From Rebellion to Riots - Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo

Informationen zum Autor Jamie S. Davidson is assistant professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. He is the editor, along with David Henley, of Deployment of Tradition: Adat and Politics in Indonesia from Colonialism to Indigenism. Klappentext Offers an analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. This book reveals the links between ethnic violence and subnational politics. It also demonstrates that the endemic violence in this vast region is not the inevitable outcome of its ethnic diversity. Zusammenfassung Offers an analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most ethnically heterogeneous provinces! West Kalimantan. This book reveals the links between ethnic violence and subnational politics. It also demonstrates that the endemic violence in this vast region is not the inevitable outcome of its ethnic diversity.

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• Authors: Jamie Davidson, Jamie Mccoy Davidson, Jamie S Davidson, Alfred W. McCoy
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2008
• EAN: 9780299225803
• ISBN: 978-0-299-22580-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology