Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia

Index

296 Index 296 Abdurrahman Wahid 6 Acting out 36, 40 Alexander, Jeffrey 26 Amnesia 4, 28, 100 collective 263 official 250 politics of 31 technology of 94 see also forgetting Anderson, Benedict 3, 101, 127–8, 287 Australia 37–8, 144, 159, 190, 196, 245 Baddeley, Alan 20 Benjamin, Geoffrey 3, 230 Benjamin, Walter 226 Bloch, Maurice 18 Bosnia 36–7 Browning, Christopher 40 Burma 3, 53–77 Buruma, Ian 31–2, 44 Cambodia 34, 96, 100, 122 Carruthers, Mary 24 China 28, 38–9, 86, 130, 151, 231–4, 238, 240–7, 253–4, 256, 261 Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) 27–8, 34, 41, 45, 243 Climo, Jacob 19, 282 ‘Comfort Women’ 37–8, 40, 185–6, 194, 197 Commemoration 5–8, 32, 281 in Burma 53, 55, 57, 61 in Indonesia 156–7, 159–61, 164–7, 174–6 in Laos 100 in Philippines 188–93 in Singapore 202 in Vietnam 110, 116 Connerton, Paul 11, 202 Contestation 4, 11, 27, 30, 42–3, 57, 73, 75, 157, 243, 287 Conway, Martin 20–1 Counter-memory 25 Cultural trauma, see trauma Debouzy, Marianne 205 Elias, Norbert 23 Estonia 29–30 Fang Lizhi 41 Fentress, James 25, 157–8, 205, 220 Forgetting 2, 4, 11, 25, 28, 83, 121, 156–7, 172, 189, 195 enforced 31, 42 prevention of 33, 159 see also amnesia Foucault, Michel 25, 60, 108, 129, 203 INDEX Index 297 Freud, Sigmund 34–6, 248 Friedländer, Saul 33–4 Gellner, Ernest 3, 128, 130 Goldhagen, Daniel 40 Halbwachs, Maurice 22–4, 157, 202, 218, 226 Hamengkubuwono IX, Sultan of Yogyakarta 6, 156–78 Hiroshima 39, 44, 188 History 2, 4, 6, 8–9, 17, 22–7, 30–1, 42, 85, 106–8, 118–9, 125, 218–9, 247, 251, 272 and identity 26, 42–3, 53–4, 61, 100–1, 119, 125, 202, 207, 226, 233 and morality 2, 37, 39, 41, 112, 138, 157, 177, 208 Burmese 54–77 democratization of 11 Indonesian 156–77 Laotian 83–102 Singapore 125–7, 132–6, 148–51, 205–8, 224 ‘straightening history’ (meluruskan sejarah) (Indonesia) 176 textbooks 9, 12, 39, 41, 90, 97, 176, 195 ‘Technique of Forgetting History’ (China) 41 Vietnamese 109–122 ‘Historians’ Debate’ (Germany) 36 Holocaust 25, 31, 33–4, 36, 38, 40, 43, 284 Indonesia 6, 9–10, 42, 43, 53, 130, 142, 145, 148–9, 151, 242 ‘Confrontation’ with Malaysia (1962–66) 212 fall of Suharto (1998) 9, 30, 176, 270, 274, 284–5, 287–8 Japanese Occupation 153, 188, 198 massacres (1965–6) 270–88 ‘New Order’ 6, 156, 166, 174–5, 271, 273, 288 War for Independence (1945–49) 6, 156–78 Japan 7, 34, 37–41, 43–5, 233, 238, 242 relations with Philippines 185, 187–91, 194–8 Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia 197–8 Kansteiner, Wulf 24–6 Keyes, Charles 25–6 Kleinman, Arthur 27–8 Koizumi, Junichiro 39–40 Kuo Pao Kun 41, 257 LaCapra, Dominique 25, 33–6, 40 Levi, Primo 31, 33, 40 Lieux de mémoire, see memory, sites of Lukacs, John 11 Malaysia 43, 53, 227, 233–5, 242 Independence 5 Japanese Occupation 198 Merger with Singapore (1963) and Separation (1965) 5, 127–52, 206, 208, 212, 215, 217, 233–4 Racial riots (1969) 221–2 Memorials 53, 74, 109, 118, 189–93, 195, 271, 284 298 Index Memory accuracy of 19, 25, 157–8 and censorship 30, 258 and delay 3, 27, 31, 34, 36 and emotion 6, 19, 22, 28, 36, 40–1, 91, 131, 136, 185, 187, 248 and identity 3, 6, 8, 17, 20, 25–6, 31, 35, 43, 126, 205, 256, 281, 286 and ‘working through’ 27, 36, 40, 42 autobiographical 20–1, 202, 224 burden of 10, 248–9, 263 collective 1, 8, 34, 75, 121, 126, 201–3, 205, 219, 223–4, 263 colonial 61, 76–7 dominant 5, 205, 218 embodied 9, 27, 74 episodic 18–21 frameworks of 202, 205, 211 humiliated 285 key 20 national 42, 207–8, 215, 218–20, 223, 273 oral 22, 84, 92, 204 perceptual 20 politics of 36–7, 281 popular 7–8, 121, 195, 199, 201, 217–8, 220, 225 psychological approaches 1, 17–8, 20, 22, 27 revisions of 7, 157 selectivity of 1, 20, 28, 119, 121 semantic 18, 21 silencing of 5, 10, 30, 38, 44, 65, 116, 204, 235, 245, 270, 272, 274–5, 279...