ABSTRACT The four essays in this special section feature recent work in South East Asian architectural and urban history that de-centres the nation-state as the primary subject of history by disclosing what has been excluded from or hidden in the grand narratives of nationalism. Responding to calls to move away from the geographical boundedness of Area Studies while stimulating interdisciplinary dialogue, it positions the built environment as a common archive used by scholars across disciplines to examine the buildings and spaces that accompany and structure everyday life. Infrastructure, informal settlements and ephemeral shrines occupy the attention of these scholars, while palaces and monuments – the privileged architectural leitmotifs of progress and development – are read against the grain to disclose their hidden violence. Together, they point not only to the cultural diversity of South East Asia that lies hidden beneath the veneer of the nation-state, but also open up new ways of studying the complex relations that underlie the seemingly solid facades of the built environment.

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现代性的其他

摘要 本专题中的四篇文章以东南亚建筑和城市史的近期作品为特色，通过揭示被排除在或隐藏在民族主义宏大叙事中的东西，使民族国家不再是历史的主要主题。响应呼吁摆脱区域研究的地理界限，同时激发跨学科对话，它将建筑环境定位为跨学科学者使用的共同档案，以检查伴随和构成日常生活的建筑物和空间。基础设施、非正式住区和短暂的神殿占据了这些学者的注意力，而宫殿和纪念碑——进步和发展的特权建筑主题——被反其道而行之，以揭示它们隐藏的暴力。一起，