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The Divergent Nation of Indonesia - Heterogeneous Imaginings in Jakarta, Kupang, and Banda Aceh (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Divergent Nation of Indonesia - Heterogeneous Imaginings in Jakarta, Kupang, and Banda Aceh (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Asia in Transition, 9
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This book explores how Indonesia is imagined differently by young
people in the three cities of Jakarta, Kupang and Banda Aceh.
Throughout the course of Indonesia's colonial and postcolonial
history, Jakarta, the capital, has always occupied a central
position, while Kupang in East Nusa Tenggara and Banda Aceh in
Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam are located at the peripheries. The book
analyses the convergences and divergences in how the country is
perceived from these different vantage points, and the implications
for Indonesia, also providing a new perspective to the classic and
contemporary theories of the nation. By examining the heterogeneity
of the imaginings of the nation 'from below', it moves away from
the tendency to focus on the homogeneity of the nation, found in
the classic theories such as Anderson's and Gellner's, as well as
in more recent theories on every day and banal nationalism. Using
the tenets of standpoint theory and Laclau and Mouffe's theory of
hegemony, the nation is acknowledged as an empty signifier that
means different things depending on the positionality of the
perceiving subject. The work appeals to scholars of nation studies
and Asian and Indonesian studies, as well those interested in the
empirical grounding of poststructuralist theories.
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