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The Divergent Nation of Indonesia

Heterogeneous Imaginings in Jakarta, Kupang, and Banda Aceh

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  1. Stefani Nugroho

    1. Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

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  • The first book to deal with the heterogeneity of 'the imagined community' in the context of Indonesia
  • Examines the centre-periphery relations of Indonesia in the post-authoritarian period
  • Expands on the debate in nation studies between macro- and the micro-perspectives by looking at their points of encounter

Part of the book series: Asia in Transition (AT, volume 9)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. On Imagining a Nation

    • Stefani Nugroho
    Pages 1-18

  3. Nationalism and the Making of Indonesian Subjects

    • Stefani Nugroho
    Pages 19-47

  4. Methodology

    • Stefani Nugroho
    Pages 49-65

  5. Imagining “Indonesia” from Jakarta

    • Stefani Nugroho
    Pages 67-88

  6. Indonesia from the Periphery: Imagining “Indonesia” in Kupang

    • Stefani Nugroho
    Pages 89-108

  7. Deconstructing “Indonesia” in Banda Aceh

    • Stefani Nugroho
    Pages 109-125

  8. Heterogeneous Constructions of the Nation: Theoretical and Practical Implications

    • Stefani Nugroho
    Pages 127-144

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 145-162
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About this book

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.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

    Stefani Nugroho

About the author

Stefani H.S. Nugroho is currently an assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology, Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta, Indonesia. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and a Fulbright-Scholar-in-Residence at Santa Fe College, US. She obtained her doctoral degree in sociology from the National University of Singapore. Her research interest revolves around the discursive constructions of the nation particularly in the postcolonial context or among minorities.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Divergent Nation of Indonesia

  • Book Subtitle: Heterogeneous Imaginings in Jakarta, Kupang, and Banda Aceh

  • Authors: Stefani Nugroho

  • Series Title: Asia in Transition

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4242-8

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4241-1Published: 29 July 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4244-2Published: 30 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-4242-8Published: 28 July 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2364-8252

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-8260

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 162

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Political Sociology, Knowledge - Discourse, Development and Post-Colonialism, Asian Politics, Asian Culture

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