1st Edition

Political Representation in Indonesia The Emergence of the Innovative Technocrats

By Michael Hatherell Copyright 2019
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses the transformation of political representation in contemporary Indonesia to argue the need to better understand how political representatives use claims to engage in storytelling about themselves and the community they represent. By adopting a new approach that focuses on the cultural and performative aspects of representation and draws on a substantive evidence base of... Read more

1 Ideas, Narratives and Political Representation  2 Tools for Analysing Political Representation  3 The First Innovative Technocrat: Jokowi  4 The Expanding Repertoire: Risma and Ahok  5 Innovation: Ridwan Kamil and Nurdin Abdullah  6 Ideational Power and Indonesian Politics  7 The Innovative Technocrats in Context

Biography

Michael Hatherell is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies at Deakin University, Australia, and is currently on secondment at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies (CDSS), Canberra ACT, Australia.