Research Catalog

The phantom world of Digul : policing as politics in colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941

Title

The phantom world of Digul : policing as politics in colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941 / Takashi Shiraishi.

Author

Shiraishi, Takashi, 1950-

Publication

Singapore : NUS Press ; Kyoto : Kyoto University Press, Japan, [2021]
©2021

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	DS643 .S475 2021	Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Description

xi, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 23 cm.

Summary

Digul was an internment colony for political prisoners that was established in 1926 in West Papua. This book argues that Digul is the key to understanding Indonesia's colonial governance between the failed communist rebellion of late 1926 and the declaration of independence in 1945, a time when the Dutch regime attempted to impose what they called "rust en orde" or peace and order, on the Indonesian people via the suppression of politics by the police. The political policing regime the Dutch Indies state created, Takashi Shiraishi shows, was simultaneously a success and a failure. While unrest was to some degree put down, the native terrain was never completely pacified, as activists linked up with each other in fluid networks that cut across spatial and ideational boundaries.

Series Statement

Kyoto-CSEAS series on Asian studies ; 23

Uniform Title

Kyoto CSEAS series on Asian studies ; 23.

Alternative Title

Policing as politics in colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographic references (pages 306-319) and index.

Language (note)

In English.

ISBN

9789813251410
9813251417
9784814003624
4814003625

LCCN

2021307585

OCLC

on1241242997
1241242997
SCSB-14492043

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries