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Title The politics of the periphery in Indonesia : social and geographical perspectives / edited by Minako Sakai, Glenn Banks and J.H. Walker
Published Singapore : NUS Press, [2009]
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Description xvi, 343 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm
Contents State, region and the politics of recognition: towards cosmopolitan models of political integration -- Patrimonialism and feudalism in the Sejarah Melayu (Raffles MS 18) -- Creating a new centre in the periphery of Indonesia: Sumatran Malay identity politics -- Indonesia, Aceh and the modern nation-state -- Problems of integration: West Sumatra's place in Indonesia -- beyond economic imperatives: resources, identity and conflict in the Asia-Pacific -- Social identity and access ro natural resources: ethnicity and regionalism from a maritime perspective -- Violence and the construction of identity: conflict between the dayak and Madurese in Kalimantan, Indonesia -- National legitimacy through a regional prism: local polgrimage and Indonesia's Javanese presidents -- Papuan nationalism: Christianity and ethnicity -- Indonesian Adat communities: promises and challenges of democracy and globalisation -- Chinese Indonesian identities: challenging homogenising discourses -- "More Indonesian than the Indonesians": a Chinese-Indonesian identity -- Indonesian identity after the dictatorship: imagining Chineseness in recent literature and film
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-324) and index
Subject Central-local government relations -- Indonesia.
Decentralization in government -- Indonesia.
SUBJECT Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 1998- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99003241
Author Sakai, Minako, 1963-
Banks, Glenn.
Walker, J. H. (John Henry), 1958-
LC no. 2009323614
ISBN 9789971694791 paperback
9971694794 paperback