Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia: State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines

ISBN-13: 9781032087405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str.

Rommel Curaming

Opis

Examining two state-sponsored history writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contexts of the two projects and, more importantly, provides a nuanced characterization of the relationship between embodiments of power and knowledge.

Spis treści

List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: power and knowledge

1 Indonesia and the Philippines: a contextual comparison

2 Genesis of Tadhana project

3 Tadhana in political and historiographic contexts

4 The making of Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI)

5 SNI: contents and contexts

6 The calculus of power–knowledge relations

Conclusion

Glossary

Index

O autorze

Rommel A. Curaming is Senior Assistant Professor at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). His areas of research include comparative historiography, history and memory of violence, historical theory, and knowledge politics in Southeast Asia, mainly Indonesia and the Philippines.