House of Glass : Culture, Modernity, and the State in Southeast Asia /

Drawing on critical theory and post-modernism, this book argues for a new strategy for writing about the social and cultural experiences of living in modern Southeast Asian states. Contributors -- many of whom work in universities in the region -- question the processes of cultural transformation un...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Yao, Souchou (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2001]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nationalism.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Mass media > Political aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Nationalisme > Asie du Sud-Est.
Medias > Aspect social > Asie du Sud-Est.
Nationalism > Southeast Asia.
Mass media > Social aspects > Southeast Asia.
Mass media > Political aspects > Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Introduction / Souchou, Yao
  • Part One: Local desire and global anxieties
  • 1. Desperately guarding borders: media globalization, "cultural imperialism", and the rise of "Asia" / Ang, Ien
  • 2. Modernity and Mahathir's rage: theorizing state discourse of mass media in Southeast Asia / Souchou, Yao
  • 3. Representing state desire and the sins of transgression / Langenbach, Ray
  • 4. McNationalism in Singapore / Choy, Lee Weng
  • Part Two: Identity, the state, and post-modernity
  • 5. National identity, diasporic anxiety, and music video culture in Vietnam / Carruthers, Ashley
  • 6. The post-modernization of Thainess / Tejapira, Kasian
  • Part Three: State power, development, and the spectre of nation-building
  • 7. Cultural claims on the new world order: Malaysia as a voice for the Third World? / Wong, Loong
  • 8. (De)constructing the New Order: capitalism and the cultural contours of the patrimonial state in Indonesia / Berger, Mark T.
  • 9. The state and information in modern Southeast Asian history / Harper, T.N.
  • Part Four: Representational strategies and politics of the popular
  • 10. Representing the Singapore modern: Dick Lee, pop music, and the "New" Asia / Wee, C.J.W.-L.
  • 11. Pictures at an exhibition: re-presenting the sugar industry at the Negros Museum, Philippines / Roces, Marian Pastor
  • 12. Stars in the shadows: celebrity, media, and the state in Vietnam / Thomas, Mandy / Heng, Russell H.-K.
  • 13. On the expressway, and under it: representations of the middle class, the poor, and democracy in Thailand / Ockey, James
  • Index

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