Overview

Youth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia addresses current struggles and opportunities facing Indonesia’s youth across the archipelago. Contributions to this volume delve into youth aspirations and their everyday lives - education; friendship; work; leisure; sexuality; religion - described through the lens of the young people themselves.

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Author:   Kathryn Robinson
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   302
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.577kg
ISBN:  

9789004290464

ISBN 10:   900429046
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   20 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Preface: Being Young in Indonesia, Kathryn Robinson Section 1: Studying Indonesia’s Youth: The Big Picture Chapter 1: Generation and Social Change: Indonesian Youth in Comparative Perspective, Ben White Chapter 2: Contemporary Indonesian Youth Transitions: Trends and Inequalities, Pam Nilan, Lyn Parker, Kathryn Robinson and Linda Bennett Section 2: Education—Securing Youth Futures? Chapter 3: Teenage Experiences of School, Work, and Life in a Javanese Village, Ben White and C. Ugik Margiyatin Chapter 4: Educational Aspirations and Inter-generational Relations in Sorowako, Kathryn Robinson Section 3: Friendship, Growing up, and Peer Surveillance Chapter 5: Pouring out One’s Heart: Close Friendships among Minangkabau Young People, Lyn Parker Chapter 6: Pramuka: Scouting Days of Fun, Pujo Semedi Section 4: Performing Youth in Space and Time Chapter 7: Dwindling Space and Expanding Worlds for Youth in Rural and Urban Yogyakarta, Patrick Guinness Chapter 8: Local Modernities: Young Women Socializing Together, Pam Nilan Section 5: Performing Masculinity, Claiming the Street Chapter 9: Streetwise Masculinity and Other Urban Performances of Postwar Ambon: A Photo-Essay, Patricia Spyer Chapter 10: Violent Activism, Islamist Ideology, and the Conquest of Public Space among Youth in Indonesia, Noorhaidi Hasan Section 6: “Moral Panics” and the Health of the Nation Chapter 11: The Ongoing Culture Debate: Female Youth and Pergaulan (Bebas) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tracy Wright Webster Chapter 12: Young Sasak Mothers—“Tidak Manja Lagi”: Transitioning from Single Daughter to Young Married Mother in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia, Linda Rae Bennett Index

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Kathryn Robinson, PhD (1984) Australian National University is Professor of Anthropology at that University. She has published widely on Indonesia. Her books include Gender. Islam and Democracy in Indonesia (Routledge 2009) and Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans (Palgrave 2007).

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