Performing Power Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia

Performing Power illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legitimized, maintained, negotiated, and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between the colonizer and colonized. Van der Meer's Performing Power explores what seemingly ordinary interactions...

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Autor principal: der Meer, Arnout, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Spelling and Terms
  • Introduction. Performance of Power
  • 1. Setting the Stage: The Javanization of Colonial Authority in the Nineteenth Century
  • 2. "Sweet Was the Dream, Bitter the Awakening" : Contested Implementation of the Ethical Policy, 1901-1913
  • 3. Disrupting the Colonial Performance: The Hormat Circular of 1913 and the National Awakening
  • 4. Contesting Sartorial Hierarchies: From Ethnic Stereotypes to National Dress
  • 5. East Is East, and West Is West: Forging Modern Identities
  • 6. Staging Colonial Modernity: Hegemony, Fairs, and the Indonesian Middle Classes
  • Epilogue. Pawnshops as Stages of the Colonial Performance of Power
  • Notes
  • Bibliography