Overview
- Aims to situate the mass violence which engulfed Indonesia in the mid-1960s within the field of comparative genocide studies
- Brings together cutting edge and interdisciplinary research by both established and emerging scholars of the 1965 genocide
- Reveals different dimensions of the genocide and how its effects continue to impact Indonesian society today
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide (PSHG)
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About this book
This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath. Fifty years on from one the largest genocides of the twentieth century, they probe the causes, dynamics and legacies of this violence through the use of a wide range of sources and different scholarly lenses.
Chapter 12 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Chapter 12 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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New Empirical Research and Interpretations
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Legacies of the Indonesian Genocide
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Reviews
“The book is a valuable tool to approach some significant aspects of what happened in 1965/1966 and especially its aftermath. The book shows that an approach to what happened could and should be multi-layered.” (Fritz Schulze, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, May09, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Katharine McGregor is Associate Professor in Southeast Asian History and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Jess Melvin is Rice Faculty Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies and Post-Doctoral Associate in Genocide Studies at Yale University, USA.
Annie Pohlman is Lecturer in Indonesian at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Jess Melvin is Rice Faculty Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies and Post-Doctoral Associate in Genocide Studies at Yale University, USA.
Annie Pohlman is Lecturer in Indonesian at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Indonesian Genocide of 1965
Book Subtitle: Causes, Dynamics and Legacies
Editors: Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin, Annie Pohlman
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71455-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71454-7Published: 22 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10059-9Published: 25 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71455-4Published: 09 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-569X
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5703
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 386
Topics: Memory Studies, Asian History, History of Military, Modern History, Cultural History