1st Edition
Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia
Edited By Susie Protschky
Copyright 2015
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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The essays in this volume examine, from a historical perspective, how contested notions of modernity, civilization, and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia, a period when the Dutch colonial regime was implementing a liberal reform program known as the Ethical Policy. The contributors reveal how the camera evoked diverse, often contradictory modes... Read more
Acknowledgments, Part One - Governing Lenses on Ethical Policy and Practice, Part Two - Local Lenses on living in an 'ethical' Indies
Biography
Dr Susie Protschky is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Monash University (Australia). She is the author of Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia (Leiden, 2011) and editor of Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-Colonial Indonesia (Amsterdam, 2014).
