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Transcript Verlag Transatlantic Cultural Exchange: African American
Book SynopsisFrom Josephine Baker's performances in the 1920s to the 1970s solidarity campaigns for Angela Davis, from Audre Lorde as "mother" of the Afro-German movement in the 1980s to the literary stardom of 1993 Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, Germans have actively engaged with African American women's art and activism throughout the 20th century. The discursive strategies that have shaped the (West) German reactions to African American women's social activism and cultural work are examined in this study, which proposes not only a nuanced understanding of "African Americanizations" as a form of cultural exchange but also sheds new light on the role of African American culture for (West) German society, culture, and national identity.Trade Review"[The book] offers a theoretically and methodologically innovative model for future scholarship. It merits a wide readership." Brian Van Wyck, H-Net Reviews, 3 (2014) Reviewed in: www.caar-web.org, 7, Stella Bolaki American Historical Review, 6 (2014), Timothy L. Schroer
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Transcript Verlag (Post)Colonial Histories: Trauma, Memory and
Book SynopsisThe documentary My heart of Darkness (Sweden 2011) tells the story of a South-African paratrooper returning to Angola: Facing former enemies, he tries to regain mental health and reconciliation. The film marks the stepping-stone for this volume: The contributions examine different facets like the memory-discourse, genre aspects, the use of music, and authentification processes. Several texts discuss these topics in a more general way including other films. Furthermore, some articles are devoted to the historical context, i.e. the Angolan Civil War and the aftermath of this conflict in the cultural sphere.
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V&R Unipress Verwobene Geschichte - Verflochtenes Gedachtnis?:
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V&R unipress Koloniale Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik
Book SynopsisVon einer kolonialen Amnesie kann keine Rede sein!
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Rupa & Co The Men Who Rule India
Book SynopsisThe man who ruled India is a masterly distillation of Philip Mason's two classics, The Founders and The Guardians which were written soon after British withdrawal from the sub continent, when the sight and sound and smells of an area the size of Europe were still fresh in memory.
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Rupa & Co India: From Curzon to Nehru & after
Book SynopsisClassic study, originally published in 1969. Personal experiences, work with Gandhi, Nehru, Indian politics, government.a provocative and interesting memoir, stretching from a Punjab village to the highest echelons of power in New Delhi.
£23.39
Aakar Books Akhtaruzzaman Elias: Beyond the Lived Time of
Book SynopsisThe text critiques the national-liberation paradigm and calls for a shift. It analyzes novels by Akhtaruzzaman Elias and films by Ritwik Ghatak to explore resistance and anti-colonialism as processes against surplus value extraction, emphasizing the need for a new perspective.
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Fagbokforlaget Cultural Mélange in Aesthetic Practices
Book SynopsisThis book discusses cultural mélange in a variety of different textual and non-textual aesthetic practices within literature, theatre, and music. The process of globalisation has left no corner of the world untouched. Although many studies use postcolonial theory to understand its large-scale effects, the contributors to this book show how such theory can be drawn on for productive use also in other contexts, such as the Scandinavian. In doing so, they also rework the well-worn concept of hybridity to one of cultural mélange, creating a lens by which to take a broader view of the phenomenon: from Africa to Poland, from France to Norway, various forms of globalisation processes have accelerated an interpenetration of cultures which takes place on a number of widely different cultural arenas.
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La solución pacífica The Peaceful Solution
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Marcial Pons AURORA DE LA LIBERTAD LA
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Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia, S.A. IMPERIO DE LAS CIRCUNSTANCIAS EL
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Museum Tusculanum Press National Identity Politics and Postcolonial
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£26.09
Aarhus University Press Teaching Post-colonialism & Post-colonial
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NIAS Press Recruit to Revolution: Adventure and Politics
Book SynopsisThis gripping memoir narrates the formative years of the Indonesian nation through the lens of English adventurer John Coast. After years in Japanese POW camps where he first met Indonesians and learned Malay, this young British officer made his way back to Southeast Asia in order to help Indonesian Republicans in their struggle against Dutch rule. In time he became a trusted friend and employee of the new nation. John Coast's life story is entangled with the history of the revolution: blockade-running; broadcasting from the besieged rebel capital; advocating for the Republicans to the press and politicians abroad; and having long discussions with President Sukarno. Later, John Coast and Sukarno's shared love of Balinese music and dance bore fruit in the famous Dancers of Bali tour of the West End and Broadway, which in turn paved the way for Coast's career as a leading international theatrical agent for the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar and Mario Lanza.
