Imagined racial laboratories: colonial and national racialisations in Southeast Asia

"Imagined Racial Laboratories reveals the watermarks of science in the dynamics of racialisation in Southeast Asia, during and after the colonial period. Bringing together a set of critical histories of race sciences, it illuminates the racialised dimensions of colony and nation in the region....

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Main Authors: Roque, Ricardo (Author, Editor), Anderson, Warwick 1958- (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2023]
Series:Brill's Southeast Asian library volume 10
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Summary:"Imagined Racial Laboratories reveals the watermarks of science in the dynamics of racialisation in Southeast Asia, during and after the colonial period. Bringing together a set of critical histories of race sciences, it illuminates the racialised dimensions of colony and nation in the region. It demonstrates that racialisation took - and continues to take - mutable and multiple forms that often connect, perhaps more than differentiate, colonial and national periods across a variety of Southeast Asian settings. Thus, imagined races have contributed as much to the invention of modern Southeast Asia as have other fabled imagined communities"--
Physical Description:XII, 329 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9789004542945