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The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia
Presents a new approach to heritage formation in Asia, conveying the power of the material remains of the past.
Colonial Spectacles
Dutch colonial presentations at the world exhibitions in the period 1880-1931 served to legitimize the Dutch imperialist project and highlight the problem of Dutch identity and the Netherlands' place in the world. At these exhibitions, the Netherlands showed off its colonies by erecting models of schools, sugar-factories, bridges, and railways exhibits, which were meant to give proof of the good works of modern colonial administration and enterprise. Not only were there displays of ethnographic objects, life-size temples and villages inhabited by authentic Javanese and Sumatrans were brought to Europe specifically for these expositions. Their presence took the viewer into an "Other" world that provided an "immediacy" for visitors to the exhibition. While these colonial spectacles helped legitimize Dutch imperialism project, they also provided lenses for understanding the colonial world as it was constructed according to the prevailing evolutionist worldview at the time.
De Geschiedenis Van De Politie in Nederlands-Indi
Dit boek beschrijft de geschiedenis van de koloniale politie in Nederlands-Indië tussen 1897 en 1942. Met als belangrijkste vraag: wat was er koloniaal aan koloniale politie? Centraal staan daarbij kwesties als de betekenis van de politie voor de koloniale staat en de rol van het geweld dat zij gebruikte. De moderne koloniale politie in Nederlands-Indië was het product van angst en zorg. De angst van de Europeanen voor de inheemse wereld in beweging; de zorg voor het zedelijk welzijn van de plaatselijke bevolking. De politie was niet alleen bedoeld voor controle en repressie, maar ook voor een koloniaal beschavingsoffensief. In de besluitvorming over het politieapparaat hadden Indonesiërs intussen geen deel. In de uitvoering wel: aan het begin van de jaren dertig werd de koloniale politie voor 93 procent bemand door inheems personeel.
Koloniale inspiratie
Rondom 1900 brachten de wereldtentoonstellingen Frankrijk, Nederland en Nederlands-Indië letterlijk dichter bij elkaar. Terwijl Frankrijk uitblonk in het organiseren van deze prestigieuze wedstrijden in de vooruitgang, maakte Nederland hier goede sier met zijn koloniën. Deze vertoningen van handelswaar, etnografische voorwerpen, tempels en complete Javaanse dorpen inclusief bewoners waren een groot succes in Frankrijk. Ze wakkerden vooral een (welhaast typisch Frans) besef aan van de kunstzinnige inheemse cultuur van Nederlands-Indië. Beroemd is le village javanais, een uiterst populaire Nederlandse inzending op de Exposition Universelle van 1889, waar tussen de vele bezoekers met enige r...
Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam
A complex examination of "criminality" and "the criminal" as constructs and active presences in Southeast Asia. Contributors explore such themes as surveillance, incarceration, law and custom, secrecy, and corruption. A fascinating study of power and subversion in the modern postcolonial nation-state. Contributors include Daniel S. Lev, Henk M. J. Maier, Rudolf Mrazek, James T. Siegel, and others.
State of Authority
A major realignment is taking place in the way we understand the state in Indonesia. New studies on local politics, ethnicity, the democratic transition, corruption, Islam, popular culture, and other areas hint at novel concepts of the state, though often without fully articulating them. This book captures several dimensions of this shift. One reason for the new thinking is a fresh wind that has altered state studies generally. People are posing new kinds of questions about the state and developing new methodologies to answer them. Another reason for this shift is that Indonesia itself has changed, probably more than most people recognize. It looks more democratic, but also more chaotic and ...
Images of the Tropics
Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscape art. Susie Protschky contends that visual representations of nature and landscape were core elements of how Europeans understood the tropics, justified their territorial claims in the region, and understood their place both in imperial Europe and in colonized Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book thus makes a significant contribution to studies of empire, art and environment, as well as to histories of Indonesia and Europe. Surveying a rich visual culture developed over a period of some 350 years of Dutch colonial engagement with Indonesia Sus...
Violence as Usual
Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. Unearthing this culture of normalized violence in a settler colony, Violence as Usual uncovers the workings of a powerful state that was built in an improvised fashion by low-level state representatives. Marie A. Muschalek's fascinating portrayal of the daily deeds of African and German men enrolled in the colonial police force called the Landespolizei is a historical anthropology of police practice and the normalization of imperial power. Replete with anecdotes of everyday experiences both of the policemen and of ...
Sites, Bodies and Stories
Sites, Bodies and Stories examines the intimate links between history and heritage as they have developed in postcolonial Indonesia. Sites discussed in the book include Borobudur in Central Java, a village in Flores built around megalithic formations, and ancestral houses in Alor. Bodies refers to legacies of physical anthropology, exhibition practices and Hollywood movies. The Stories are accounts of the Mambesak movement in Papua, the inclusion of wayang puppetry in UNESCO s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and subaltern history as written by the people of Blambangan in their search for national heroes. Throughout the book, citizenship entitlement figures as a leitmoti...
