Rethinking Indonesia

SIMON PHILPOTT is coordinator of Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania.

• Acknowledgements Foreword: Knowing Indonesia: Power, Politics and Change Knowing Indonesia: The Making of an Orientalist The Study of Indonesian Politics Imagining Southeast Asia: Power and Knowledge in the Formation of a Southeast Asian Politics Discourse Government, Subjectivity, and Power: Contemporary Indonesian Politics Discourse and Its Alternatives Bibliography Index

'In the space opened by Said's Orientalism comes Philpott's Rethinking Indonesia. Demonstrating powerfully that the production of our knowledge about South East Asia and Indonesia imbibes the concerns of European identity, American social science, and a variety of historical and political confluences bearing upon the inquiry, Philpott radically re-orients conventional approaches to area studies and ensures that the idea of 'the region' will never be the same again. Given the upheavals in Indonesia, it is a timely intervention at the all-important intersection of postcolonial theory and politics.' - Professor David Campbell, Department of Politics, University of Newcastle