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Performing Power : Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia by Arnout van der Meer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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__Performing Power__ illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legitimized, maintained, negotiated, and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between the colonizer and colonized. Van der Meer's __Performing Power__ explores what seemingly ordinary interactions reveal about the construction of national, racial, social, religious, and gender identities as well as the experience of modernity in colonial Indonesia. Through acts of everyday resistance, such as speaking a different language, withholding deference, and changing one's appearance and consumer behavior, a new generation of Indonesians contested the hegemonic colonial appropriation of local culture, and the racial and gender inequalities that it sustained. Over time these relationships of domination and subordination became inverted, and by the 20th century the Javanese used the tropes of Dutch colonial behavior to subvert the administrative hierarchy of the state.

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Author

Arnout van der Meer

Publisher

Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprintof Cornell University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501758591

Category

nonfiction