| Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia Contributor(s): Lee, Doreen (Author) |
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ISBN: 082236171X ISBN-13: 9780822361718 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Southeast Asia - Political Science | Political Process - Political Advocacy - Education | Higher |
| Dewey: 378.198 |
| LCCN: 2015044451 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Chronological Period - 1980's - Chronological Period - 1990's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |