Read more
Informationen zum Autor Abidin Kusno is Associate Professor at the Institute of Asian Research and Faculty Associate of the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory at the University of British Columbia, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Asian Urbanism and Culture. He is the author of Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space, and Political Cultures in Indonesia. Klappentext A study of post-Suharto Indonesia that focuses on the role of architecture and urban space in defining social changes, as well the role that such spaces play in forming social and political identities, particularly social memories. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the connections between the urban built environment (primarily in Jakarta) and political consciousness in Indonesia during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Governmentality 1. Whither Nationalist Urbanism? Public Life in Governor Sutiyoso's Jakarta 25 2. The Regime, the Busway, and the Construction of Urban Subjects in an Indonesian Metropolis 49 3. "Back to the City": Urban Architecture in the New Indonesia 71 Remembering and Forgetting 4. Glodok on Our Minds: Chinese Culture and the Forgetting of the May Riots 101 5. The Afterlife of the Empire Style, Indische Architectuur, and Art Deco 125 Reminiscences 6. Colonial Cities in Motion: Urban Symbolism and Popular Radicalism 155 7. Urban Pedagogy: The Appearance of Order and Normality in Late Colonial Java, 1926–42 182 Mental Nebulae 8. "The Reality of One-Which-Is-Two": Java's Reception of Global Islam 203 9. Guardian of Memories: The Gardu in Urban Java 223 Notes 279 Bibliography 313 Index 327
