Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia - Gerry Van Klinken

Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia

Buch | Hardcover
152 Seiten
2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-6724-3 (ISBN)
53,49 inkl. MwSt
This book examines the history of state formation in postcolonial Indonesia by starting with the death of Jan Djong, an activist and a former village head in the little town of Maumere. It historicizes contemporary debates on citizenship in the postcolonial world.

Citizenship has been called the “organizing principle of state-society relations in modern states”. Democratization is today most intense in the non-Western, post-colonial world. Yet “real” citizenship seems largely absent there. Only a few rights-claiming, autonomous, and individualistic citizens celebrated in mainstream literature exist in post-colonial countries.

In reflecting on one concrete story to examine the core dilemmas facing the study of citizenship in postcolonial settings, this book challenges ethnocentricity found within current scholarly work on citizenship in Europe and North America and addresses issues of institutional fragility, political violence, as well as legitimacy and aspirations to freedom in non-Western cultures.

Gerry van Klinken is honorary professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Amsterdam, and at the University of Queensland. He helped coordinate the international research collaboration, From Clients to Citizens? Emerging Citizenship in Democratizing Indonesia.

1. Murder in Maumere.- 2. Raja's rule.- 3. Postcolonial citizens.- 4. Factions and faith.- 5. That chilling moment.- 6. Citizenship and state formation in postcolonial Indonesia.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 35 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 152 p. 35 illus.
Verlagsort Singapore
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10 981-13-6724-8 / 9811367248
ISBN-13 978-981-13-6724-3 / 9789811367243
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