A Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology

Price, Rohan

ISBN 10: 9629374498 / ISBN 13: 9789629374495

Published by City University of Hong Kong Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology
• Publisher: City University of Hong Kong Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9629374498
• ISBN 13: 9789629374495
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948–1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisation of British Malaya by forcing its colonial administration to invent Malay nationalism and pursue ameliorative social policy among the Chinese diaspora community in a manner clearly derived from the Party’s platform. Yet this was not the same as giving the country economic emancipation from the expectations of neo-colonial rule.Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology entertains no warm colonial memories of the cold war years. Confirming Price’s reputation as a plain-speaking critic of Empire apologia, this book asks how colonial ideology was considered to be beneath Europe, yet desperately needed by it. Using an Althusserian assumption, the book begs the question: if a late colonial state was subjective, then how did it claim a sufficiently objective mantle to rule and how did ideological techniques enable this?

About the Author

Rohan B. E. Price is a Lecturer at the School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University, Australia..