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Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia

By: Gerry van Klinken

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Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia

By: Gerry van Klinken

This book examines the history of state formation in postcolonial Indonesia by starting with the death of Jan Djong, an activist and a former village head in the little town of Maumere. It historicizes contemporary debates on citizenship in the postcolonial world. Citizenship has been called the “organizing principle of state-society relations in modern states”. Democratization is today most intense in the non-Western, post-colonial world. Yet “real” citizenship seems largely absent there. Only a few rights-claiming, autonomous, and individualistic citizens celebrated in mainstream literature exist in post-colonial countries. In reflecting on one concrete story to examine the core dilemmas facing the study of citizenship in postcolonial settings, this book challenges ethnocentricity found within current scholarly work on citizenship in Europe and North America and addresses issues of institutional fragility, political violence, as well as legitimacy and aspirations to freedom in non-Western cultures.

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166

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Springer

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9811367256

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9789811367250

The Making of Middle Indonesia

Middle Classes in Kupang town, 1930s-1980s

By: Gerry van Klinken

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The Making of Middle Indonesia

Middle Classes in Kupang town, 1930s-1980s

By: Gerry van Klinken

What holds Indonesia together? 'A strong leader' is the answer most often given. This book looks instead at a middle level of society. Middle classes in provincial towns around the vast archipelago mediate between the state and society and help to constitute state power. 'Middle Indonesia' is a social zone connecting extremes. The Making of Middle Indonesia examines the rise of an indigenous middle class in one provincial town far removed from the capital city. Spanning the late colonial to early New Order periods, it develops an unusual, associational notion of political power. 'Soft' modalities of power included non-elite provincial people in the emerging Indonesian state. At the same time, growing inequalities produced class tensions that exploded in violence in 1965-1966.

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318

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BRILL

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9004265422

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9789004265424

Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia

Small Town Wars

By: Gerry van Klinken

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Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia

Small Town Wars

By: Gerry van Klinken

Through close scrutiny of empirical materials and interviews, this book uniquely analyzes all the episodes of long-running, widespread communal violence that erupted during Indonesia’s post-New Order transition. Indonesia democratised after the long and authoritarian New Order regime ended in May 1998. But the transition was far less peaceful than is often thought. It claimed about 10,000 lives in communal (ethnic and religious) violence, and nearly as many as that again in separatist violence in Aceh and East Timor. Taking a comprehensive look at the communal violence that arose after the New Order regime, this book will be of interest to students of Southeast Asian studies, social movements, political violence and ethnicity.

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205

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Routledge

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1134115334

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9781134115334

Radiocarbon Dates

from samples funded by English Heritage under the Aggregates Sustainability Fund 2004-7

By: Alex Bayliss,Christopher Bronk Ramsey,Gordon Cook,Gerry McCormac,Johannes Plicht

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Radiocarbon Dates

from samples funded by English Heritage under the Aggregates Sustainability Fund 2004-7

By: Alex Bayliss,Christopher Bronk Ramsey,Gordon Cook,Gerry McCormac,Johannes Plicht

This volume holds a datelist of 647 radiocarbon determinations carried out between 2004 and 2007 in support of research funded by English Heritage throught the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. It contains supporting information about the samples and the sites which produced them, a comprehensive bibliography, and two indexes for reference and analysis. An introduction provides information about the scientific dating undertaken, and methods used for the analyses reported. Details of technical reports available for programmes of dendrochronology, luminescence dating, and amino-acid racemization funded under this scheme are also provided. The datelist has been collated from information provided by the submitters of samples and the dating laboratories, in order to provide easy access to raw scientific and contextual data which may be used in further research. Many of the sites and projects from which dates have been obtained are in the process of publication. Full references are given to these reports for those requiring further detail.

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