ISBN:
9780333981672
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (255 pages)
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
306.209598
Keywords:
Political culture
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Knowing Indonesia: Power, Politics and Change -- 1 Knowing Indonesia: The Making of an Orientalist Discourse -- Introduction -- Which Indonesia, whose rationality? -- Archaeology, genealogy, and the making of discourse -- Making an object -- Genealogy -- An archaeology of discourse -- Orientalist discourse and Southeast Asian studies -- Said and Southeast Asia -- A concept of Orientalism -- The corporate/institutional Orient -- America's Orient: social science, expertise, and policy -- Making space for 'Indonesia' -- Colonial dreaming and the invention of 'Indonesia' -- 2 The Study of Indonesian Politics -- General factors in the construction of a discourse of Indonesian politics -- Decolonization, the Cold War, and the United States in Indonesia -- On hegemonic texts -- Colonial discourse analysis and the study of Indonesian politics -- Space, identity, and history in the discourse of Indonesian politics -- Kahin's eternal Indonesia -- Feith's Indonesian mosaic -- Institutions, elites, and political economy as theory in the study of Indonesian politics -- The limits of Indonesian 'political life' -- Popular approaches to the study of Indonesian politics -- Political economy as 'theory' in the discourse of Indonesian politics -- Culture, ethnicity, tradition and identity in the study of Indonesian politics -- Kahin's distorted Indonesia -- Crouch and courtly politics -- Essential and malleable identities -- Robison's discourse of Chinese identity -- On power in the discourse of Indonesian politics -- 3 Imagining Southeast Asia: Power and Knowledge in the Formation of a Southeast Asian Politics Studies Discourse -- A genealogy of Southeast Asia -- Pre-colonial and colonial ideas of 'region'.
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