Spyer Orphaned Landscapes

Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8232-9871-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

This book examines the proliferation of monumental Christian street art in a Muslim/Christian conflict to show how ephemeral phenomena are inherent to sociopolitical change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spyer, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance 1
Image, Appearance, Figuration, 8 • A Christian
Town, 11 • The Appearance of Crisis, 15 • Matters
of Perception, 18 • Orphaning the Nation, 20 •
Orphaned Landscapes, 23 • A Symptomatology
of Crisis, 28

1 Fire without Smoke 33
War’s Fog, 36 • Fire without Smoke, 40 • The Thick
of Things, 45 • Soundtracks of War, 52 • Amplifications, 54 •
Anticipatory Practices, 58 • Official Peace, 63

2 Christ at Large 67
Christ at Large, 76 • The Canon in the Street, 79 •
Guardians of the Neighborhood, 88 • Streetwise
Masculinity, 96 • This Face Wants you, 104 • Sighting
the Street, 109

3 Images without Borders 113
Painting Christianity, 116 • Landscape I: Christian Enclave,
127 • Landscape II: Pancasila Jesus, 132 • Landscape III:

Sidewalk Citizenship, 136 • Landscape IV: Witnessing
the End-Time, 146 • Frames at War, 152 • A Frenzy
of the Visible, 154

4 Religion under the Sign of Crisis 157
Times Rich in Demons, 158 • Conversion’s Unstable
Alchemy, 161 • Religion under the Sign of Crisis, 163 •
Simplifications, 166 • Terms of Coexistence, 170 •
Symptomatology: Treacherous Things, 176 • Symptomatology:

Treacherous Persons, 180 • Neighbors and Neighborhoods, 184

5 Provoking Peace 191
Spectacles of Reconciliation, 193 • The Child in the Picture,
199 • Peace Journalism, 214 • Scrolling for Peace, 222

Conclusion: Ephemeral Mediations 229

Acknowledgments 233
Notes 239
Works Cited 281
Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

Spyer, Patricia
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 co-edited 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).

Spyer Patricia:
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 co-edited 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).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 co-edited 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).