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The politics of ruins and the business of nostalgia
In: Studies in contemporary Thailand 10
When art was political: Historicising decolonisation and the Cold War in Southeast Asia through curatorial practice
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 645-654
ISSN: 1474-0680
In Asia, and in Southeast Asia in particular, the Cold War was far from cold, witnessing the most deadly conflicts and political massacres of the second half of the twentieth century. Also, the clash of ideologies there did not follow a binary logic but included a third force, nationalism, which was rooted in the anticolonialist movements of the interwar years and played a significant role even in countries that decolonised peacefully after the end of the Second World War. The Cold War thus overlapped with the twin process of decolonisation and nation-building, which had its founding moment at the Asian-African Conference at Bandung in 1955, where the non-aligned camp, which advocated a neutral position vis-à-vis the two rival blocs, coalesced (one year ealier, the anticommunist Southeast Asia Treaty Organization had been established). Postcolonial aspirations to national progress that tied socioeconomic development to the civic and cultural elevation of the citizenry were widely shared among newly decolonised countries. By the mid-1960s, however, the utopian 'Bandung Spirit' had lost ground to Cold War realpolitik; intra-Asian and communal conflicts fomented by Cold War enmities (the Sino–Indian War of 1962, the Indo–Pakistani War of 1965, Indonesia's anticommunist purges of 1965–66) along with the escalation of the Vietnam War and the consequent exacerbation of regional divisions, belied governments' earlier commitment to human rights, Third World solidarity and world peace. The authoritarian involution of several Asian countries that were often American allies, redoubled by the opening of their economies to multinational corporations, led many artists and intellectuals to embrace political activism. The conception of art as a revolutionary instrument in the service of the masses had been famously articulated by Mao Zedong at the Yan'an Forum in 1942. In China, Mao's prescriptions on art were sidelined, though never officially repudiated, only in the early 1990s, following the end of the Cold War and the adoption of a socialist market economy, by acknowledging the necessity 'to respect and guarantee the creativity of individuals'.
Southeast Asia. UNESCO in Southeast Asia: World heritage sites in comparative perspective Edited by Victor T. King Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 464. Maps, Tables, Illustrations, Bibliography
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 152-154
ISSN: 1474-0680
Editorial Foreword
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 331-332
ISSN: 1474-0680
Masked: the life of Anna Leonowens, schoolmistress at the court of Siam
In: Asian studies review, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 473-474
ISSN: 1467-8403
Editorial Foreword
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 165-167
ISSN: 1474-0680
Editorial Foreword
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 343-345
ISSN: 1474-0680
Editorial Foreword
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 173-174
ISSN: 1474-0680
Editorial Foreword
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 1-3
ISSN: 1474-0680
Editorial Foreword
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 313-314
ISSN: 1474-0680
Editorial Foreword
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 151-152
ISSN: 1474-0680
Editorial Foreword
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 1-3
ISSN: 1474-0680
Editorial Foreword
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 377-379
ISSN: 1474-0680