Citizenship and Indonesian Ethnic Chinese in Post-1998 Films

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Heryanto, Ariel (2008) “Citizenship and Indonesian Ethnic Chinese in Post-1998 Films”, in A. Heryanto (ed), Popular Culture in Indonesia: Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 70-92.

keywords: assimilation, Ca-bau-kan, Chinese, citizenship, discrimination, ethnicity, film, Gie, New Order, racism

The Debris of Post-Authoritarianism in Indonesia

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Heryanto, Ariel (2004) “The Debris of Post-Authoritarianism in Indonesia” in Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: Volume 2, F. Quadir and J. Lele (eds), London: Palgrave and Macmillan, pp. 65-85.

keywords: civil liberties, culture, democracy, emic, etic, political violence, post-authoritarianism, post-colonial

Public Intellectuals, Media and Democratization

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Heryanto, Ariel (2003) “Public Intellectuals, Media and Democratization” in Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia; Comparing Indonesia and Malaysia, A. Heryanto and S.K. Mandal (eds), London: RoutledgeCurzon, pp. 24-59.

keywords: democratization, Indonesia, Malaysia, media, middle class, postcolonial, public intellectual, Satya Wacana

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

The Years of Living Luxuriously

Consumption always makes a social statement, sometimes more and sometimes less than simply indicating the consumer’s purchasing capacity and personal taste.

Heryanto, Ariel (1999) “The Years of Living Luxuriously” in Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia, Michael Pinches (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, pp. 159-187.

keywords: Asianization, bourgeoisie, capitalism, class, consumerism, cultural construction, hegemony, ideology, lifestyle, Muslim, new rich

Hansonism The Asian Way

There is very little Asian about the rhetoric of Asian values/ Eastern Personality whose genealogy resides in the Western colonial construction of knowledge.

Heryanto, Ariel (1999) “Hansonism The Asian Way”, in Sir Paul Reeves (ed.), Asia-Pacific Economic Integration and Cultural Identity, Auckland: New Zealand Asia Institute, pp. 29-34.

keywords: Asianisation, colonial, cultural, Hanson, identity, orientalism, sovereignty, state

Ethnic Identities and Erasure; Chinese Indonesians in Public Culture

The New Order regime cannot possibly want the Assimilation Programme that it co-sponsors to attain its declared aims. Achieving these aims must instead be forever deferred. To dissolve Chinese identities in an effective programme of “assimilation” means to give up the division of labour by race, upon which the status quo depends so much.

Heryanto, Ariel (1998) “Ethnic Identities and Erasure; Chinese Indonesians in Public Culture” in Southeast Asian Identities; Culture and the Politics of Representation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, Joel S. Kahn (ed.), Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp. 95-114.

keywords: Chinese, class, erasure, ethnicity, identity, Indonesian, othering, public culture

Indonesian Middle-class Opposition in the 1990s

The New Order regime achieved a hegemonic status on the basis of the extra-ordinary political violence in 1965– 6, and the continued reproduction of widespread fear in its protracted aftermath. That massive violence and subsequent terrorism provided the fundamental basis for sustained ‘political stability’ and successful economic development. Ironically, both successes increasingly undermined their own basis. A new generation of middle classes and industrial workers has emerged.

Heryanto, Ariel (1996) “Indonesian Middle-class Opposition in the 1990s”, in Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia, Garry Rodan (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, pp. 241-271.

keywords: bans, labour, legitimacy, media, middle class, New Order, opposition, scandal