Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia: Through the Lens of the Japanese Wartime Empire

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Diana S. Kim (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia

Through the Lens of the Japanese Wartime Empire

Diana S. Kim (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

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Cambridge University Press
17 April 2025

Constitution: government & the state

Series: Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia

This Element explores the significance of the Japanese wartime empire's occupation of Southeast Asia during World War Two for understanding the region's colonial legacies. It conceptualizes the occupation as a critical juncture that mediated the survival of American and European colonial institutions, and comparatively describes how, between 1940 and 1945, a wide variety of formal institutions for governing territories and people operated under the Japanese, who selectively kept or changed the existing arrangements of their Western predecessors, while sometimes introducing new ones altogether. The Japanese occupation, as such, generated different processes for transmitting pre-1940 colonial institutions into postwar and independent Southeast Asia. Building on new histories of the occupation, this Element offers an analytical framework that helps social scientists specify the mechanisms through which the long-run consequences of colonial institutions obtain in the context of Southeast Asia, while grappling more generally with what constitutes a meaningful rupture to historical continuity.

By: Diana S. Kim (Georgetown University Washington DC)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009671484
ISBN 10: 1009671480
Series: Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
Pages: 75
Publication Date: 17 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Introduction; 2. Two overviews of the Japanese wartime empire across Southeast Asia, 1940−1945; 3. Varieties of wartime institutions; 4. Conclusion; References.