Conclusion

Abstract

As mentioned at the beginning, the ways vulnerability and precariousness play out across Southeast Asia are not readily understood or measurable. However, by focusing on the human and relational dimensions of insecurities in Southeast Asia, the editors hope the reader has been given an interior and localized perspective on a manifold issue. Glimpsing between the strata at the largely hidden characteristics of human insecurities across Southeast Asia lends immediacy to the real consequences for the lives intersected. The volume’s contributions highlighted the multiple ways in which human insecurities are very much part of the daily lived experience of many who call the region home; inhabiting its many spaces and places. This is an unsettling human moiré patterned by a range of often contradictory, unacknowledged and overlapping local, national, regional and global interests, forces and factors.