Data-Gathering in colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900 framing the other
Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers who wrote about Southe...
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
2020
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Colonies
> Imperialism
> History
> POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
> Southeast Asia
> Colonial influence
> Great Britain
> Asien
> Südostasien
> Großbritannien
> Kolonialismus
> Einfluss
> Imperialismus
> Kolonie
> Verwaltung
> Soziologie
> Sozialgeschichte
> Kulturelle Entwicklung
> Datenerfassung
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers who wrote about Southeast Asia in the 19th century. In the course of their information-gathering they had also framed the people of Southeast Asia in a manner that gave rise to Orientalist racial stereotypes that would be used again and again. This work revisits the era of colonial data-collecting to demonstrate the workings of the imperial echo chamber, and how in the discourse of 19th century colonial-capitalism data was effectively weaponized to serve the interests of Empire. Farish A. Noor is Associate Professor at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, where he teaches the history and politics of Southeast Asia. This is an original work on the role of data collection in colonial Southeast Asia, one of the first of its kind in the domain of Southeast Asian Studies. Its originality lies in the manner that it examines colonial data-gathering in terms of the concept of the panopticon and how the identities of colonized Southeast Asians were framed as a result. Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore |
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| Beschreibung: | 265 Seiten 23.4 x 15.6 cm |
| ISBN: | 9463724419 94-6372-441-9 9789463724418 978-94-6372-441-8 |