Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland

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Ohio University Press, Mar 15, 2010 - Social Science - 275 pages

A staple of postwar academic writing, “nationalism” is a contentious and often unanalyzed abstraction. It is generally treated as something “imagined,” “fashioned,” and “disseminated,”as an idea 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 hasbeen abstracted by looking at how the concept shapes the existenceof people in border zones, where they live between nations.
Noboru Ishikawa grounds his discussion of border zones in materials gathered during two years of archival research and fieldwork relating to the boundary that separates Malaysian from Indonesian territory in western Borneo. His book considers how the state maintains its national space and how people strategically situate themselves by their community, nation, and ethnic group designated as national territory.Examining these issues in the context of concrete circumstances, where a village boundary coincides with a national border, allows him to delineate the dialectical relationship between nation-state and borderland society both as history and as process. Scholars across the humanities and social sciences will learn from this masterful linking of history and ethnography, and of macro and micro perspectives.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
From Sultanate Frontier to National Periphery
13
Inscribing a Village and a Nation on the Border
93
Conclusion
225
Agriculture in Telok Melano
233
Bibliography
252
Index
262
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Ahmad Zaidi became Borneo British Brunei Cape Dato cash crop Chinese coast coastal coconut plantations colonial commodities communist coolies copra copying copyrighted material published cross-border cultural Dayaks distributing Dutch Borneo Dutch Sambas Dutch West Borneo economic ethnic export fields frontier gambier gardens Haji hill rice illegal Illus Indonesian jerame jungle Konfrontasi labor land law is illegal Lundu District Malaysian migration nakoda nation-state national boundary national space national territory officers Ohio University Press/Swallow padi Pak Daud peasants pepper permitted under U.S. planted political Pontianak production published by Ohio Rajah reading copyrighted material residents ringgit rubber sheets Sambas Sambas Malay Sarawak Gazette Sarawak Malay Sarawakian secondary forest Sematan Singapore smuggling social Southeast Asia spatial Sultan swidden agriculture taukay Tekam Patah Telok Melano villagers Telok Serabang Temajuk timber trade transnational transnationalism trees U.S. copyright law Unauthorized posting University Press/Swallow Press village compound West Kalimantan western Borneo

About the author (2010)

Noboru Ishikawa is an associate professor of social anthropology at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. His publications include Dislocating Nation-States: Globalization in Asia and Africa.

Bibliographic information

TitleBetween Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland
Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series
AuthorNoboru Ishikawa
Editionreprint
PublisherOhio University Press, 2010
ISBN0896804763, 9780896804760
Length275 pages
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