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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140261603321

Autore

Klinken Geert Arend van

Titolo

The Making of middle Indonesia : middle classes in Kupang town, 1930s-1980s / / by Gerry van Klinken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2014

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2014

ISBN

90-04-26542-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 300 pages ) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; ; v. 293

Power and place in Southeast Asia ; ; v. 5

Disciplina

305.5/50959868

Soggetti

Middle class - Indonesia - Kupang (Nusa Tenggara Timur)

City and town life - Indonesia - Kupang (Nusa Tenggara Timur)

City and town life

Economic history

Middle class

Social conditions

Kupang (Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia) Social conditions

Kupang (Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia) Economic conditions

Indonesia Kupang (Nusa Tenggara Timur)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Some Hidden Strength -- A Historical Synthesis -- A Researcher’s Notes -- Betting on the Rajas (1930s) -- Elite Brokers (1934–1950) -- Authority (1950s–1970s) -- The Seductress (1955–1965) -- The Gatekeeper (1950s–1970s) -- The Making of Middle Indonesia (1962–1965) -- A Killing Town (1965–1967) -- Consolidating Middle Indonesia (1966–1986) -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

What holds Indonesia together? 'A strong leader' is the answer most often given. This book looks instead at a middle level of society. Middle classes in provincial towns around the vast archipelago mediate between the state and society and help to constitute state power. 'Middle Indonesia' is a social zone connecting extremes. The Making of



Middle Indonesia examines the rise of an indigenous middle class in one provincial town far removed from the capital city. Spanning the late colonial to early New Order periods, it develops an unusual, associational notion of political power. 'Soft' modalities of power included non-elite provincial people in the emerging Indonesian state. At the same time, growing inequalities produced class tensions that exploded in violence in 1965-1966.