Lost in mall : : an ethnography of middle-class Jakarta in the 1990s / / Lizzy van Leeuwen.
In the 1980's, sensational stories about an 'emerging new middle class' popped up simultaneously in the streets of Jakarta and at conferences of hopeful Indonesia watchers. Businesspeople and professionals had profited from President Suharto's rapid economic success, and were all...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;
255 Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 255. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- I: Bintarese cosmologies
- II: Scenes of suburban family life
- III: ‘Bring Boldoot!’ – Mayhem, misery and the middle class
- IV: Celebrating civil society in the shopping malls
- V: Climate control, class and the nation
- VI: Tear gas for Christmas
- Conclusion
- Glossary and abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index.