Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960 (Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde, 295)

Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors demonstrate how modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. A full text Open Access version will also become available. Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920–1960 Copyright Dedication Contents Preface List of Figures and Tables Contributors 1 Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920–1960 PART 1: State Impositions and Passive Acceptance 2 Call for Doctors!: Uneven Medical Provision and the Modernization of State Health Care during the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1930s–1950s 3 (Post)Colonial Pipes: Urban Water Supply in Colonial and Contemporary Jakarta 4 Netherlands Indies Town Planning: An Agent of Modernization (1905–1957) PART 2: Partial Accommodation 5 Rückert and Hoesni Thamrin: Bureaucrat and Politician in Colonial Kampong Improvement 6 Kotabaru and the Housing Estate as Bulwark against the Indigenization of Colonial Java 7 Public Housing in Semarang and the Modernization of Kampongs, 1930–1960 8 From Autonomous Village to ‘Informal Slum’: Kampong Development and State Control in Bandung (1930–1960) 9 Breaking the Boundaries: The Uniekampong and Modernization of Dock Labour in Tanjung Priok, Batavia (1917–1949) PART 3: Selective Appropriation 10 Moving at a Different Velocity: The Modernization of Transportation and Social Differentiation in Surabaya in the 1920s 11 The Two alun-alun of Malang (1930–1960) 12 The Indonesianization of the Symbols of Modernity in Plaju (Palembang), 1930s–1960s 13 Chinese Cemeteries as a Symbol of Sacred Space: Control, Conflict, and Negotiation in Surabaya Index Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of the cities in Indonesia between 1920 and 1960. The contributions present a case for asserting that Indonesian cities were not merely the backdrop to processes of modernization and rising nationalism, but formed a causal factor. Modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. The various chapters deal with such innovations as the provision of medical treatments, fresh water and sanitation, the implementation of town planning and housing designs, and policies for coping with increased motorized traffic and industrialization. The contributors share a broad critique of the economic and political dimensions of colonialism, but remain alert to the agency of colonial subjects who respond, often critically, to a European modernity. Contributors include: Freek Colombijn, Joost Cot, Saki Murakami, Michelle Kooy, Karen Bakker, Pauline K.M. van Roosmalen, Hans Versnel, Farabi Fakih, Radjimo Sastro Wijono, Gustaaf Reerink, Arjan Veering, Johny A. Khusyairi, Purnawan Basundoro, Ida Liana Tanjung, and Sarkawi B. Husain "Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of the cities in Indonesia between 1920 and 1960. The contributions present a case for asserting that Indonesian cities were not merely the backdrop to processes of modernization and rising nationalism, but formed a causal factor. Modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. The various chapters deal with such innovations as the provision of medical treatments, fresh water and sanitation, the implementation of town planning and housing designs, and policies for coping with increased motorized traffic and industrialization. The contributors share a broad critique of the economic and political dimensions of colonialism, but remain alert to the agency of colonial subjects who respond, often critically, to a European modernity"-- Provided by publisher Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors demonstrate how modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. A full text Open Access version is also available.