ISBN:
978-90-04-28069-4
,
978-90-04-28072-4/e-book
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 351 S.
Series Statement:
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 295
DDC:
307.7609598
Keywords:
Indonesien Stadt
;
Modernisierung
;
Dekolonisation
;
Urbanisation
;
Nationalismus
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
"Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of the cities in Indonesia between 1920 and 1960. The contributions present a case for asserting that Indonesian cities were not merely the backdrop to processes of modernization and rising nationalism, but formed a causal factor. Modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. The various chapters deal with such innovations as the provision of medical treatments, fresh water and sanitation, the implementation of town planning and housing designs, and policies for coping with increased motorized traffic and industrialization. The contributors share a broad critique of the economic and political dimensions of colonialism, but remain alert to the agency of colonial subjects who respond, often critically, to a European modernity"
Description / Table of Contents:
Modernization of the Indonesian city, 1920-1960 -- Call for doctors! Uneven medical provision and the modernization of state health care during the decolonization of Indonesia, 1930s-1950s -- (Post)colonial pipes: urban water supply in colonial and contemporary Jakarta -- Netherlands Indies town planning: an agent of modernization (1905-1957) -- Partial accommodation -- Ruckert and Hoesni Thamrin: bureaucrat and politician in colonial kampong improvement -- Kotabaru and the housing estate as bulwark against the indigenization of colonial Java -- Public housing in Semarang and the modernization of kampongs, 1930-1960 -- From autonomous village to 'informal slum': kampong development and state control in Bandung (1930-1960) -- Breaking the boundaries: the Uniekampong and modernization of dock labour in Tanjung Priok, Batavia (1917-1949) -- Selective appropriation -- Moving at a different velocity: the modernization of transportation and social differentiation in Surabaya in the 1920s -- The two alun-alun of Malang (1930-1960) -- The Indonesianization of the symbols of modernity in Plaju (Palembang), 1930s-1960s -- Chinese cemeteries as a symbol of sacred space: control, conflict, and negotiation in Surabaya
Note:
"The origin of this book goes back to the conference on 'The decolonization of the Indonesian city in (Asian and African) comparative perspective', held in Leiden, from 26 to 28 April 2006"
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