Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 310)

Thông tin sách: Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 310) (Hardcover, 226 trang) – Brill, 2018. Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh.

This book reveals how everyday experiences of being ‘modern’ (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and change in the transition from colonialism to independence and after in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recover modern times at the intersection of public and private domains, encompassing sex, religion, art, film, literature and urban space. The authors examine the conditions and representations of modernity, as shaped by elites and the governed, by actors, artists, novelists and non-fiction writers. Plural encounters in cities, through spiritual communities, art, high and popular culture saw Southeast Asians fashioning modern times in dialogue with global capitalism, consumer culture and second-wave feminism. Editorial Reviews Review "Located at the crossroads of history, cultural studies, religious studies and anthropology, the collection of papers in Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s offers a notable example of research on the colonial-to-postcolonial transitions in different countries of the region.[...] The attention to detail and the interpretative quality of the contributions, as well as the broad variety of topics and approaches, make Modern Times a stimulating work, highly recommended to anyone interested in issues of social and cultural change in contemporary Southeast Asia."
– Roger Casas, Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 35.3 (2020). About the Author Susie Protschky is Senior Lecturer in History at Monash University, editor of Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-Colonial Indonesia (Amsterdam University Press, 2015), and author of Photographic Subjects: Monarchy, Photography and the Dutch East Indies (Manchester University Press, forthcoming).

Tom van den Berge is Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden. He is the author of H.J. van Mook, 1894-1965: Een vrij en gelukkig Indonesië (THOTH, 2014).