The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse

0. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-90-8964-884-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 555 g

Reihe: Asian History

The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ranging from hyper-nationalism to disputes over cultural ownership throughout the region. Those forces, Farish A. Noor argues in this book, have their roots in the region's failure to come to a critical understanding of how current national and cultural identities in the region came about. To remedy that, Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism, and shows how that construct remains a potent aspect of political, economic, and cultural disputes today.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noor, Farish A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, 1. Booking Southeast Asia: The History of an Idea 2. Booking Southeast Asia: And so it begins, with a nightmare 3. The New Language-Game of Modern Colonial Capitalism 4. Raffles' Java as Museum 5. Dressing the Cannibal: John Anderson's Sumatra as Market 6. Brooke, Keppel, Mundy and Marryat's Borneo as 'The Den of Pirates' 7. Crawfurd's Burma as the Torpid 'Land of Tyranny' 8. Bricolage, Power and How a Region Was Discursively Constructed, Appendix, A Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix D, Appendix E, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Farish A. Noor is Professor of Political History at the Faculty of Social Science FOSS, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia UIII. His work has focused on 19th century colonial Southeast Asia, looking at the modalities of racialised colonial-capitalism in the region. His recent works include Peta dan Kekuasaan (Mapping and Power, Lestari Hikmah, 2025), Data-Collecting in 19th Century Colonial Southeast Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and America's Encounters with Southeast Asia 1800-1900 (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).