Overview
- Elaborates on the positionality of historical agents in Indonesian history beyond the dichotomy of victims and heroes
- Examines the politics of memory in overlooked figures and moments in the intersection of local-global histories
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Deals with the politics, poetics, and excavation of memory in Indonesia
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Politics of Memory
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Remembering War and Peace
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Tracing Agency
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Keywords
- Kolong Tangga Education and Toy Museum
- New Museology Theory in Indonesia
- Museum Sejarah Nasional
- Meaning-Making and History of Indonesia
- Presidential Museum of the Republic of Indonesia
- Poetics of Exhibition in Indonesia
- Visual Propaganda of Vienna Stamps in Indonesia
- History in post-Suharto Indonesia
- Indonesia’s Student Protesters in May 1998
- Botoh in Local Political Dynamics
- Memory and Civil Society in Indonesia
- Poetics of Memory in Indonesia
- Indonesian Memories of the Japanese Occupation
- Dynamics of the Soviet Union - Indonesia Relations
- Guided Democracy Politics in Indonesian Campus Environments
- Operations Seroja Soldiers in Seroja Complex Bekasi
- SilekHarimau Minangkabau
- Treaty Tumbang Anoi 1894
- Reclaiming Space in Loloda North Molucca
- Open Access
About this book
This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular expression, as they are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. The second part deals with memories of war and peace, examining transnational conflict and collaboration, the role of political elites and state projects dealing with the aftermath of military aggression, while also focusing on the impact and responses of civilians. The third part focuses on how state and civil societies frame historical figures, in ways that transcend the dichotomy of heroes and victims. The fourth part of the book looks at the way Indonesian museums and museology serve as sites where new kinds of memory work occur, in a post-1998 era.
The book is designed with the aim ofclearing a space for a plurality of memory works. Discussions in this volume extend from Loloda island in Eastern Indonesia, to Sabang island at the north westernmost end of the archipelago, and to the cosmopolitan centers. Temporally, it covers the colonial, the post-independence and contemporary eras. By juxtaposing diverse works, the book offers a new vista of multiple trajectories of memory being traced out in and about Indonesia.
This is an open access book.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Melani Budianta is Professor of literature and cultural studies, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia. She has a scholarly interest in the politics of representation, gender, power and cultural diversity. She has done transdisciplinary work in cultural commoning with cultural activists in Indonesia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trajectories of Memory
Book Subtitle: Excavating the Past in Indonesia
Editors: Melani Budianta, Sylvia Tiwon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1995-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1994-9Published: 28 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1997-0Published: 28 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-1995-6Published: 27 July 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 316
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Memory Studies, Asian Politics, Asian Culture, Political History