Title Performing Power : Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia

Published [Place of publication not identified] : CORNELL University Press, 2021 Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource 1 online resource Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Spelling and Terms -- Introduction. Performance of Power -- 1. Setting the Stage: The Javanization of Colonial Authority in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. "Sweet Was the Dream, Bitter the Awakening" : Contested Implementation of the Ethical Policy, 1901-1913 -- 3. Disrupting the Colonial Performance: The Hormat Circular of 1913 and the National Awakening -- 4. Contesting Sartorial Hierarchies: From Ethnic Stereotypes to National Dress -- 5. East Is East, and West Is West: Forging Modern Identities -- 6. Staging Colonial Modernity: Hegemony, Fairs, and the Indonesian Middle Classes -- Epilogue. Pawnshops as Stages of the Colonial Performance of Power -- Notes -- Bibliography Summary 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 Notes Print version record Subject Group identity -- Indonesia -- Java -- History -- 19th century Group identity -- Indonesia -- Java -- History -- 20th century Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 1798-1942 Politics and culture -- Indonesia -- Java -- History -- 19th century Politics and culture -- Indonesia -- Java -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia. Group identity. Politics and culture. Indonesia -- Java. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501758591 1501758594

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