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NIAS Press End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia
Book SynopsisAlmost nowhere in eastern Asia did the end of World War II bring peace. Within days, the fragile wartime truce between Nationalists and Communists in China began to fray. Even before Japan's formal surrender, nationalist revolutions were sweeping through much of the region, most notably in Vietnam and Indonesia, seeking to forestall the return of the old colonial order. And for a brief moment, Koreans stood united and on the verge of independence. At the same time in Japan, there was shock and despair at the ruination of empire. The results were momentous. In the short, 100-day period between the incineration of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and the following November when the first frosts of the Cold War began to be felt, important political and military foundations were laid not least the rise of Communist China, the division of Korea, the end of European colonial power, the birth of new, independent nation-states, and the emergence of a new democratic order in Japan. These developments have profoundly influenced the history not just of Asia but also the world. Imparting some of the chaotic uncertainty of the period, this innovative study presents a kaleidoscope of over 300 events, illuminated with expert commentary, photographs, maps and personal accounts.
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NIAS Press Monarchical Manipulation in Cambodia: France, Japan, and the Sihanouk Crusade for Independence: 2018
Book SynopsisOne figure strides across modern Cambodian history – Norodom Sihanouk. From his accession to the throne of Cambodia in 1941 until his extravagant funeral ceremony in 2013, the prince turned `king father’ in later life never dodged controversy. But this is not a biography of Sihanouk; the focus is upon the final decades of the French protectorate, the rise of a counter-elite and winning of Cambodia’s independence. Manipulation of the 1,000-year-old monarchy comes to the heart of this book, as does indigenous resistance, Buddhist activism, French cultural creationism, the rise of radical republicanism, Thai recidivism and wartime Japanese machinations. Carried through into the postwar period, the seeds of Cambodia’s own destruction were being sown in the jungle perimeters, rubber plantations, schools and monkhood, and even in the classrooms of prestigious French institutions. Deeply embedded Khmer cultural conventions and the interplay of charismatic power and patronage are not irrelevant to this discussion, indeed inform us as to the future and even present-day patterns of political behaviour. The skill of the young Sihanouk in navigating between Vichy France, Japanese militarists, republican opportunists, armed rural insurgency and French proconsuls is brought to life by a range of new archival documentation. A book is also a work of premonition as much inquiry, exploring how did a country of such grace and natural bounty come to be associated with the worst excesses of mass murder and genocide experienced in the twentieth century. The long political prelude as exposed in this book makes the now clichéd `tragedy of Cambodian history’ much more comprehensible.
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Leiden University Press The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism
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Amsterdam University Press Postcolonial Netherlands: Sixty-five Years of
Book SynopsisThe Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in the former colonies - Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Entitlement to Dutch citizenship, pre-migration acculturation in the Dutch language and culture as well as a strong rhetorical argument (“We are here because you were there!”) were important assets of the first generation, facilitating its integration into the Dutch society. The current Dutch population counts two million non-Western migrants, and the past decade witnessed heated debates about multiculturalism, the most important ones centered on acknowledgement and inclusion of colonialism and its legacies in the national memorial culture. Postcolonial Netherlands, which elicited much praise but also controversy following the publication of its Dutch edition, is the first scholarly monograph to address these themes in an internationally comparative framework.Trade Review"A highly readable, insightful tour through the complex world of Dutch multiculturalism. The book is arranged thematically, so that fascinating comparisons emerge among the experiences of diverse immigrant groups, enhanced by excursions into the ways that other postcolonial powers (France, England, Portugal), handle their own comparable realities."|Richard Price, the College of William and Mary, author of award-winning books including First-Time, Alabi’s World, The Convict and the Colonel, Travels with Tooy and Rainforest Warriors.|"This engaging, timely study draws upon Oostindie’s decades of intensive research and writing on slavery, colonialism, and their legacy for the Netherlands. He treats unavoidably provocative cultural issues with admirable sensitivity and balance, renders complex identity issues highly accessible, and tests his findings through comparison with selected other European societies."|Allison Blakely, Professor of Modern European and Comparative History, Boston University, author of Blacks in the Dutch World.Table of ContentsTable of Contents - 6 Introduction - 8 Decolonization, migration and the postc olonial bonus - 24 Citizenship: rights, participation, identification - 49 The struggle for recognition: war and the silent migration - 74 The individualization of identity - 102 Imagining Colonialism - 131 Transnationalism: A Turning Tide? - 164 An International Perspective - 189 ‘Postcolonial’ (in the) Netherlands - 216 NOTES - 244 Bibliography - 263 Acknowledgements - 282 index of people, organizations and memorial sit es - 283
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HarperCollins India Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won
Book SynopsisAt various points, they received official support and recognition from the governments of some of these countries. Even the internal dynamics of the Indian National Congress of the time cannot be understood without the revolutionaries, who enjoyed widespread support within the organization.
