Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia

ISBN-13: 9780415236157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 266 str.

Abidin Kusno

Opis

In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterize an emerging as well as a declining social order. It addresses the complex interactions between public memories of the present and past, between images of global urban cultures and the concrete historical meanings of the local. It shows how one might write a political history of postcolonial architecture and urban space that recognizes the political cultures of the present without neglecting the importance of the colonial past. In the process, it poses serious questions for the analysis and understanding of postcolonial states.

Spis treści

List of Figures. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part One: Architecture 1.Origins Revisited. 2.Modern Architecture and Traditional Policy. 3.Recreating Origins. Part Two: Urban Space 4.The Violence of Categories. 5.Colonial Replica. 6.Custodians of (Trans)nationality. Part Three: (Trans)national Imaginings 7.Professional and National Dreams. 8.Spectre of Comparisons. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.

O autorze

Authored by Kusno, Abidin