Activist Archives

Activist Archives

Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia

  • Auteur: Lee, Doreen
  • Éditeur: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822361527
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822374091
  • Lieu de publication:  Durham , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2016
  • Mois : Avril
  • Pages: 296
  • Langue: Anglais
In Activist Archives Doreen Lee tells the origins, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end the thirty-two-year dictatorship in May 1998. Lee situates the revolt as the most recent manifestation of student activists claiming a political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of politicized youth. Combining historical and ethnographic analysis of "Generation 98," Lee offers rich depictions of the generational structures, nationalist sentiments, and organizational and private spaces that bound these activists together. She examines the ways the movement shaped new and youthful ways of looking, seeing, and being—found in archival documents from the 1980s and 1990s; the connections between politics and place; narratives of state violence; activists' experimental lifestyles; and the uneven development of democratic politics on and off the street. Lee illuminates how the interaction between official history, collective memory, and performance came to define youth citizenship and resistance in Indonesia’s transition to the post-Suharto present. 
 
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note about Names
  • Introduction: Pemuda Fever
  • Chapter 1: Archive
  • Chapter 2: Street
  • Chapter 3: Style
  • Chapter 4: Violence
  • Chapter 5: Home
  • Chapter 6: Democracy
  • Conclusion: A Return to Form
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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