The Divergent Nation of Indonesia: Heterogeneous Imaginings in Jakarta, Kupang, and Banda Aceh 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Nugroho, Stefani (Author) |
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ISBN: 9811542449 ISBN-13: 9789811542442 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science | World - Asian - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.56 lbs) 162 pages |
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Publisher Description: This book explores how Indonesia is imagined differently by young people in the three cities of Jakarta, Kupang and Banda Aceh. Throughout the course of Indonesia's colonial and postcolonial history, Jakarta, the capital, has always occupied a central position, while Kupang in East Nusa Tenggara and Banda Aceh in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam are located at the peripheries. The book analyses the convergences and divergences in how the country is perceived from these different vantage points, and the implications for Indonesia, also providing a new perspective to the classic and contemporary theories of the nation. By examining the heterogeneity of the imaginings of the nation 'from below', it moves away from the tendency to focus on the homogeneity of the nation, found in the classic theories such as Anderson's and Gellner's, as well as in more recent theories on every day and banal nationalism. Using the tenets of standpoint theory and Laclau and Mouffe's theory of hegemony, the nation is acknowledged as an empty signifier that means different things depending on the positionality of the perceiving subject. The work appeals to scholars of nation studies and Asian and Indonesian studies, as well those interested in the empirical grounding of poststructuralist theories. |