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  • - Framing the Other
    af Farish A. Noor
    1.323,95 kr.

    Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers who wrote about Southeast Asia in the 19th century. In the course of their information-gathering they had also framed the people of Southeast Asia in a manner that gave rise to Orientalist racial stereotypes that would be used again and again. Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900: Framing the Other revisits the era of colonial data-collecting to demonstrate the workings of the imperial echo chamber, and how in the discourse of 19th century colonial-capitalism data was effectively weaponized to serve the interests of Empire.

  • - Before the Pivot
    af Farish A. Noor
    2.148,95 kr.

    This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast Asia through their own cultural-political lenses.

  • af Farish A. Noor
    2.113,95 kr.

    Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism.

  • - The Tablighi Jama'at in Southeast Asia
    af Farish A. Noor
    833,95 kr.

    SHORTLISTED for the ICAS Book Prize 2013 http://www.icassecretariat.org/icas-book-prize-2013-shortlists Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and spread of the Tabligh

  • - Islamism in a Mottled Nation
    af Farish A. Noor
    1.268,95 kr.

    A historical recount on the development of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS and how it rose to become the most prominent Islamist party in Southeast Asia.