From Rebellion to Riots : Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo Paperback / softback
by Jamie Davidson, Alfred W. McCoy
Part of the New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
From Rebellion to Riots is a critical analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan.
Since the late 1960s, this province has suffered periodic outbreaks of ethnic violence among its Dayak, Malay, Madurese, and ethnic Chinese populations.
Citing evidence from his research, internal military documents, and ethnographic accounts, Jamie S.
Davidson refutes popular explanations for these flare-ups.
The recurrent violence has less to do with a clash of cultures, the ills of New Order - led development, or indigenous marginalization than with the ongoing politicization of ethnic and indigenous identity in the region.Looking at key historical moments, markedly different in their particulars, Davidson reveals the important links between ethnic violence and subnational politics.
In one case, army officers in Soeharto's recently established New Order regime encouraged anti-Chinese sentiments.
To move against communist-inspired rebellion, they recruited indigenous Dayaks to expunge tens of thousands of ethnic Chinese from interior towns and villages.This counter-insurgent bloodshed inadvertently initiated a series of clashes between Dayaks and Madurese, another migrant community.
Driven by an indigenous empowerment movement and efforts by local elites to control benefits provided by decentralization and democratization, these low-intensity riots rose to immense proportions in the late 1990s. ""From Rebellion to Riots"" demonstrates that the endemic violence in this vast region is not the inevitable outcome of its ethnic diversity, and reveals that the initial impetus for collective bloodshed is not necessarily the same as the forces that sustain it.
Information
-
Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 11 b/w illustrations, 4 maps, 2 tables
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780299225841
Other Formats
- Hardback from £60.00
Information
-
Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 11 b/w illustrations, 4 maps, 2 tables
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780299225841
