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Orphaned landscapes : violence, visuality, and appearance in Indonesia

Title: Orphaned landscapes : violence, visuality, and appearance in Indonesia / Patricia Spyer.
Author: Spyer, Patricia, 1957-
Publication: New York : Fordham University Press, [2022]

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Description

viii, 304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 23 cm

Summary

"Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and other Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town in eastern Indonesia where conflict had arisen between Muslims and Christians. A manifestation of the extreme perception that emerged amid uncertainty and the challenge to seeing brought on by urban warfare, the street paintings erected by Protestant motorbike-taxi drivers signaled a radical departure from the aniconic tradition of the old colonial church, a desire to be seen and recognized by political authorities from Jakarta to the UN and European Union, an aim to reinstate the Christian look of a city in the face of the country's widespread islamicization, and an opening to a more intimate relationship to the divine through the bringing-into-vision of the Christian god. Stridently assertive, these affectively charged mediations of religion, masculinity, Christian privilege and subjectivity are among the myriad ephemera of war, from rumors, graffiti, incendiary pamphlets, and Video CDs, to Peace Provocateur text-messages and children's reconciliation drawings. Orphaned Landscapes theorizes the production of monumental street art and other visual media as part of a wider work on appearance in which ordinary people, wittingly or unwittingly, refigure the aesthetic forms and sensory environment of their urban surroundings. The book offers a rich, nuanced account of a place in crisis, while also showing how the work on appearance, far from epiphenomenal, is inherent to sociopolitical change. Whether considering the emergence and disappearance of street art or the atmospherics and fog of war, Spyer demonstrates the importance of an attunement to elusive, ephemeral phenomena for their palpable and varying effects in the world"--

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Violence, Visuality, and Appearance -- Fire without Smoke -- Christ at Large -- Images without Borders -- Religion under the Sign of Crisis -- Provoking Peace -- Conclusion : Ephemeral Mediations.

Call Number

JQE 22-97

ISBN

9780823298686
082329868X
9780823298693
0823298698

LCCN

2021037936
40030869680

OCLC

1263247487

Author

Spyer, Patricia, 1957- author.

Title

Orphaned landscapes : violence, visuality, and appearance in Indonesia / Patricia Spyer.

Publisher

New York : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1998

Other Standard Identifier

40030869680

Research Call Number

JQE 22-97

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