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Between Frontiers : Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia SeriesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780896804760
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Between FrontiersDDC classification:
  • 320.5409595/4
LOC classification:
  • JC323 -- .I8513 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Currency -- Introduction -- Part I: From Sultanate Frontier to National Periphery -- 1. The Geo-body in Transition -- 2. Inscribing a Boundary at the Imperial Margin -- 3. Contraband and "Konfrontasi -- Part II: Inscribing a Village and a Nation on the Border -- 4. On the Periphery -- 5. The Genesis of Ethnic Displacement -- 6. Border Location Work -- 7. Osmotic Pressure of the Nation-State -- 8. Borderland Development -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Agriculture in Telok Melano -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A staple of postwar academic writing, "nationalism" is a contentious and often unanalyzed abstraction. It is generally treated as something "imagined," "fashioned," and "disseminated,"as an idea located in the mind, in printed matter, on maps, in symbols such as flags and anthems, and in collective memory.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Currency -- Introduction -- Part I: From Sultanate Frontier to National Periphery -- 1. The Geo-body in Transition -- 2. Inscribing a Boundary at the Imperial Margin -- 3. Contraband and "Konfrontasi -- Part II: Inscribing a Village and a Nation on the Border -- 4. On the Periphery -- 5. The Genesis of Ethnic Displacement -- 6. Border Location Work -- 7. Osmotic Pressure of the Nation-State -- 8. Borderland Development -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Agriculture in Telok Melano -- Bibliography -- Index.

A staple of postwar academic writing, "nationalism" is a contentious and often unanalyzed abstraction. It is generally treated as something "imagined," "fashioned," and "disseminated,"as an idea located in the mind, in printed matter, on maps, in symbols such as flags and anthems, and in collective memory.

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