Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland （ＧＣＯＥ関係者による出版物）
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| 【書籍紹介】A staple of post-war academic writing, "nationalism" is a contentious and often unanalyzed abstraction that has come to be treated as something "imagined", "fashioned", and "disseminated". The nation is presented as an idea, something located in the mind, in printed matter, on maps, in symbols such as flags and anthems, and in collective memory. Between Frontiers restores the nation to the social field from which it has been abstracted by looking at how the concept shapes the existence of people in border zones, where they live between nations. Noboru Ishikawa grounds his discussion of this phenomenon in materials gathered during two years of archival research and fieldwork in the border zone that separates Malaysian from Indonesian territory in western Borneo. His book explores the national order that is implemented when the state materializes its territoriality, asking how the state maintains its national space, and how people strategically situate themselves as members of a local community, nation, and ethnic group in a social field designated as national territory. By examining such questions in the context of concrete circumstances where a village boundary coincides with a national border, he is able to delineate the dialectical relationship between nation-state and borderland society both as history and as process.
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| 【推薦文】"This is such a marvellous book. I love the way it brings a structural analysis of capitalism and the state into a deep reading of history and ethnography. The international politics, smuggling, ethnic formation, asymmetrical labor migration, and ’location work’ found on isolated and little-known Cape Dato typify the striking particularity of transnational modernity. I will enjoy teaching it and will recommend it to many - far beyond the boundaries of SE Asian studies". Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (University of California, Santa Cruz) "Ishikawa has a deep and long-term knowledge of his subject. The mixture of historical, anthropological, and sociological approaches is inspiring, and Ishikawa mixes these genres skilfully. A detailed and impressive thick description permeates the book from the first page to the last, but it is also theoretically sophisticated. This combination sets it apart from quite a few other studies that accomplish one or the other but not both." Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell University) |
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