Colonial pasts, future cities : urban heritage advocacy in post-authoritarian Indonesia
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In cities across Indonesia, the tangible traces of Dutch colonial rule are drawing the attention of an eclectic group of academics, activists, and artists, who now advocate vigorously for these crumbling buildings and aging infrastructures to be treasured as "heritage." This dissertation explores this emergent phenomenon, which I term "urban heritage advocacy, " as one that can offer critical insights into wider debates regarding colonialism and postcolonialism, urban development and urban governance, and the political and social sea-changes that post-Reformasi Indonesia has undergone since the fall of authoritarian rule in 1998. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Semarang, Central Java, urban heritage advocacy is shown here to shape not only the material fabric of the neighborhoods now designated as heritage sites, but also to produce new forms of citizenship, re-negotiate the relationship between civil society and state authority, and profoundly impact the lives of the city's most marginalized inhabitants. Throughout, I argue that heritage furnishes Indonesia's newly-energized middle-classes with the opportunity and means to order and re-order the world around them, while also constraining the lives and livelihoods of the urban poor with whom they share this rapidly-changing cityscape.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Yapp, Lauren |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Meskell, Lynn |
| Thesis advisor | Meskell, Lynn |
| Thesis advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Thesis advisor | Kusno, Abidin, 1966- |
| Degree committee member | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Degree committee member | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Degree committee member | Kusno, Abidin, 1966- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Lauren Yapp. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Lauren Elizabeth Yapp
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-ND).
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