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Bloomsbury India Humanizing Humanity
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HarperCollins India Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won
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£15.19
HarperCollins India Nationalism
Book SynopsisA profound examination of the impact of nationalism on society and individual identity.
£11.50
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Great Tragedy of India's Partition
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd No Return Address: Partition and Stories of
Book SynopsisBengal as a province was divided several times by its rulers for various reasonsto manage it better, divide its spoils among the conquerors, or to break the spirit of a rebellious and creatively inclined community. But what did this division mean to a Bengali? How did it impact their identity, culture, lives and future generations? How did they take the Partition and the consequent slicing off of their community? Sadly, these are the questions that haunt generations of Bengalistheir memories stowed away in trunks, pieces of documents, dying dialects, photographs or the deepest recesses of their mind. The displacement through Partition brought in alienation, sorrow, longing and a sense of loss in its tow. The resultant rootlessness bred strong emotions.
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd The Seedbed of Pakistan: Cultural Conflicts,
Book SynopsisTo bring them around, the Congress made some initial concessions which legitimised a distinct Muslim interest in Indian politics, while it later refused to substantively engage with this interest. Resultantly, it charted its own course through the âSimla Deputationâ, the All-India Muslim League and, finally, the idea of Pakistan.
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Amsterdam University Press The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in
Book SynopsisDuring the 24-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor, thousands of people died, or were killed, in circumstances that did not allow the required death rituals to be performed. Since the nation’s independence, families and communities have invested considerable time, effort and resources in fulfilling their obligations to the dead. These obligations are imbued with urgency because the dead are ascribed agency and can play a benevolent or malevolent role in the lives of the living. These grassroots initiatives run, sometimes critically, in parallel with official programs that seek to transform particular dead bodies into public symbols of heroism, sacrifice and nationhood. The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste focuses on the dynamic interplay between the potent presence of the dead in everyday life and their symbolic usefulness to the state. It underlines how the dead shape relationships amongst families, communities and the nation-state, and open an important window into — are in fact pivotal to — processes of state and nation formation.Trade Review"It is hard to find flaws in this collection. Admirably meeting the attributes of 'thick ethnography' as set down by Traube in her preface, not only does this work advance our understanding of Timor-Leste’s travails today, but deservedly takes its place in the broader anthropological literature around 'ancestorship,' martyrdom, and 'bad death.'"- Geoffrey C. Gunn, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 95, No. 2Table of ContentsPreface. (Elizabeth Traube) Introduction: Martyrs, Ancestors and Heroes: The Multiple Lives of Dead Bodies in Independent Timor-Leste. (Lia Kent and Rui Graca Feijo) PART I: Ancestors, Martyrs and Heroes Chapter 1. Ancestors and Martyrs in Timor-Leste. (Susana de Matos Viegas) Chapter 2. Remembering the Martyrs of National Liberation in Timor-Leste. (Michael Leach) PART II: The Dead in Everyday Life Chapter 3. Spirits Live Among Us: Mythology, the Hero's Journey and the Supernatural World in a Community in Atauro. (Alessandro Boarccaech) Chapter 4. 'Sempre la'o ho ita': Ancestral Omnipotence and the Protection of the Living in Timor-Leste. (Bronwyn Winch) Chapter 5. Unfulfilled Peace: Death and the Limits of Liberalism in Timor-Leste. (Damian Grenfell) Chapter 6. The Politics of Loss and Restoration: Massive Bad Death in the Oecussi Highlands. (Victoria K. Sakti) Chapter 7. Death Across the Border and the Prospects of Improved People to People Relationships. (Andrey Damaledo) Chapter 8. Working for the Living and the Dead: Challenges Associated with Personal Identification from Skeletal Remains in Timor-Leste. (Soren Blau) PART III: The Dead and the Nation-State Chapter 9. Remembering the Dead in Post-Independence Timor-Leste: Victims or Martyrs? (Amy Rothschild) Chapter 10. Gender, Agency and the (In)Visibility of the Dead and the Wounded. (Henri Myrttinen) Chapter 11. On the Politics of Memory: Cult of Martyrs, Contested Memories and Social Status. (Rui Graca Feijo) Chapter 12. Gathering the Dead, Imagining the State? Examining the Work of Commissions for the Recovery of Human Remains. (Lia Kent) Chapter 13. Selling Names: The 'Material Dimension' of State Recognition of Martyrs in Timor-Leste. (Kate Roll) Index
