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"Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of the cities in Indonesia between 1920 and 1960. The contributions present a case for asserting that Indonesian cities were not merely the backdrop to processes of modernization and rising nationalism, but formed a causal factor. Modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. The various chapters deal with such innovations as the provision of medical treatments, fresh water and sanitation, the implementation of town planning and housing designs, and policies for coping with increased motorized traffic and industrialization. The contributors share a broad critique of the economic and political dimensions of colonialism, but remain alert to the agency of colonial subjects who respond, often critically, to a European modernity"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• 1. Modernization of the Indonesian city, 1920-1960
• pt. 1: State impositions and passive acceptance
• 2. Call for doctors!: uneven medical provision and the modernization of state health care during the decolonization of Indonesia, 1930s-1950s
• 3. (Post)colonial pipes: urban water supply in colonial and contemporary Jakarta
• 4. Netherlands Indies town planning: an agent of modernization (1905-1957)
• pt. 2: Partial accommodation
• 5. Rückert and Hoesni Thamrin: bureaucrat and politician in colonial Kampong improvement
• 6. Kotabaru and the housing estate as Bulwark against the indigenization of colonial Java
• 7. Public housing in Semarang and the modernization of Kampongs, 1930-1960
• 8. From autonomous village to 'informal slum': Kampong development and state control in Bandung (1930-1960)
• 9. Breaking the boundaries: the Uniekampong and modernization of dock labour in Tanjung Priok, Batavia (1917-1949)
• pt. 3: Selective appropriation
• 10. Moving at a different velocity: the modernization of transportation and social differentiation in Surabaya in the 1920s
• 11. The two alun-alun of Malang (1930-1960)
• 12. The indonesianization of the symbols of modernity in Plaju (Palembang), 1930s-1960s
• 13. Chinese cemeteries as a symbol of sacred space: control, conflict, and negotiation in Surabaya.

Contributors:

Colombijn, Freek

Coté, Joost

Colombijn, Freek, 1961-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Included Works:

Modernization of the Indonesian city, 1920-1960 [by Colombijn, F.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs : The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960 [by Colombijn, F.] (Leiden : BRILL, ©2014 — ISBN 9789004280694)

Related Series:

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde; [volume] 295

Subjects:

Cities and towns — Indonesia — History — 20th century

Decolonization — Indonesia

Urbanization — Indonesia

Nationalism — Indonesia — History — 20th century

1900-1999

Decolonization

Urbanization

Nationalism

Cities and towns

Indonesia

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HT147.I54 C377 2014eb

ISBNs:

9789004280724 (electronic bk.)
9004280723 (electronic bk.)
9004280693
9789004280694
1322223750
9781322223759
9789004280694 (hardback, alk. paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

894170623