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Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia /

This powerful study examines how contested notions of modernity, civilisation and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia when a reform programme known as the Ethical Policy was being implemented under the Dutch colonial regime. This is the first work...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Protschky, Susie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This powerful study examines how contested notions of modernity, civilisation and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia when a reform programme 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (245 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9789048523382