Photography, modernity and the governed in late-colonial Indonesia /
This powerful study examines how contested notions of modernity, civilization and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia when a reform program known as the Ethical Policy was being implemented under the Dutch colonial regime. This is the first work to...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | This powerful study examines how contested notions of modernity, civilization and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia when a reform program known as the Ethical Policy was being implemented under the Dutch colonial regime. This is the first work to examine ethical ways of seeing through photography, a medium whose proliferation coincided with significant social and political change in colonial Indonesia. |
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| Physical Description: | 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789089646620 9089646620 |