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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (245 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9789048523382 |