and postcoloniality, but China has been an empire in the modern sense since the mid– eighteenth century, when it conquered vast lands north and west of “China proper.”1 his history has been largely hidden from view because of two unacknowledged obsessions: the fetishization of Western empires over other empires and the prevailing discourse of Chinese victimhood at the hands of Western empires. ...

This article draws attention to the case of Aceh analyse mechanisms through which ideologically driven geographic imaginings obscured role place and class in colonial anti-colonial violence Indonesia. Its main perspective is region's West Coast. In course long brutal Dutch-Acehnese war (1873–1942), Coast Sumatra was transformed from a dynamic centre trade, commerce, religious renewal into front...

Abstract: Discourses on Islamization in Indonesia are quite varied, including giving birth to the opinion that Islam originated Gujarat, Mecca, Persia and China. The problem is, discourse about of coming which later became a unified historical story is rarely found. long colonial postcolonial periods. This paper aims elaborate vision according Hoesein Djajadiningrat. argues originates from Pers...

• The paper draws attention to corporate use of discourse physical conflict for the legitimisation violence. suggests that can be used create inequality. over land is rooted in colonial legacies. language reports lend support post-colonial ideologies. This explores how as a strategic resource boundary work confront between large scale mining companies and artisanal small-scale miners legitimacy...