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- Author: Farish A Noor
- Publisher: Buku Fixi
- Year: 2021
- Pages: 391
- ISBN-10: 9672328613
- ISBN-13: 9789672328612
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, John Crawfurd and Anna Leonowens were some of those who came from Europe or the United States to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century - and then wrote about what they saw.
Their writings deserve to be read now for what they truly were: Not objective accounts of a Southeast Asia frozen in imperial time but rather as culturally myopic and perspectivist works that betray the subject-positions of the authors themselves. Reading them would allow us to write the history of the East-West encounter through critical lenses that demonstrate the workings of power-knowledge in the elaborate war-economy of racialised colonial-capitalism.
Many of the tropes used by these colonial-era scholars and travellers, such as the indolence or savagery of the native population, are still very much in use today - which means we still live in the long shadow of the 19th century.
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- Author: Farish A Noor
- Publisher: Buku Fixi
- Year: 2021
- Pages: 391
- ISBN-10: 9672328613
- ISBN-13: 9789672328612
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, John Crawfurd and Anna Leonowens were some of those who came from Europe or the United States to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century - and then wrote about what they saw.
Their writings deserve to be read now for what they truly were: Not objective accounts of a Southeast Asia frozen in imperial time but rather as culturally myopic and perspectivist works that betray the subject-positions of the authors themselves. Reading them would allow us to write the history of the East-West encounter through critical lenses that demonstrate the workings of power-knowledge in the elaborate war-economy of racialised colonial-capitalism.
Many of the tropes used by these colonial-era scholars and travellers, such as the indolence or savagery of the native population, are still very much in use today - which means we still live in the long shadow of the 19th century.
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