The Making of Middle Indonesia

Middle Classes in Kupang Town, 1930s-1980s
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26508-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 293/5, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Power and Place in Southeast Asia

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.

Zielgruppe

The book should be of interest to students of Asian history, in particular those reading about state formation, democratization, political integration and urbanization (political geography, urban anthropology, historical sociology).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klinken, Gerry van

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Gerry van Klinken is senior researcher at KITLV, Leiden, and professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on twentieth century Indonesia, including In Search of Middle Indonesia (edited with Ward Berenschot, 2014).