Overview
Using the presence of the past as a point of departure, this books explores three critical themes in Southeast Asian oral history: the relationship between oral history and official histories produced by nation-states; the nature of memories of violence; and intersections between oral history, oral tradition, and heritage discourses.
Full Product Details
Author: K. Loh ,
S. Dobbs ,
E. Koh
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 4.358kg
ISBN: 9781137311665
ISBN 10: 1137311665
Pages: 205
Publication Date: 19 July 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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'A pioneering attempt - the first I know of - to systematically explore the knowledge only available through oral accounts as opposed to written texts, official history, and newspapers. A brilliant and original invitation to re-imagine the craft of history itself and to re-tell the history of Southeast Asia as it is spoken and remembered by those who lived it.' - James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University, USA 'Southeast Asian regimes better think twice before becoming too comfortably smug in their belief that their citizens have been successfully (re)molded into docile subjects. As this wonderful collection of 'stories from below' indicate, individuals, families and communities from all over the region express opinions different from if not critical of official narratives. These are tales that have been ingeniously preserved and protected from repeated attempts by the state to make people forget about them.' - Patricio N. Abinales, University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA
Author Information
Kah Seng Loh is Assistant Professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University. He is author of The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya: Tangled Strands of Modernity (co-authored 2012) and Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore (forthcoming in 2013). Stephen Dobbs is Associate Professor in Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. He is author of The Singapore River: A Social History 1819-2002 (2002) and co-author of Engineers Engaging Community: Water and Energy (2013). Ernest Koh is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Australia. He is author of Singapore Stories: Language, Class, and the Chinese of Singapore (2010) and Diaspora At War: The Chinese of Malaya between Empire and Nation 1937-1945 (forthcoming in 2013).
