num_pages: 237
description: Nation-building and the construction of citizenship so often conductedor coercedfrom the center are all too commonly studied from the center as well. This book moves the view of cultural citizenship to the peripheryspecifically to the perspective of hinterland groups in Indonesia the Philippines and Sarawak East Malaysiato show that notions of nationhood and citizenship are not given but created in dialogue between the state and local communities.Written by an emergent generation of anthropologists these essays address the question of how the identities of peoples whose lives are marginal to the modern nation-state have nonetheless been shaped by the impingement of the nation-state on their worlds. Together these essays make a powerful contribution to understanding how cultural diversity in some parts of Southeast Asia has been reconfigured as modern states have promoted distinctive and powerfully-backed imaginings of nations.
language: English
title: Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands
publisher: University of California Press