State of Authority : : State in Society in Indonesia / / ed. by Joshua Barker, Gerry Van Klinken.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Barker, Joshua,; Fougeres, Dorian,; Hidayat, Syarif,; Klinken, Gerry van,; Olle, John,; Ryter, Loren,; Simandjuntak, Deasy,; Vel, Jacqueline,
• HerausgeberIn: Barker, Joshua,; Van Klinken, Gerry,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; photos, maps, illustrations

A major realignment is taking place in the way we understand the state in Indonesia. New studies on local politics, ethnicity, the democratic transition, corruption, Islam, popular culture, and other areas hint at novel concepts of the state, though often without fully articulating them. This book captures several dimensions of this shift. One reason for the new thinking is a fresh wind that has altered state studies generally. People are posing new kinds of questions about the state and developing new methodologies to answer them. Another reason for this shift is that Indonesia itself has changed, probably more than most people recognize. It looks more democratic, but also more chaotic and corrupt, than it did during the militaristic New Order of 1966–1998. State of Authority offers a range of detailed case studies based on fieldwork in many different settings around the archipelago. The studies bring to life figures of authority who have sought to carve out positions of power for themselves using legal and illegal means. These figures include village heads, informal slum leaders, district heads, parliamentarians, and others. These individuals negotiate in settings where the state is evident and where it is discussed: coffee houses, hotel lounges, fishing waters, and street-side stalls. These case studies, and the broader trend in scholarship of which they are a part, allow for a new theorization of the state in Indonesia that more adequately addresses the complexity of political life in this vast archipelago nation. State of Authority demonstrates that the state of Indonesia is not monolithic, but is constituted from the ground up by a host of local negotiations and symbolic practices.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Introduction: State in Society in Indonesia -- Reflections on the State in Indonesia -- Negara Beling: Street-Level Authority In An Indonesian Slum -- Milk Coffee at 10 Am: Encountering the State Through Pllkada in North Sumatra -- The Majelis Ulama Indonesia Versus "Heresy": The Resurgence of Authoritarian Islam -- Reading Politics From a Book Of Donations: The Moral Economy of the Political Class in Sumba -- Provincial Business and Politics -- Governing Villages in Indonesia's Coastal Zone -- Their Moment in the Sun: The New Indonesian Parliamentarians from the Old Okp -- Contributors -- Southeast Asia Program Publications