Main entry:

Kusno, Abidin, 1966-

Title & Author:

Behind the postcolonial : architecture, urban space, and political cultures in Indonesia / Abidin Kusno.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Description:

xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Architext series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-246) and index.
Introduction --- Part One: Architecture. 1. Origins Revisited: colonial milieu and the crisis of architectural representations -- 2. Modern Architecture and Traditional Policy: Jakarta in the time of Sukarno -- 3. Recreating Origins: the birth of tradition in the architecture of the New Order --- Part Two: Urban Space. 4. The Violence of Categories: urban space and the making of the national subject -- 5. Colonial Replica: urban design and political cultures -- 6. Custodians of (Trans)nationality: urban conflict, middle class prestige, and the Chinese --- Part Three: (Trans)national Imaginings 7. Professional and National Dreams: the political imaginings of Indonisian architects -- 8. Spectre of Comparisons: notes on discourses of architecture and urban design in Southeast Asia --- Conclusion: beyond the postcolonial.

Summary:

In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterize an emerging as well as a declining social order. It addresses the complex interactions between public memories of the present and past, between images of global urban cultures and the concrete historical meanings of the local. It shows how one might write a political history of postcolonial architecture and urban space that recognizes the political cultures of the present without neglecting the importance of the colonial past. In the process, it poses serious questions for the analysis and understanding of postcolonial states.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415236142 (hb)
9780415236140 (hb)
0415236150 (pb)
9780415236157 (pb)

Subject:

Architecture Indonesia History 20th century.
City planning Indonesia History 20th century.
Postcolonialism Indonesia.
Architecture Indonésie 20e siècle.
Postcolonialisme Indonésie.
Architecture Indonésie Histoire 20e siècle.
74.72 urban planning.
Architecture.
City planning.
Postcolonialism.
Architektur
Politische Kultur
Stadtforschung
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Architekturkritik
Postkolonialismus
Architekturtheorie
Stadsplanning.
Bouwkunst.
Postkolonialisme.
Politieke cultuur.
Architecture Indonesia 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Indonesia.
Architecture Indonesia.
Architecture 20th century Indonesia
City planning Indonesia.
Architecture and state Indonesia.
Indonesia.
Indonesien
Geschichte 1900-2000

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Architext series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212790
Call No.: NA1526 .K8 2000
Status: Available