Rethinking Power Relations in Indonesia

Transforming the Margins

Michaela Haug, Martin Rössler, Anna-Teresa Grumblies (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

164 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-96278-1 (ISBN)

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This book explores processes of political, economic and cultural transformations in Indonesia, emphasizing their implications for centre-periphery relations from the perspective of the archipelago’s ‘margins’. It fills a gap in the literature by analysing the implications of the recent transformation processes for the construction of marginality on Indonesia’s Outer Islands.

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 political, economic and cultural transformations in Indonesia, emphasizing their implications for centre-periphery relations from the perspective of the archipelago’s ‘margins’. Structured along three central themes, the book first provides theoretical contributions to the understanding of marginality in Indonesia. The second part focuses on political transformation processes and their implications for the Outer Islands. The third section investigates the dynamics caused by economic changes on Indonesia’s periphery.

Chapters writtten by experts in the field offer examples from various regions, which demonstrate how power relations between centre and periphery are getting challenged, contested and reshaped. The book fills a gap in the literature by analysing the implications of the recent transformation processes for the construction of marginality on Indonesia’s Outer Islands.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-138-96278-3 / 1138962783
ISBN-13	978-1-138-96278-1 / 9781138962781
Zustand	Neuware