Rethinking Power Relations in Indonesia
Since colonial rule, the island of Java served as Indonesias imagined centre and prime example of development, while the Outer Islands were constructed as the states 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, emphasising their implications for centreperiphery relations from the perspective of the archipelagos 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 part investigates the dynamics caused by economic changes on Indonesias periphery.
Chapters written by experts in the field offer examples from various regions, which demonstrate how power relations between centre and periphery are being 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 Indonesias Outer Islands.
Michaela Haug is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany.
Martin Rssler is Professor at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany.
Anna- Teresa Grumblies is an anthropologist who is currently working for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
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Transforming the margins
Edited by Michaela Haug, Martin Rssler and Anna-Teresa Grumblies
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Decentralization and its impact on the democratization process. Container
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Title: Rethinking power relations in Indonesia : transforming the margins /
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Subjects: LCSH: Central-local government relationsIndonesia. |
Decentralization in governmentIndonesia. | Power (Social sciences)
Indonesia. | Marginality, SocialIndonesia. | IndonesiaPolitics and government1998
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Laurens Bakker is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on land law and land conflict in Southeast Asia, as well as on the influence of informal militias in Southeast Asian local politics, society and economy. His publications include Who Owns the Land? Looking for Law and Power in Reformasi East Kalimantan (Radboud University Nijmegen, 2009) and a wide variety of contributions to edited volumes and journals.
Michael Eilenberg is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University. His research is based on serial field visits to Indonesia and Malaysia from 2002 to 2013 and deals with the particular social and political dynamics taking place along the IndonesianMalaysian border on the island of Borneo. His recent monograph entitled At the Edge of States , first published by KITLV Press (2012) and later reprinted by Brill Academic Publishers (2014), deals with the dynamics of state formation in Southeast Asian borderlands. His recent articles have appeared in Modern Asian Studies , Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power , Journal of Peasant Studies , Journal of Borderland Studies and Asia Pacific Viewpoint .
Anna-Teresa Grumblies studied Social and Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, History and Philosophy at the University of Gttingen and at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and graduated in 2010. Her PhD thesis, which she successfully defended at the University of Cologne, is based on 14 months of field work among the Wana of Central Sulawesi, where she investigated marginalisation processes among upland groups. She is currently working for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
