UID:
almahu_9949703209602882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 242 pages) :
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color illustrations, 1 mappages.
ISBN:
9789004263437
Series Statement:
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde, v. 292
Content:
The post-1998 surge in local politics has moved the provincial town back to centre stage. This book examines the Indonesian middle class (now 43%!) up close in the place where its members are most at home: the town. Middle Indonesia generates national political forces, yet it is neither particularly rich nor geographically central. This is an overwhelmingly lower middle class, a conservative petty bourgeoisie barely out of poverty and tied to the state. Middle Indonesia rather resists than welcomes globalized, open markets. Politically, it enjoys democracy but uses its political skills and clientelistic networks to make the system work to its advantage, which is not necessarily that of either the national elites or the poor. Contributors include Ward Berenschot, Joseph Errington, Noorhaidi Hasan, Gerry van Klinken, Cornelis Lay, Wenty Marina Minza, Jan Newberry, Amalinda Savirani, Sylvia Tidey, Nicolaas Warouw, and Ben White. Photographs by S. Chris Brown. Full text (Open Access)
Note:
Preliminary Material /
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Introduction: Democracy, Markets and the Assertive Middle /
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Betting on the Middle? Middletown, Mojokuto and 'Middle Indonesia' /
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Working Class Revisited: Class Relations in Indonesian Provincial Towns /
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Class Mobil: Circulation of Children in the Making of Middle Indonesia /
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Ethnicity and Young People's Work Aspirations in Pontianak /
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Resisting Reforms: The Persistence of Patrimonialism in Pekalongan's Construction Sector /
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Growing up in Kupang /
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Between the Global and the Local: Negotiating Islam and Democracy in Provincial Indonesia /
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In Search of Middle Indonesian: Linguistic Dynamics in a Provincial Town /
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Bibliography /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Klinken, Gerry van. In Search of Middle Indonesia : Middle Classes in Provincial Towns. Leiden : BRILL, ©2014 ISBN 9789004263000
Language:
English
Keywords:
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