Identifying with freedom : Indonesia after Suharto / edited by Tony Day.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Day, Tony, editor.

Series:

Critical interventions ; v. 9.

Critical interventions : a forum for social analysis ; volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indonesia--Politics and government--1998-.

Indonesia.

Indonesia--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2007]

Summary:

Indonesia, a huge secular, archipelagic nation-state in Southeast Asia, is one of the world's newest democracies. Yet little is known to outsiders about this complex and fascinating country, the home of the world's largest Muslim community and the scene of recent natural disasters and violent communal struggles. Eleven scholars provide incisive critical appraisals of the leading issues and controversies facing Indonesians as they seek to build a democratic nation that is tolerant of multicultural diversity and free from imperial domination.

Contents:

Introduction : identifying with freedom / Tony Day

Gay and lesbian Indonesians and the idea of the nation / Tom Boellstorff

Democracy, polygamy, and women in post-reformasi Indonesia / Suzanne Brenner

Islamic influences on Indonesian feminism / Kathryn Robinson

Going 'un-native' in Indonesia(n) / Joseph Errington

Indonesian publishing : new freedoms, old warriors, and unfinished democratic reform / Michael Nieto Garcia

'New barbarism' or Old Agency among the Dayak? : reflections on post-Soeharto ethnic violence in Kalimantan / Michael R. Dove

Vigilantes and the state / Joshua Barker

The ironies of instability in Indonesia / Dan Stater

Indonesia seen by outside insiders : its Chinese alters in transnational soace / Donald M. Nonini

Indonesians in asylum /Loren Ryter.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781845454050

1845454057

9781782387459

1782387455

OCLC:

949275871