Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia - 9781032087405

Taylor & Francis

Power and Knowledge in Southeast AsiaState and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines\nAuthor(s): Rommel Curaming\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032087405, 978-1032087405\nSynopsis\nExamining 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). \n\nKnown respectively as Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI) and the 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 scho.