Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2000
ISBN 10: 0333761111 ISBN 13: 9780333761113
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
xx + 234pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket trifle shelf worn, a very good hardback copy. "Authoritarianism, power, domination and political identity in 1990s Indonesia are examined here. The author seeks to clarify the relationship between knowledge and "real" politics. Authoritarianism, power, domination and political identity in 1990s Indonesia are examined here. The author seeks to clarify the relationship between knowledge and "real" politics. Drawing upon the thought of Edward Said and Michel Foucault, he argues that understandings of Indonesian political life are profoundly shaped by particular approaches to culture, tradition, ethnicity, Cold War politics and modernity. Power, domination and the effects of authoritarianism on identity are key areas of discussion in this analysis of Indonesia and the study of its politics." (Publisher's description).