Rethinking Power Relations in Indonesia: Transforming the Margins

ISBN-13: 9780367874957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 164 str.

Michaela Haug; Martin Rossler; Anna-Teresa Grumblies

Opis

This book explores processes of political, economic and cultural transformations in Indonesia, emphasizing their implications for centre-periphery relations from the perspective of the archipelago’s ‘margins’. It fills a gap in the literature by analysing the implications of the recent transformation processes for the construction of marginality

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Contesting and Reformulating Centre-Periphery Relations in Indonesia

Part One: Basic Issues

2. Decentralization and its Impact on the Democratization Process

3. Conceptualising Marginality in Indonesia

Part Two: Borders, Identities and Belonging

4. The Edge of Glory: Theorising Centre-Periphery Relations in and from Indonesia’s Riau Islands

5. Nested Sovereignties: Autonomy and Authority in the Indonesian Borderlands

6. Redrawing Borders and Reshaping Marginality in North Maluku

Part Three: Resources, Power and Inequality

7. Perceiving Neoliberalism beyond Jakarta

8. Rich Regency – Prosperous People? Decentralisation, Marginality and Remoteness in East Kalimantan

9. Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Michaela Haug is Research Associate at the Institute for Ethnology, University of Cologne, Germany.

Martin Rössler is Professor at the Institute for Ethnology, University of Cologne, Germany

Anna-Teresa Grumblies is a PhD student at the Institute for Ethnology, University of Cologne, Germany.