Intimacy with Post-colonial Violence; Notes from Indonesia

To consider the importance of the style of violence is to recognise that the act of violence does not solely or primarily fulfil an instrumental or utilitarian purpose. That is precisely what most social scientists are trained not to see.

Heryanto, Ariel (2001) “Intimacy with Post-colonial Violence; Notes from Indonesia”, Humane Societies, Janet McCalman (ed.), Canberra: The Australian Academy of Humanities, pp. 31-44.

keywords: Asian values, Indonesia, mass violence, post-colonial, Reformasi, spectacle, stylisation