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Amsterdam University Press Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands:
Book SynopsisThis book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell their stories and who do not? In other words: who has a voice, and who is silenced? As such, these conflicts represent a wider tendency in cultural theory and activism to use voice as a metaphor for empowerment and silence as voice’s negative counterpart, signifying powerlessness. And yet, there are voices that do not liberate us from, but rather subject us to power. Meanwhile, silence can be powerful: it can protect, disrupt and reconfigure. Throughout this book, it will become clear how voice and silence function not as each other’s opposites, but as each other’s continuation, and that postcolonial memory is articulated through the interplay of meaningful voices and meaningful silences.Table of ContentsTable of contents Acknowledgments Introduction Postcolonial memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful voices; meaningful silences Chapter one Two cases of Moluccan identity articulation: Deceptive voices and empowering silences in individual and collective self-representation Chapter two The case of the train hijackings: Appropriated voices and protective silences in media representation Chapter three The case of Jan Pieterszoon Coen’s statue: Repressive voices and resistant silences in public space Chapter four The case of De Grauwe Eeuw: Disruptive voices and silences in social activism Conclusion Beyond logocentrism Epilogue “East Indian deafness” Works cited Index
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Amsterdam University Press Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence:
Book SynopsisFrom a much neglected Portuguese colony to independence, Timor-Leste travelled a belated, long and troubled journey that included a 24-year Indonesian occupation. A classic process of European decolonization (1974–1975) was followed by a nationalist struggle against “Third World Colonialism” (1975–1999), and a final phase under the direct aegis of the United Nations (1999–2002). More than a direct relation between coloniser and colonised, this turbulent process involved the participation of many different actors scattered around the world. The “Timor Issue” brought to the scene a martyred people’s determination, the diplomacy of several nations (friends or foes), the involvement of the United Nations, and the activism of solidarity networks. This collection adopts a transnational approach that highlights the complexity of Timor-Leste’s road to independence.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on the Name of the Country Notes on Contributors List of Figures INTRODUCTION Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence: Outline for an Analytical Framework (Zélia Pereira & Rui Graça Feijó) PART ONE - BEFORE THE PORTUGUESE DECOLONISATION 1.While the Winds of Change Gently Blow. Timor-Leste before the Onset of the Portuguese Decolonisation, 1945–1974 (Rui Graça Feijó) 2. Elusive Colonialism in the Age of Bandung: Portugal, Timor-Leste and Indonesia, c.1947–1974 (Pedro Aires Oliveira) 3. An “Undigestible Lump:” Timor-Leste and the Politics of Self-determination (Brad Simpson) PART TWO - THE PORTUGUESE REVOLUTION ARRIVES IN TIMOR-LESTE 1. Nations of Intent: Competing Ideological Views of Nationalism in Timor-Leste, 1974–1999 (Michael Leach) 2. Looking for a “Honourable Political Solution:” the Comissão Nacional de Descolonização and the Fate of Timor-Leste, 1974–1976 (Zélia Pereira) 3. “Canções Revolucionárias:” Rhetoric, Hermeneutic and Ideology Critique (Martinho G. da Silva Gusmão) PART THREE - REACTION TO THE INDONESIAN INVASION OF TIMOR-LESTE 1. “Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t:” Portugal, the UN and the Timor-Leste Issue (Zélia Pereira) 2. “Reduce the Pressure on the Indonesians:” Australian Timor Policy at the UN, 1975–1982 (Peter Job) 2. “Our Interest Is Minimal, but….” Britain and the Indonesian Invasion of Timor-Leste, 1975–1976 (Norrie MacQueen) PART FOUR - RESISTING THE INDONESIAN ANNEXATION OF TIMOR-LESTE 1. Return to Fronteira Norte: Rebuilding Resistance in Timor-Leste Western Districts, 1990–1995 (Edith Bowles) 2. “I Follow the Screaming.” The Timorese Catholic Church and the Struggle for Independence (Maria José Garrido) 3. Walking a Tightrope between the Army and the Church. Jesuit Relief during the Indonesian Occupation of Timor-Leste, 1975–1999 (Pocut Hanifah) 4. The Indonesian Genocide in Timor-Leste: Law, Politics, History (Clinton Fernandes) Index
