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Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development
Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines.
This edited volume, from a leading international group of scholars, discusses the comparative legacy of colonial rule in the Netherlands Indies and Belgian Congo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Whereas the Indonesian economy progressed rapidly during the last three decades of the twentieth century and became a self-reliant and assertive world power, the Congo regressed into a state of political chaos and endemic violence. To which extent do the different legacies of Dutch and Belgian rule explain these different development outcomes, if they do at all? By discussing the comparative features and development of Dutch and Belgian rule, the book aims to 1) to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of colonial institutional legacies in long run patterns of economic divergence in the modern era; 2) to fill in a huge gap in the comparative colonial historical literature, which focuses largely on the comparative evolution of the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Empires; 3) to add a focused and well-motivated comparative case-study to the increasing strand of literature analyzing the marked differences in economic and political development in Asia and Africa during the postcolonial era.
Covering such issues as agriculture, manufacturing and foreign investment, human capital, fiscal policy, labour coercion and mineral resource management, this book offers a highly original and scholarly contribution to the literature on colonial history and development economics.
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Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia
The essays in this volume examine, from a historical perspective, how contested notions of modernity, civilization, and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia, a period when the Dutch colonial regime was implementing a liberal reform program known as the Ethical Policy. The contributors reveal how the camera evoked diverse, often contradictory modes of envisioning an ethically governed colony, one in which the very concepts of modernity and civilization were subject to dispute.
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Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia
The essays in Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia examine, from a historical perspective, how contested notions of modernity, civilization and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia (c. 1901-1942), a period when a liberal reform program known as the Ethical Policy was being implemented under the Dutch colonial regime.
This volume is the first English-language study of the Ethical Policy. It is also the first study to examine 'ethical' ways of seeing through photography, a medium whose proliferation among a mass audience as well as amateur practitioners coincided with a reform era that brought significant social and political change to colonial Indonesia.
The essays in this collection, by leading scholars in the field - Susie Protschky, Jean Gelman Taylor, Rudolf Mràzek, Henk Schulte Nordholt, Karen Strassler, Pamela Pattynama, Joost Cotè and Paul Bijl - reveal how the camera evoked diverse, often contradictory modes of envisioning an ethically-governed colony, one in which the promises of 'modernity' and 'civilization' were contested notions. Photographs made by and for Indonesian men and women, Chinese, and Indo-Europeans provide unique insights into the concerns of historical actors whose views on the Ethical Policy have rarely been canvassed. Photographs taken by European authorities also provide new perspectives on how the reform program was conceived and implemented by the governing classes.
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Language Ungoverned
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and
newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst's
Language Ungoverned examines how
the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and
political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh
perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power
relations.
As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic Chinese in
Indonesia resorted to the press for their education, legal and
medical advice, conflict resolution, and entertainment. Hoogervorst
deftly depicts how the linguistic choices made by these print
entrepreneurs brought Chinese-inflected Malay to the fore as the
language of popular culture and everyday life, subverting the
official Malay of the Dutch authorities. Through his readings of
Sino-Malay print culture published between the 1910s and 1940s,
Hoogervorst highlights the inherent value of this vernacular Malay
as a language of the people.
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Southeast Asia in the age of jazz: Locating popular culture in the colonial Philippines and Indonesia
Referencing insights from Cultural Studies and taking a jazz-age perspective, this essay aims to historicise and ‘locate the popular’ in colonial Indonesia and the Philippines. A new cultural era dawned in the 1920s urban hubs of Southeast Asia, associated with the creation of novel forms of vernacular literature, theatre, music and their consumption via the print press, gramophone, radio broadcasting and cinema. By investigating the complex relationship between the elusive phenomena of modernity, cosmopolitanism and nationalism as articulated by two pioneering artists active in commercial music and theatre, the social significance of popular culture is scrutinised.
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Pointy shoes and pith helmets : dress and identity construction in Ambon from 1850 to 1942
In Pointy Shoes and Pith Helmets Marianne Hulsbosch uses extensive research and firsthand accounts to describe intricate dress and adornment systems of the Ambonese people from the Central Maluku Islands of Indonesia, during the last century of Dutch colonial rule.
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Indonesian Cultural Policy in the Reform Era
Jones assesses how cultural policy in Indonesia has changed since the resignation of Suharto (1998), and the degree to which an influential body of research on New Order era cultural policy is still relevant today. Late Dutch colonial governance was an important driver of the construction of regional cultures in Indonesia, and the colonial state's designation of regional cultures became a spatial organizing principle that influenced the nation into the next century. Dutch administrators viewed their mission as guiding natural 'organic' cultural processes towards their evolution and thus fostering the improvement of the indigenous populations. Reprinted by permission of Cornell University, South East Asia Program Publications
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