Abidin Kusno

The Appearances of Memory

Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346555
• ISBN-10: 0822346559
• Artikelnr.: 29924112

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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