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

by Kusno,Abidin

• ISBN13: 9780415236157
• ISBN10: 0415236150
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. It shows how one might write a political history of postcolonial cultures of the present without neglecting the importance of the colonial past. In the process, it poses serious questions about the relevance of contemporary postcolonial theory and criticism for the analysis and understanding of postcolonial states.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(24)
PART I: ARCHITECTURE
``Origins'' Revisited: Colonial Milieu and the Crisis of Architectural Representations	25	(24)
Modern Architecture and Traditional Polity: Jakarta in the Time of Sukarno	49	(22)
Recreating Origins: The Birth of ``Tradition'' in the Architecture of the New Order	71	(26)
PART II: URBAN SPACE
The Violence of Categories: Urban Space and the Making of the National Subject	97	(23)
Colonial Replica: Urban Design and Political Cultures	120	(24)
Custodians of (Trans)nationality: Urban Conflict, Middle Class Prestige, and the Chinese	144	(25)
PART III: (TRANS)NATIONAL IMAGININGS
Professional and National Dreams: The Political Imaginings of Indonesian Architects	169	(21)
``Spectre of Comparisons'': Notes on Discourses of Architecture and Urban Design in Southeast Asia	190	(16)
Conclusion: Beyond the Postcolonial?	206	(7)
Notes	213	(20)
References	233	(14)
Index	247