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Amsterdam University Press Beyond the Pale: Dutch Extreme Violence in the
Book SynopsisDutch Edition/Nederlandse editie: Over de grens On 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender that also brought an end to the Second World War in Asia, Indonesia declared its independence. The declaration was not recognized by the Netherlands, which resorted to force in its attempt to take control of the inevitable process of decolonization. This led to four years of difficult negotiations and bitter warfare. In 2005, the Dutch government declared that the Netherlands should never have waged the war. The government’s 1969 position on the violence used by the Dutch armed forces during the war remained unchanged, however: although there had been ‘excesses’, on the whole the armed forces had behaved ‘correctly’. As the indications of Dutch extreme violence mounted, this official position proved increasingly difficult to maintain. In 2016, the Dutch government therefore decided to fund a broad study on the dynamics of the violence. The most important conclusions of that research programme are summarized in this book. The authors show that the Dutch armed forces used extreme violence on a structural basis, and that this was concealed both at the time and for many years after the war by the Dutch government and by society more broadly. All of this – like the entire colonial history – is at odds with the rose-tinted self-image of the Netherlands.Table of Contents1. Introduction 1 Background, guiding principles and methodology Gert Oostindie 2 The Netherlands and Indonesia 1945-1949. The political-historical context Gert Oostindie 3 The war in Indonesia 1945-1949. The military-historical context Gert Oostindie and Rémy Limpach Interim conclusions 2. Intermezzo The human dimension. The search for stories about the Indonesian War of Independence Eveline Buchheim, Fridus Steijlen, Stephanie Welvaart i i i. Research results 1 ‘Hatred of foreign elements and their “accomplices”’ Extreme violence in the first phase of the Indonesian Revolution (17 August 1945 to 31 March 1946) Esther Captain and Onno Sinke 2 Revolutionary worlds. Legitimacy, violence and loyalty during the Indonesian War of Independence Roel Frakking and Martijn Eickhoff 3 ‘Information costs lives.’ The intelligence war for Indonesia, 1945-1949 Rémy Limpach 4 The myth of the ‘Dutch Method’. Heavy weapons in the Indonesian War of Independence Azarja Harmanny 5 The law as a weapon. The actions of the Dutch judiciary during the Indonesian War of Independence Esther Zwinkels 6 Silence, information and deception in the Indonesian War of Independence Remco Raben and Peter Romijn 7 Silence as a strategy. International visions of the Indonesian War of Independence Jeroen Kemperman 8 Beyond colonial guilt ranking. Dutch, British and French extreme violence in comparative perspective, 1945-1962 Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis 9 A guilty conscience. The painful processing of the Indonesian War of Independence in the Netherlands Gert Oostindie and Meindert van der Kaaij 4. Closing remarks Conclusions 5. Epilogue Dealing with the legacies of a violent past Hilmar Farid Notes Abbreviations Further reading Acknowledgements About the authors Index
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Amsterdam University Press Revolutionary Worlds: Local Perspectives and
Book SynopsisRevolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians, fighters, farmers and officials experienced and shaped the often volatile period between 1945 and 1950. The book focuses on different ideas of independence, survival strategies, mobilization, minorities, contestation of authority and the use of force against the backdrop of Indonesian and Dutch authorities’ efforts to gain or maintain control. Bringing together two national historiographical traditions which have long remained largely separate, Revolutionary Worlds is the result of a collaboration between the Indonesian research project Proklamasi Kemerdekaan, Revolusi dan Perang di Indonesia ('Proclamation of Independence, Revolution and War in Indonesia', Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta) and the Dutch research group of the Regional Studies project, under the umbrella of the research programme Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950. The authors of this book – Taufik Ahmad, Galuh Ambar Sasi, Maarten van der Bent, Martijn Eickhoff, Farabi Fakih, Roel Frakking, Apriani Harahap, Anne-Lot Hoek, Sarkawi B. Husain, Julianto Ibrahim, Gerry van Klinken, Erniwati, Mawardi Umar, Anne van der Veer, Abdul Wahid, Tri Wahyuning M. Irsyam, and Muhammad Yuanda Zara – work with various universities and research institutes in Indonesia and the Netherlands.
