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Rethinking Power Relations in Indonesia: Transforming the Margins book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking Power Relations in Indonesia Transforming the Margins

Edited By Michaela Haug, Martin Rössler, Anna-Teresa Grumblies Copyright 2017
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Since colonial rule, the island of Java served as Indonesia’s imagined centre and prime example of development, while the Outer Islands were constructed as the state’s marginalised periphery. Recent processes of democratisation and regional autonomy, however, have significantly changed the power relations that once produced the marginality of the Outer Islands. This book explores processes of... Read more

1. Introduction: Contesting and Reformulating Centre-Periphery Relations in Indonesia



Part One: Basic Issues









2. Decentralization and its Impact on the Democratization Process









3. Conceptualising Marginality in Indonesia



Part Two: Borders, Identities and Belonging









4. The Edge of Glory: Theorising Centre-Periphery Relations in and from Indonesia’s Riau Islands









5. Nested Sovereignties: Autonomy and Authority in the Indonesian Borderlands









6. Redrawing Borders and Reshaping Marginality in North Maluku



Part Three: Resources, Power and Inequality









7. Perceiving Neoliberalism beyond Jakarta









8. Rich Regency – Prosperous People? Decentralisation, Marginality and Remoteness in East Kalimantan









9. Concluding Remarks





Biography

Michaela Haug is Research Associate at the Institute for Ethnology, University of Cologne, Germany.



Martin Rössler is Professor at the Institute for Ethnology, University of Cologne, Germany



Anna-Teresa Grumblies is a PhD student at the Institute for Ethnology, University of Cologne, Germany.

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