Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 165 mm, Gewicht: 530 g
Reihe: Asian History
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 165 mm, Gewicht: 530 g
Reihe: Asian History
ISBN: 978-90-8964-884-6
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
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.
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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