ISBN:
978-90-04-26300-0
,
978-90-04-26343-7
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 242 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde volume 292
Series Statement:
Power and Place in Southeast Asia volume 292
Keywords:
Indonesien Mittelklasse
;
Soziale Klasse
;
Ethnizität
;
Stadt
;
Stadtforschung, ethnologische
;
Demokratie
;
Sozialer Aspekt
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
;
Kind
;
Kindheit
;
Kupang 〈Stadt, Indonesien〉
Abstract:
The post-1998 surge in local politics has moved the provincial town back to centre stage. This book examines the Indonesian middle class (now 43%!) up close in the place where its members are most at home: the town. Middle Indonesia generates national political forces, yet it is neither particularly rich nor geographically central. This is an overwhelmingly lower middle class, a conservative petty bourgeoisie barely out of poverty and tied to the state. Middle Indonesia rather resists than welcomes globalized, open markets. Politically, it enjoys democracy but uses its political skills and clientelistic networks to make the system work to its advantage, which is not necessarily that of either the national elites or the poor. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
About the authors -- Preface -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Class -- Part 2. The state -- Part 3. Everyday culture -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 221-237
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