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Amsterdam University Press A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the
Book SynopsisAs a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography. A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age looks at the development of photography from the beginning and traces its uses in Indonesia from its invention to the present day. The Dutch colonial government first brought the medium to the East Indies in the 1840s and immediately recognized its potential in serving the colonial apparatus. As the country grew and changed, so too did the medium. Photography was not only an essential tool of colonialism, but it also became part of the movement for independence, a voice for reformasi, an agent for advocating democracy, and is now available to anyone with a phone. This book gathers essays by leading artists, scholars, and curators from around the world who have worked with photography in Indonesia and have traced the evolution of the medium from its inception to the present day, addressing the impact of photography on colonialism, independence, and democratization.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Invention of Photography, the Nederlands, and the Dutch East Indies Journeys Completed and Journeys to Come in Indonesian Photography Portraits of Power The Dance Photographs of Walter Spies and Claire Holt: A Biographical Study Midcentury European Modernism and the March Towards Independence: Gotthard Schuh, Cas Oorthuys, Niels Douwes Dekker, and Henri Cartier-Bresson A Short History of IPPHOS Art Photography in Indonesia: J.M. Arastatch Ro’is, Tirsno Suardjo, and Zenith Magazine Reflections on Reformasi Photography (from the Vantage Point of the 2014 Elections) Journalistic Circus: A Look at Photojournalism in Indonesia and the History of the Antara Gallery of Photojournalism New Media Culture Development of Photographic Education in Indonesia MES 56: Souvenirs from the Past Hybrid Practices of the MES 56 Photography Collective Outsiders On Silence, Seeking, and Speaking: Meditations on Identity Through My Family Albums A City on the Move: Bandung Today Urban Parallax: Jakarta Street Photography on Instagram A Personal Note: The Ground Beneath My Feet
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The Chinese University Press Hong Kong's Colonial Legacy: A Hong Kong
Book SynopsisAfter ruling Hong Kong for 155 years, what did the British leave behind when they withdrew at midnight on 30 June 1997? C. K. Lau answers this question for the lay reader. Whether you are a long-time resident or merely a newcomer to the territory, Hong Kong's colonial legacy promises to deepen your understanding of this Pearl of the Orient. Questions this book tackles include: What is the attitude of Hong Kong Chinese towards British rule and the resumption of Chinese sovereignty? Why have most of them failed to master English despite a century and a half of colonial rule? What is the future of the common law after 1997? ‧What do Hong Kong's leaders mean by "executive-led government"? What is Hong Kong's recipe for economic success? What is the future of press freedom in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region?
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Hong Kong University Press Crisis and Transformation in China′s Hong Kong
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City University of Hong Kong Press Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology
Book SynopsisUsing the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948–1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisation of British Malaya, begging the question: if a late colonial state was subjective, then how did it claim a sufficiently objective mantle to rule and how did ideological techniques enable this?
