contested Sites of Collective Memory  1Will BrehmPart I: Regional Memory1.  The UNESCO Shared Histories Curriculum: Paradoxes and Possibilities  23Rosalie Metro and Will Brehm2.  Regional Memory in Con­temporary Cambodia: "Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity"  47Will BrehmPart II: National Memory3.  Whose Kingdoms and Whose Settlement? Hegemonic National Memory Inside Thai Textbooks  75Vong-on Phuaphansawat and ­Will Brehm4.  Vietnamese Citizenship in Transition: State Curricula Pre- and Post-Doi Moi  103Bich-Hang DuongPart III: Public Memory5.  Thinking With History in Pursuit of Truth in Myanmar  133Anna Zongollowicz6.  Finding Unity in Diversity: Public Identity Patterns in Lao PDR  153Will Brehm, Thongdeuane Nanthanavone, Somsanit Larvankham, and Yasushi Hirosato7.  Exploring Unity and Diversity in the Histories of Southeast Asia  177Yuto KitamuraAfterword Shigeru Aoyagi  187About the Editors and Contributors  191Index  193

“Mainstream scholarship on the cultivation of social identities in school education often focuses on just national, ethnic, or religious identities. What is noteworthy about Memory in the Mekong is that it examines the fascinating aspect of a unified regional identity in the Mekong subregion, one of the most diverse places on Earth. As a result, this endeavor generates complex insights that will interest not just practitioners and scholars of history and citizenship education but any reader interested in themes of nationhood, belonging, and identities.”—Harvard Educational Review

Will Brehm is an associate professor at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. Yuto Kitamura is a professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo.

• ContentsForeword Thongchai Winichakul  ixAcknowledgments  xiIntroduction: Toward a Southeast Asian Identity? Schools as Contested Sites of Collective Memory  1Will BrehmPart I: Regional Memory1.  The UNESCO Shared Histories Curriculum: Paradoxes and Possibilities  23Rosalie Metro and Will Brehm2.  Regional Memory in Con­temporary Cambodia: "Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity"  47Will BrehmPart II: National Memory3.  Whose Kingdoms and Whose Settlement? Hegemonic National Memory Inside Thai Textbooks  75Vong-on Phuaphansawat and ­Will Brehm4.  Vietnamese Citizenship in Transition: State Curricula Pre- and Post-Doi Moi  103Bich-Hang DuongPart III: Public Memory5.  Thinking With History in Pursuit of Truth in Myanmar  133Anna Zongollowicz6.  Finding Unity in Diversity: Public Identity Patterns in Lao PDR  153Will Brehm, Thongdeuane Nanthanavone, Somsanit Larvankham, and Yasushi Hirosato7.  Exploring Unity and Diversity in the Histories of Southeast Asia  177Yuto KitamuraAfterword Shigeru Aoyagi  187About the Editors and Contributors  191Index  193

“Mainstream scholarship on the cultivation of social identities in school education often focuses on just national, ethnic, or religious identities. What is noteworthy about Memory in the Mekong is that it examines the fascinating aspect of a unified regional identity in the Mekong subregion, one of the most diverse places on Earth. As a result, this endeavor generates complex insights that will interest not just practitioners and scholars of history and citizenship education but any reader interested in themes of nationhood, belonging, and identities.”—Harvard Educational Review