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

0. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-90-8964-884-6
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 165 mm, Gewicht: 530 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.

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)

Noor, Farish A.
Farish A. Noor is Professor of Southeast Asian History at the Faculty of Arts, University Malaya.

"https://www.rsis.edu.sg/profile/farish-badrol-hisham-ahmad-noor/#.VKv5oyvF_s4" target="_blank">Farish A. Noor is Associate Professor for the Contemporary Islam Programme at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and member of the United Nations' Alliance of Civilizations Panel of Global Experts on Religion and Politics in Asia.[-][-]Nieuw boek: Knowledge and Fear of the Unknown:[-]Farish A Noor is Associate Professor at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, where he teaches the history and politics of Southeast Asia.