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Central European University Press Memory Crash: Politics of History in and Around
Book SynopsisThis account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020. Georgiy Kasianov details practices relating to history and memory by a variety of actors, including state institutions, non-governmental organizations, political parties, historians, and local governments. He identifies the main political purposes of these practices in the construction of nation and identity, struggles for power, warfare, and international relations. Kasianov considers the Ukrainian case in the context of a global increase in the politics of history and memory, with particular emphasis on a distinctive East-European variety. He pays special attention to the use and abuse of history in relations between Ukraine, Russia, and Poland.Trade Review"Mit der vorliegenden Monographie zur ukrainischen Geschichtspolitik ist Kasianov eine Studie gelungen, die noch lange als Standardwerk gelten dürfte und sich hervorragend in den Forschungsstand zu anderen osteuropäischen Staaten einfügt. Vor dem Hintergrund des russischen Krieges gegen die Ukraine ist es eine bittere Ironie, dass dieses Buch sich wie ein Resümee der ukrainischen kollektiven Erinnerung seit dem Ende des Staatssozialismus liest." http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-117069 -- Ekaterina Makhotina * H-Soz-Kult *"Kasianov’s nuanced and impartial chronicle of the politics of history in Ukraine considers two competing versions of that country’s national history: a 'Soviet nostalgic' one that stressed continuity with the Soviet period and a nationalist one that emphasized Ukraine’s suffering at the hands of the Soviet government." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2022-04-19/memory-crash-politics-history-and-around-ukraine-1980s-2010s -- Maria Lipman * Foreign Affairs *"Memory Crash was published in Ukrainian in 2018 and appeared in a well-received Russian edition the following year. The text was updated before its publication in English just weeks before the invasion in February 2022. It offers a snapshot of the scholarly debate taken moments before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Students of historical politics examine ‘the use and abuse of the past for immediate political goals.’ Kasianov has studied this phenomenon over decades and across Europe. The reference to ‘impartiality’ is characteristic. ‘The historian’s business requires time away from the noise’, as he puts it in Memory Crash. That is how any larger perspective is won and his book begins by placing Ukraine’s historical politics in a European context. Read this book as testimony to decades spent working for a tough-minded but sophisticated view of the past, in the interests of a more tolerant and pluralist future." http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/116/forbidden-topics-long-shadows -- Horatio Morpurgo * Review 31 *"Eine zu starke Fixierung auf die Vergangenheit könne zukünftige Fortschritte in seinem Land behindern, so der ukrainische Historiker Georgiy Kasianov. Mit seinem Buch Memory Crash präsentiert er die erste umfangreiche und empiriegesättigte Studie über ukrainische Erinnerungskultur(en) und ihre Akteure. Kasianovs Expertise und seine umfangreiche kritische Analyse ukrainischer Erinnerungskulturen auf staatlicher und zivilgesellschaftlicher Ebene, wie sie vorher noch nie da war, machen das Buch zu einem Meilenstein im Feld der Memory Studies." https://te.ma/art/8u8vjf/kasianov-ukraine-history-memory-crash/ -- Hera Shokohi * te.ma *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION PART I: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS Chapter 1. Notions and Definitions Historical memory. Historical politics. History and memory. Basic definitions. Chapter 2. Contexts On stereotypes. “Western Europe.” “Eastern Europe.” Post-Soviet space. PART II: ACTORS Chapter 3. State Institutions President. Parliament. Government. National Bank of Ukraine. Ukrposhta. Judicial bodies. Security Service. Ukrainian Institute of National Memory. Local authorities and self-government bodies. Archives and museums. Chapter 4. Nongovernmental Organizations Political parties. Civil organizations. Mass media and web-based communities. Chapter 5. Historians Communists to nationalists. Roles of historians. PART III: PRACTICES Chapter 6. Historical Politics: An Overview On the nationalization of the past. Sovereignization. Nationalization. Chapter 7. Spaces of Memory Lenin, Bandera, and others. “Battle of Kruty”: victims and heroes. The Holodomor Territory. Genocides at the edge. Memorial laws. Chapter 8. Historical Politics: Beyond Borders Ukraine–Poland: “thorny issues.” Ukraine–Russia: “fraternal rivalry.” GENERAL REMARKS
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NUS Press Writing History in America’s Shadow: Japan, the Philippines, and the Question of Pan-Asianism: Volume 20
Book SynopsisBoth the Japanese and Filipino people experienced a re-writing of their national histories upon being defeated by the United States: the Philippines after 1902 and Japan after 1945. This re-writing was conducted in order to justify and explain US rule and its ideology of modernisation and democracy. These new histories portrayed the immediate past as the dark ages: the Spanish colonial period for the Philippines and Japan's wartime totalitarianism and militarism. What kind of dilemmas and contradictions did Filipino and Japanese historians and intellectuals embrace by accepting the US re-writing of their national histories? Did Japanese Filipino and Japanese historians interact at all, under the US hegemony? The idea of America's Shadow is meant to shed a light on areas of darkness in both Japanese and Philippine historiographies and understanding of their