Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam /
A complex examination of "criminality" and "the criminal" as constructs and active presences in Southeast Asia. Contributors explore such themes as surveillance, incarceration, law and custom, secrecy, and corruption. A fascinating study of power and subversion in the modern post...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University,
1999.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: criminality and its others / Vicente L. Rafael
- From darkness to light: the optics of policing in late-colonial Netherlands East Indies / Rudolf Mrz̀ek
- Colonial criminals in Java, 1870-1910 / Henk Schulte Nordhold, Margreet van Till
- The usual suspects: Nardong Putik, Don Pepe Oyson, and Robin Hood / John Sidel
- Surveillance and territoriality in Bandung / Joshua Barker
- "Who will save us from the 'law'?": the criminal state and the illegal alien in post-1986 Philippines / Caroline S. Hau
- The history of the modern prison and the case of Indochina / Peter Zinoman
- Open secrets: excerpts from conversations with a Javanese lawyer, and a comment / John Pemberton
- A new criminal type in Jakarta: the nationalization of "Death" / James T. Siegel
- Flying a kite: the crimes of Pramoedya Ananta Toer / Hendrik M.J. Maier.