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Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam

Vicente L. Rafael, ed.

SOSEA-25, 1999 , 259 pp. 9780877277248 paperback $23.95

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A collection of essays that stem from a conference on the nature, definitions, reasons, and substance of criminality and the relationship between criminality and colonial state formation. The authors delve into such themes as surveillance, incarceration, law and custom, secrecy, and corruption. Hendrik M. J. Maier writes of the criminalization of the Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Peter Zinoman studies modern prisons, and Caroline S. Hau focuses upon illegal aliens and concepts of criminality in the Philippines. The work, taken as a whole, is a fascinating study of power and subversion in the modern post-colonial nation-state. Contributors include Daniel S. Lev, Hendrik M.J. Maier, Rudolf Mrázek, James T. Siegel, and others.

“…the authors provide a wealth of material that reflects a wide range of analyses from various disciplinary perspectives, very ably supplemented by an editorial introduction that seeks to instill a sense of focus to the whole work.” Bijdragen

"[P]roblematize[s] the concept of criminality and its long-standing intimacy with the formation and consolidation of the state and capitalism.... a major contribution." Asian Journal of Social Science

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