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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806225803321

Autore

Knörr Jacqueline <1960->

Titolo

Creole identity in postcolonial Indonesia / / Jacqueline Knörr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78238-269-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Integration and Conflict Studies ; ; Volume 9

Disciplina

305.8009598/22

Soggetti

Ethnicity - Indonesia - Jakarta

Creoles - Indonesia - Jakarta - Ethnic identity

Creoles - Indonesia - Jakarta - Social conditions

Postcolonialism - Indonesia - Jakarta

Ethnic conflict - Indonesia - Jakarta

Jakarta (Indonesia) Ethnic relations

Jakarta (Indonesia) Social conditions

Jakarta (Indonesia) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Creole Identity in Postcolonial Context; Chapter 2 - Jakarta, Batavia, Betawi; Chapter 3 - Orang Betawi versus Orang Jakarta; Chapter 4 - Suku bangsa Betawi: Integration and Differentiation of Ethnic Identity; Chapter 5 - Betawi versus Peranakan (Chinese); Chapter 6 - Orang Betawi versus Orang Indonesia: The Connection between Ethnic Diversity and National Unity; Chapter 7 - Betawi Politics of Identity and Difference; Conclusion - Towards an Open End; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In



this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the