In Search of Middle Indonesia : Middle Classes in Provincial Towns.
- 1st ed.
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- Power and Place in Southeast Asia ; v.4 .
- Power and Place in Southeast Asia .
Intro -- In Search of Middle Indonesia -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Democracy, Markets and the Assertive Middle -- PART ONE: CLASS -- Betting on the Middle? Middletown, Mojokuto and 'Middle Indonesia' -- Working Class Revisited: Class Relations in Indonesian Provincial Towns -- Class Mobil: Circulation of Children in the Making of Middle Indonesia -- PART TWO: THE STATE -- A Divided Provincial Town: The Development from Ethnic to Class-based Segmentation in Kupang, West Timor -- Ethnicity and Young People's Work Aspirations in Pontianak -- Resisting Reforms: The Persistence of Patrimonialism in Pekalongan's Construction Sector -- PART THREE: EVERYDAY CULTURE -- Growing Up in Kupang -- Between the Global and the Local: Negotiating Islam and Democracy in Provincial Indonesia -- In Search of Middle Indonesian: Linguistic Dynamics in a Provincial Town -- Bibliography -- Index.
The middle classes of Indonesia's provincial towns are not particularly rich yet nationally influential. This book examines them ethnographically. Rather than a market-friendly, liberal middle class, it finds a conservative petty bourgeoisie just out of poverty and skilled at politics. Please note that Sylvia Tidey's article (pp. 89-110) will only be available in the print edition of this book (9789004263000).
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Middle class -- Indonesia. City and town life -- Indonesia. Social classes -- Indonesia. Democracy -- Social aspects -- Indonesia. Indonesia -- Social conditions.