Kusno The Appearances of Memory

Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9257-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 350 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

An exploration of the connections between the urban built environment (primarily in Jakarta) and political consciousness in Indonesia during the colonial and postcolonial eras.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kusno, Abidin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

Governmentality

1. Whither Nationalist Urbanism? Public Life in Governor Sutiyoso's Jakarta 25

2. The Regime, the Busway, and the Construction of Urban Subjects in an Indonesian Metropolis 49

3. "Back to the City": Urban Architecture in the New Indonesia 71

Remembering and Forgetting

4. Glodok on Our Minds: Chinese Culture and the Forgetting of the May Riots 101

5. The Afterlife of the Empire Style, Indische Architectuur, and Art Deco 125

Reminiscences

6. Colonial Cities in Motion: Urban Symbolism and Popular Radicalism 155

7. Urban Pedagogy: The Appearance of Order and Normality in Late Colonial Java, 1926–42 182

Mental Nebulae

8. "The Reality of One-Which-Is-Two": Java's Reception of Global Islam 203

9. Guardian of Memories: The Gardu in Urban Java 223

Notes 279

Bibliography 313

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Abidin Kusno is Associate Professor at the Institute of Asian Research and Faculty Associate of the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory at the University of British Columbia, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Asian Urbanism and Culture. He is the author of Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space, and Political Cultures in Indonesia.