Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia - State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines

Examining two state-sponsored history writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contexts of the two projects and, more importantly, provides a nuanced characterization of the relationship between embodiments of power and knowledge.

List of contents

List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: power and knowledge

1 Indonesia and the Philippines: a contextual comparison

2 Genesis of Tadhana project

3 Tadhana in political and historiographic contexts

4 The making of Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI)

5 SNI: contents and contexts

6 The calculus of power–knowledge relations

Conclusion
Glossary
Index

About the author

Rommel A. Curaming is Senior Assistant Professor at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). His areas of research include comparative historiography, history and memory of violence, historical theory, and knowledge politics in Southeast Asia, mainly Indonesia and the Philippines.

Summary

Examining two state-sponsored history writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contexts of the two projects and, more importantly, provides a nuanced characterization of the relationship between embodiments of power and knowledge.

Product details

• Authors: Rommel Curaming, Rommel (University of Brunei Darussalam Curaming
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032087405
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3208740-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Rethinking Southeast Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, South East Asia, Politics & government, Politics and government, Asian History, Society and culture: general, Regional Geography