The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ranging from hyper-nationalism to disputes over cultural ownership throughout the region. Those forces, Farish A. Noor argues in this book, have their roots in the region's failure to come to a critical understanding of how current national and cultural identities in the region came about. To remedy that, Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism, and shows how that construct remains a potent aspect of political, economic, and cultural disputes today.
- ISBN10 9089648844
- ISBN13 9789089648846
- Publish Date 21 October 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Amsterdam University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English
- URL http://aup.nl/index.php/catalogsearch/result/?q=9789089648846