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Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7409-1
Publication date:
2016
Chapter 2 describes how student activists laid claim to the city through spectacular displays of political participation, most evident in organized marches and demonstrations. Student expertise brought together middle-class university activists with rural and urban poor in a reformed nationalist body politic and influenced the spatial politics of popular democracy in post-Suharto Indonesia. Throughout the chapter, the memories of Reformasi in 1998 and the resistance poetry of disappeared activist poet Wiji Thukul punctuate present-day demonstrations with memories of insurgency, reminding activists of the connective tissue between populism and urban space.
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