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Nine eminent political scientists and historians have presented essays here to honor George Kahin, the founder of Cornell's Southeast Program. They honor Kahin by addressing a topic central to his writings--the sources and sustaining forces of modern Indonesia--and by pursuing in their respective studies the myriad ways the state has been shaped. As a scholar and educator (several contributors have been students or colleagues of his), Kahin encouraged creative, inter-disciplinary approaches. Appropriately, the essays collected here cover a diverse range of subjects that are nicely framed and historically situated in McVey's introduction. One important feature of Indonesian modernity--and one central to scholarship--concerns the conditions and possibilities of mass political mobilization. Anderson's essay explores how the nation was first imagined at the beginning of the century. Specifically, he proposes that the growth of multilingualism effectively "de-sacralized" the traditional (and monolingual) Javanese universe; and he makes the point, by showing how, that newspapers spoke to their audiences. To the extent the newspapers spoke for them is another matter. Both Harvey's and McVey's contributions explore this side of nationalism's imaginings, i.e., the process of making the nation a salient idea in people's lives. Harvey examines the organizational capacity and orientation of the Vietnamese and Indonesian leadership at the time of their respective independence struggles.
Approximate Word count = 801
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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