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Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia: State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
United Kingdom: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Examining two state-sponsored history-writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contexts of the two projects and, more importantly, provides a nuanced characterization of the relationship between embodiments of power (state, dictators, government officials) and knowledge (intellectuals, historians, history).
Known respectively as Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI) and Tadhana project, these projects were initiated by the Suharto and Marcos authoritarian regimes against the backdrop of rising and competing nationalisms, as well as the regimes' efforts at political consolidation. The dialectics between actors and the politico-academic contexts determine whether scholarship and politics would clash, mutually support, or co-exist parallel with one another. Rather than one side manipulating or co-opting the other, this study shows the mutual need or partnership between scholars and political actors in these projects. It proposes the need to embrace rather than deny or transcend the entwined power/knowledge if the idea is for scholarship to realize its truly progressive visions.
Analyzing the dynamics of state-scholar relations in the two countries, the book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Southeast Asian history and politics, nationalism, historiography, intellectual history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies and the sociology of knowledge.