Activist archives : youth culture and the political past in Indonesia / Doreen Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Doreen, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College students--Political activity--Indonesia.

College students.

College students--Political activity.

Indonesia.

Student movements--Indonesia.

Student movements.

Indonesia--Politics and government--1998-.

Politics and government.

Nationalism--Indonesia.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

xvii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In Activist Archives Doreen Lee tells the origins, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end the thirty-two-year dictatorship in May 1998. Lee situates the revolt as the most recent manifestation of student activists claiming a political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of politicized youth. Combining historical and ethnographic analysis of "Generation 98," Lee offers rich depictions of the generational structures, nationalist sentiments, and organizational and private spaces that bound these activists together. She examines the ways the movement shaped new and youthful ways of looking, seeing, and being-found in archival documents from the 1980s and 1990s; the connections between politics and place; narratives of state violence; activists' experimental lifestyles; and the uneven development of democratic politics on and off the street. Lee illuminates how the interaction between official history, collective memory, and performance came to define youth citizenship and resistance in Indonesia's transition to the post-Suharto present. Book jacket.

Contents:

Pemuda fever

Archive

Street

Style

Violence

Home

Democracy

A return to form.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822361527

0822361523

9780822361718

082236171X

9780822374091

0822374099

OCLC:

918590888