The divergent nation of Indonesia : heterogeneous imaginings in Jakarta, Kupang, and Banda Aceh /: heterogeneous imaginings in Jakarta, Kupang, and Banda Aceh. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stefani Nugroho.
• Authors: Nugroho, Stefani
• 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 Sukarnos 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 -- 5.1 The Socio-Historical Conte xt 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?.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 959.804; Nationalism -- Indonesia; Indonesia -- Intellectual life; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811542428; 9811542422
• Related ISBNs: 9811542414; 9789811542411
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2020).
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