The Divergent Nation of Indonesia Heterogeneous Imaginings in Jakarta, Kupang, and Banda Aceh /
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| Summary: | XI, 162 p. 6 illus., 4 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer,
2020.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Series: | Asia in Transition,
9 |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4242-8 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Table of Contents:
- 1 On Imagining a Nation
- 1.1 Emphasis on homogeneity and elites in the study of nationhood
- 1.2 Prevalence of homogeneous elite point of views in Indonesian Studies
- 1.3 Towards Heterogeneous Constructions of Everyday Nationhood
- 1.3.1 The construction of the nation
- 1.3.2 Standpoint Theory and Situated Imagining
- 1.4 Organisation of the book
- References
- 2 Nationalism and the Making of Indonesian Subjects
- 2.1 Precursors to Independence
- 2.2 Independent Indonesia as a Unitary State
- 2.2.1 Nation-building Narratives: Majapahit, The Youth Pledge and Pancasila
- 2.2.2. Early Challenges in Nation-Building
- 2.2.3 Guided Democracy and the end of the Sukarno’s administration
- 2.3 The New Order: Stabilization and Homogenization
- 2.3.1 Military Style Homogenization
- 2.3.2 Education as the site of indoctrination
- 2.3.3 Building the national cultural identity
- 2.3.4 Uneven belongingness to Indonesia
- 2.3.5 The beginning of the end
- 2.4 The reform period
- 2.4.1 Decentralization
- 2.4.2 Gus Dur, Megawati, and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
- 2.5 Conclusion
- References
- 3.Methodology
- 3.1 The research sites: Jakarta, Kupang, and Banda Aceh
- 3.2 Methodological challenges
- 3.3 The Photo Elicitation Interview method
- 3.4 Selection of photographs and the interview process
- 3.4.1 Photographs used in the interviews
- 3.5 Note on analysis
- References
- 4.Imagining “Indonesia” from Jakarta
- 4.1 The Socio-Historical Context of Jakarta
- 4.2 The Inward Gaze: Building a chain of equivalence from diversity and disparity
- 4.2.1 The nationalization and essentialization of regional cultures
- 4.2.2 Politically and economically dependent periphery
- 4.2.3 The regions as negative space
- 4.3 The Outward Gaze
- 4.3.1 The Antagonistic Other: Malaysia
- 4.3.2 The Desirable Other: Affluent and Developed Countries
- References
- 5 Indonesia from the periphery: Imagining “Indonesia” in Kupang
- 5.1The Socio-Historical Context of Kupang
- 5.2 The Inward Gaze: Coexistence of Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Discourses
- 5.2.1 Reproductions of hegemonic narratives
- 5.2.2. Inhabiting the Negative Space: Do you know where Kupang is?
- 5.2.3 Questioning Hegemonic Meanings of “Culture” and “Diversity”
- 5.2.4 A Pragmatic Belongingness to the Nation
- 5.3 The Outward gaze: The absence of the international world as the Other
- 5.4 Summary and Conclusion
- References
- 6 Deconstructing “Indonesia” in Banda Aceh
- 6.1 The Socio-Historical Context of Banda Aceh
- 6.2 The Inward Gaze
- 6.2.1 Inhibiting the Negative Space: Aceh culture versus Indonesian culture
- 6.2.2 Two Perceptions on Aceh's Integration with Indonesia
- 6.3 The Outward Gaze: Aceh and the World
- 6.4 Summary and Conclusion
- References
- 7 Heterogeneous constructions of the nation: theoretical and practical implications
- 7.1 Plural imaginings from below: the centre and the peripheries
- 7.2. Multiple modes of Otherness
- 7.3 Multiple centers, plural dominant discourses
- 7.4 The nation as “regularity in dispersion”
- 7.5 The future of Indonesia as a common project?.