region.Through an examination of the commonalities, differences and interactions of Japanese and Filipino histories, ideas of history, modernisation theory, and area studies, Serizawa makes an important contribution to sorting through the tangled histories of Asia in the complicated matrix of colonial, wartime and Cold War contexts.Trade Review“An important read for scholars of Japanese and Southeast Asian Studies... intended to demonstrate that despite Japan’s Pan-Asian discourse, American knowledge and power has defined Japanese and Filipino history writing since the early twentieth century.” * The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *“Writing History in America’s Shadow is especially adroit at demonstrating the underlying legacies of Orientalism and imperialism on US area studies, including Japanese studies and Southeast Asian studies. . . . [This book] is an astute meditation on history and politics, modest and at times disjointed in its historical scope but ambitious in its historiographical intervention.” * Pacific Affairs *“Employing almost ten years’ worth of archival research and interviews, Serizawa’s book is commendable for its documentation of the individual histories of numerous Japanese scholars and his explanation of the political context behind their intellectual works, which were for either propaganda or academic use. Many of those included in this book are understudied, which gives Serizawa the leverage on the selection of these authors.” * Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints *
£23.21
NUS Press Central Banking as State Building: Policymakers
Book SynopsisFrom its creation in 1949 until the 1960s, the Central Bank of the Philippines dominated industrial policy by means of exchange controls, becoming a symbol of nationalism for a newly independent state. The pre-war Philippine National Bank was closely linked to the colonial administration and plagued by corruption scandals. As the country moved toward independence, ambitious young politicians, colonial bureaucrats, and private sector professionals concluded that economic decolonization required a new bank at the heart of the country’s finances in order to break away from the individuals and institutions that dominated the colonial economy.Positioning this bank within broader political structures, Yusuke Takagi concludes that the Filipino policy makers behind the Central Bank worked not for vested interests associated with colonial or neo-colonial rule but for structural reform based on particular policy ideas.
£27.95
ISEAS The Straits Philosophical Society & Colonial
Book SynopsisFounded in Singapore in 1893, the Straits Philosophical Society was a society for the "critical discussion of questions in Philosophy, History, Theology, Literature, Science and Art". Its membership was restricted to graduates of British and European universities, fellows of British or European learned societies and those with "distinguished merit in the opinion of the Society in any branch of knowledge". Its closed-door meetings were an important gathering place for the educated elite of the colony, comprising colonial civil servants, soldiers, missionaries, businessmen, as well as prominent Straits Chinese members. Notable members included the botanist Henry Ridley, the missionary W.G. Shellabear and Straits Chinese reformers like Lim Boon Keng and Tan Teck Soon.Throughout its years of operation, the Society left behind a collection of papers presented by its members, the vast majority of which conformed to the Society's founding rule that its geographical position should influence its work. This produced a large corpus of literature on colonial Malaya which provides important insights into the logic and dynamics of colonial thought in the period before the First World War. In reproducing a collection of these papers this volume highlights the role of the Society in the development of ideas of race, Malayness, colonial modernization, urban government and debates over the political and socio-economic future of the colony.By republishing these papers, The Straits Philosophical Society & Colonial Elites in Malaya seeks to contribute to the intellectual history of colonial and post-colonial Malaysia and Singapore, and to expand our understanding of the ways in which colonial thought has shaped governing systems of the past and present.
£39.95
NUS Press Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the
Book SynopsisAfter independence in 1957, the Malay monarchy was compelled to embrace Westminster-style constitutional monarchy, under which the role of the monarch is symbolic and affairs of the nation are run by Parliament and the executive branch. Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the Socio-Political Development of Malay Kingship, traces the history of the Malay rulers from the late colonial period to the first decade of the 21st century, considering the implications of the decline of the Malay rulers under colonial rule, the role of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya in defining postwar Malay identity. A key element of that identity was the relation between the Malays and their Rulers, and UMNO - the United Malays National Organisation - positioned itself the ""official"" voice of the Malays and the Rulers. The postwar settlement underwent a significant change after the shocking outcome of the March 2008 General Election weakened UMNO's hold on power. Subsequently, the Malay Rulers have ""reinvented"" themselves as active players in the affairs of the nation and have recovered some of their traditional rights. This book describes socio-political developments since the departure of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad have that worked in favor of a royal resurgence, and shows how the rulers have become a power to be reckoned with.
£31.55
