The Divergent Nation of Indonesia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Divergent Nation of Indonesia write by Stefani Nugroho. This book was released on 2020-07-28. The Divergent Nation of Indonesia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Social Sciences and National Development
Social Sciences and National Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Sciences and National Development write by Shou-sheng Hsueh. This book was released on 1977. Social Sciences and National Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. -----------
Indonesia
Indonesia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indonesia write by Taufik Abdullah. This book was released on 2009. Indonesia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the beginning of the process of nation-formation, the struggle for independence, the hopeful beginning of the new nation-state of Indonesia only to be followed by hard and difficult ways to remain true to the ideals of independence. In the process Indonesia with its sprawling archipelago and its multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation has to undergo various types of crisis and internal conflicts, but the ideals that have been nurtured since the beginning when a new nation began to be visualized remain intact. Some changes in the interpretation may have taken place and some deviations here and there can be noticed but the literal meaning of the ideals continues to be the guiding light. In short this is a history of a nation in the continuing effort to retain the ideals of its existence.
Indonesia
Indonesia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indonesia write by Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. This book was released on 1993. Indonesia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the history, politics, customs, etc. of India.
New Media and the Nation in Malaysia
New Media and the Nation in Malaysia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Media and the Nation in Malaysia write by Susan Leong. This book was released on 2013-10-08. New Media and the Nation in Malaysia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the four decades or so since its invention, the internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological advancement improves their nation’s socio-economic conditions, they also worry about its cultural and political effects. This book examines how this set of dynamics operates through its study of new media in contemporary Malaysian society. Using the social imaginary framework and adopting a socio-historical approach, the book explains the varied understandings of new media as a continuing process wherein individuals and their societies operate in tandem to create, negotiate and enact the meaning ascribed to concepts and ideas. In doing so, it also highlights the importance of non-users to national technological policies. Through its examination of the ideation and development of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor mega project to-date and reference to the seminal socio-political events of 2007-2012 including the 2008 General Elections, Bersih and Hindraf rallies, this book provides a clear explanation for new media’s prominence in the multi-ethnic and majority Islamic society of Malaysia today. It is of interest to academics working in the field of Media and Internet Studies and Southeast Asian Politics.
