Overview
Challenges ethnocentricity found within current scholarly work on citizenship in Europe and North America
Enlarges the current debate about citizenship beyond its western preoccupation by including the postcolonial world
Addresses issues of institutional fragility, political violence, as well as legitimacy and aspirations to freedom in non-western cultures
Includes a detailed history of a small provincial town in Indonesia from the late colonial period through to the post-1965
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Citizenship in postcolonial Indonesia
- State formation in postcolonial
- Maumere and Anti-Communist Movement
- Factionalism and patronage in Indonesia
- Republican activism in Maumere, Indonesia
- Colonialism in Indonesia
- Decolonisation in Indonesia
- Jan Djong
- Postcolonial Citizenship in Indonesia
- Postcolonial Citizenship in Asia
- Communists in Sikka
- Military Politics in Indonesia
- Communists in postcolonial Indonesia
- Decentralised despotism in Indonesia
- citizenship
About this book
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.
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Book Title: Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia
Authors: Gerry van Klinken
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6725-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6724-3Published: 18 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6725-0Published: 09 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 152
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations
Topics: Terrorism and Political Violence, Asian History, Political History, Citizenship