Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia by Doreen L

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Doreen Lee tells the origin, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end Suharto's thirty-two year dictatorship in May of 1998, showing how student activists claimed their rich political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of activist youth.

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In Activist Archives Doreen Lee tells the origins, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end the thirty-two-year dictatorship in May 1998. Lee situates the revolt as the most recent manifestation of student activists claiming a political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of politicized youth. Combining historical and ethnographic analysis of "Generation 98," Lee offers rich depictions of the generational structures, nationalist sentiments, and organizational and private spaces that bound these activists together. She examines the ways the movement shaped new and youthful ways of looking, seeing, and being-found in archival documents from the 1980s and 1990s; the connections between politics and place; narratives of state violence; activists' experimental lifestyles; and the uneven development of democratic politics on and off the street. Lee illuminates how the interaction between official history, collective memory, and performance came to define youth citizenship and resistance in Indonesia's transition to the post-Suharto present.

Author Biography

Doreen Lee is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern University.

Table of Contents

Preface  ixAcknowledgments  xiiiA Note about Names  xviiIntroduction. Pemuda Fever  11. Archive  252. Street  573. Style  854. Violence  1175. Home  1476. Democracy  179Conclusion. A Return to Home  209Notes  219Bibliography  247Index  269

Review

"... the main strength of Activist Archives is that it raises important questions by not providing all the answers. In this way, it invites frequent re-reading, creating a richer understanding of the micropolitics of student activism upon each re-read." -- Yatun Sastramidjaja * Contemporary Southeast Asia *"Activist Archives can be called a definitive work that will be prized as perhaps the best 'biography' of a generation of Indonesian urban activism." -- Abidin Kusno * Pacific Affairs *"Activist Archives is an important exploration of the 1998 Indonesian student movement and its ongoing influence, adding greatly to our knowledge of student movements and democratization in postcolonial settings." -- Rachel Rinaldo * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Activist Archives undoubtedly offers us a new approach to the analysis of Reformasi, student and youth politics in the recent history of Indonesia. It provides new insights, enriched via an extensive use of fieldwork and archival material." -- John G. Taylor * Asian Affairs *"Activist Archives is undoubtedly a significant contribution to the anthropological analysis of youths and political culture in modern Indonesian history." -- Farabi Fakih * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *"A valuable expansion. Activist Archives should be of interest to students and other scholars from a range of disciplines concerned with the ephemerality and endurance of democratic transitions." -- Mary E. McCoy * Journal of Asian Studies *

Review Quote

"... the main strength of Activist Archives is that it raises important questions by not providing all the answers. In this way, it invites frequent re-reading, creating a richer understanding of the micropolitics of student activism upon each re-read."

Details ISBN082236171X Author Doreen Lee Short Title ACTIVIST ARCHIVES Pages 296 Publisher Duke University Press Language English ISBN-10 082236171X ISBN-13 9780822361718 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2016 Publication Date 2016-05-27 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations 18 illustrations UK Release Date 2016-05-27 AU Release Date 2016-05-27 NZ Release Date 2016-05-27 US Release Date 2016-05-27 Alternative 9780822361527 DEWEY 378.198109598 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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