Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia

Embedded Remembering
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-94-6372-356-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Heritage and Memory Studies

This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are not exclusively determined by the state’s repressive memory project, but are actually embedded in intricate social relations and local context where the violence occurred. What people remember, forget, or silenced is part of the continuous negotiation to claim one’s right, to relate to the state, and to be Indonesian citizen. This book redefines the politics of memory – that it does not necessarily appear in formal arenas, but actually lies in the intricate web of local dynamics, often involving transactional and clientelistic practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tjandra Leksana, Grace

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Acronyms and Glossary
Introduction
Chapter 1- The context of remembering
Chapter 2 - Executing the violence
Chapter 3 - Embedded Remembering
Chapter 4 - Memory landscapes
Chapter 5- Postmemory, silence, and trauma in family narratives
Conclusion -Embedded Remembering, historiography, and national reconciliation

Über Autor(innen)

Tjandra Leksana, Grace
Grace Leksana obtained her doctoral degree from Leiden University. She is currently an assistant professor in the History Department at Universitas Negeri Malang, researching collective memory, state violence, oral history, rural and agrarian studies, and decolonization. She is a member of the Indonesian Institute of Social History (Institut Sejarah Sosial Indonesia).