How exactly does education underpin a regional identity across Southeast Asia? Is it even possible or desirable to establish a common identity across the diverse peoples of Southeast Asia? And how might a regional identity exist alongside national identities, which are also deeply contested within countries?  These are the questions my new co-edited collection, Memory in the Mekong: Regional Identity, Schools, and Politics in Southeast Asia, sets out to answer. The book pulls together over three years of research conducted in Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam.