Exhibition (de)Tour: A Fertile Land for the Taking: Conquest and Appropriation of Southeast Asia during the age of Colonial Capitalism with Dr Farish Ahmad Noor
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Exhibition (de)Tour: A Fertile Land for the Taking: Conquest and Appropriation of Southeast Asia during the age of Colonial Capitalism with Dr Farish Ahmad Noor
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14 Sep 2016, Wed 7:30pm - 9:00pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
βIn an age of near-global commodification, how do we study cultural and ethnic difference, and how do we navigate the complicated map of plural multiculturalism?β β Dr Farish Ahmad Noor
In this talk, Dr Farish Ahmad Noor will engage with the history of Southeast Asia. He will speak about how the colonial imaginary envisioned Southeast Asia as a land of boundless opportunities for capital, and thus regarded it as a fertile zone for conquest and appropriation, bringing the colonial enterprise within the ambit of a modernist-instrumentalist mindset.
This Exhibition (de)Tour is part of the public programme of Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest.
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2016-09-14
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In this talk, Dr Farish Ahmad Noor will engage with the history of Southeast Asia. He will speak about how the colonial imaginary envisioned Southeast Asia as a land of boundless opportunities for capital, and thus regarded it as a fertile zone for conquest and appropriation, bringing the colonial enterprise within the ambit of a modernist-instrumentalist mindset.
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General
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Onsite (CCA)
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“Exhibition (de)Tour: A Fertile Land for the Taking: Conquest and Appropriation of Southeast Asia during the age of Colonial Capitalism with Dr Farish Ahmad Noor,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/2280.
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This Item | Is Part Of | Item: Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik/Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur |
Item: Farish Ahmad Noor | Is Part Of | This Item |