Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia by Spyer, Patricia
Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia by Spyer, Patricia

Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia

Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ...
CHF 72.88
CHF 72.88
SKU: 9780823298693
Product Type: Books
Please hurry! Only 402 left in stock
Author: Patricia Spyer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: CHF 72.88
10 customers are viewing this product
Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia by Spyer, Patricia

Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia

CHF 72.88
Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia by Spyer, Patricia

Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia

CHF 72.88
Author: Patricia Spyer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and other Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town in eastern Indonesia where conflict had arisen between Muslims and Christians. A manifestation of the extreme perception that emerged amid uncertainty and the challenge to seeing brought on by urban warfare, the street paintings erected by Protestant motorbike-taxi drivers signaled a radical departure from the aniconic tradition of the old colonial church, a desire to be seen and recognized by political authorities from Jakarta to the UN and European Union, an aim to reinstate the Christian look of a city in the face of the country's widespread islamicization, and an opening to a more intimate relationship to the divine through the bringing-into-vision of the Christian god.

Stridently assertive, these affectively charged mediations of religion, masculinity, Christian privilege and subjectivity are among the myriad ephemera of war, from rumors, graffiti, incendiary pamphlets, and Video CDs, to Peace Provocateur text-messages and children's reconciliation drawings. Orphaned Landscapes theorizes the production of monumental street art and other visual media as part of a wider work on appearance in which ordinary people, wittingly or unwittingly, refigure the aesthetic forms and sensory environment of their urban surroundings. The book offers a rich, nuanced account of a place in crisis, while also showing how the work on appearance, far from epiphenomenal, is inherent to sociopolitical change. Whether considering the emergence and disappearance of street art or the atmospherics and fog of war, Spyer demonstrates the importance of an attunement to elusive, ephemeral phenomena for their palpable and varying effects in the world.

Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.

Author: Patricia Spyer
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 11/02/2021
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780823298693


Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2022

About the Author
Patricia Spyer is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. She is the author of The Memory of Trade: Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island (Duke, 2000). She has also edited and coedited a number of books, including Images That Move (SAR Press, 2013), Handbook of Material Culture (Sage, 2006, pbk 2013) and Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces (Routledge, 1998).
Shipping & Return

Returns Policy

You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).

You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).

If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.

Shipping

We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.

When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.

Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.

Review

Related Products

Example product title
CHF 72.88
CHF 72.88
Example product title
CHF 72.88
CHF 72.88
Example product title
CHF 72.88
CHF 72.88
Example product title
CHF 72.88
CHF 72.88
Example product title
CHF 72.88
CHF 72.88
Example product title
CHF 72.88
CHF 72.88
Example product title
CHF 72.88
CHF 72.88
Example product title
CHF 72.88
CHF 72.88
Example product title
CHF 72.88
CHF 72.88
Example product title
CHF 72.88
CHF 72.88

Recently Viewed Products