"In DEMANDING IMAGES Karen Strassler uses the concept of image-event -- a period where images circulate in ways that contest and transform the public sphere -- to understand post-New Order Indonesia. Appropriated images, including images of Suharto and his historical opponents, …
"In DEMANDING IMAGES Karen Strassler uses the concept of image-event -- a period where images circulate in ways that contest and transform the public sphere -- to understand post-New Order Indonesia. Appropriated images, including images of Suharto and his historical opponents, …
"In DEMANDING IMAGES Karen Strassler uses the concept of image-event -- a period where images circulate in ways that contest and transform the public sphere -- to understand post-New Order Indonesia. Appropriated images, including images of Suharto and his historical opponents, …
"In DEMANDING IMAGES Karen Strassler uses the concept of image-event -- a period where images circulate in ways that contest and transform the public sphere -- to understand post-New Order Indonesia. Appropriated images, including images of Suharto and his historical opponents, …
"In DEMANDING IMAGES Karen Strassler uses the concept of image-event -- a period where images circulate in ways that contest and transform the public sphere -- to understand post-New Order Indonesia. Appropriated images, including images of Suharto and his historical opponents, …
"In DEMANDING IMAGES Karen Strassler uses the concept of image-event -- a period where images circulate in ways that contest and transform the public sphere -- to understand post-New Order Indonesia. Appropriated images, including images of Suharto and his historical opponents, …
"In DEMANDING IMAGES Karen Strassler uses the concept of image-event -- a period where images circulate in ways that contest and transform the public sphere -- to understand post-New Order Indonesia. Appropriated images, including images of Suharto and his historical opponents, …
An illustrated study of the ways in which photography and visual culture have influenced people in Java to see themselves as Indonesians.
"Refracted Visions is a genuinely marvelous work which merits reading and rereading."--John Pemberton, author of on the Subject of "Java." "Refracted Visions is a tour de force. Karen Strassler has a sophisticated grasp of contemporary theories of representation in both anthrop…
This powerful study examines how contested notions of modernity, civilisation and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia when a reform programme known as the Ethical Policy was being implemented under the Dutch colonial regime. Th…