Performing Colonial Modernity: Fairs, Consumerism, and the Emergence of the Indonesian Middle Classes
Performing Colonial Modernity: Fairs, Consumerism, and the Emergence of the Indonesian Middle Classes
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表现殖民现代性：集市、消费主义和印度尼西亚中产阶级的出现
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10.1163/22134379-17304015
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2017
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A. V. D. Meer
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A. V. D. Meer
殖民后期的印度尼西亚见证了年度博览会和展览的激增，吸引了来自所有种族背景和各行各业的数十万游客。本文认为，荷兰殖民者组织这些博览会的一部分，更大的霸权企图合法化殖民当局。在博览会上，特别展览展示了殖民统治的仁慈，而现代化的展示则强调了西方所谓的文化，技术和科学优势。此外，游客被吸引去消费西方产品以及与之相关的生活方式和世界观。这些博览会主要针对新生的印度尼西亚中产阶级，他们对维持殖民统治越来越重要。它表明，博览会的互动和话语空间，中产阶级不仅买了殖民话语，但谈判和挑战西方现代性，创造一个独特的，印尼中产阶级的生活方式和文化的网站。
Late-colonial Indonesia witnessed the proliferation of annual fairs and exhibitions that attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors from all ethnic backgrounds and walks of life. This article argues that the Dutch colonizers organized these fairs as part of a larger hegemonic attempt to legitimize colonial authority. At the fairgrounds special exhibits demonstrated the benevolence of colonial governance, while modernity was displayed to emphasize the alleged cultural, technological, and scientific superiority of the West. Moreover, visitors were enticed to consume Western products and the lifestyles and world views associated with them. These fairs were mainly aimed at, and were constitutive of, the nascent Indonesian middle classes that became increasingly central to the maintenance of colonial rule. It is demonstrated that fairs were sites of interaction and discursive spaces where the middle classes not only bought into colonial discourse, but negotiated and challenged Western modernity to create a distinct, Indonesian middle-class lifestyle and culture.