The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse
Title
The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse
Price
€ 140,99
ISBN
9789048527489
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eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
Number of pages
304
Language
English
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Dimensions
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Category
History
Discipline
Asian Studies
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Farish A. Noor

The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse

The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ranging from hyper-nationalism to disputes over cultural ownership throughout the region. Those forces, Farish A. Noor argues in this book, have their roots in the region's failure to come to a critical understanding of how current national and cultural identities in the region came about. To remedy that, Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism, and shows how that construct remains a potent aspect of political, economic, and cultural disputes today.
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Author

Farish A. Noor

Farish A. Noor is Professor of Southeast Asian History at the Faculty of Arts, University Malaya.