Charlotte Setijadi is assistant professor of humanities (education) in the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University.

Memories of Unbelonging is an important work on the effects of collective memory and trauma on the identity formation of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia. Setijadi argues that there is a collective trauma that structures the public and domestic lives of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia that have produced essential characteristics of their “identity politics.” The book’s contribution is in the interaction between the unconscious structure of trauma and its socio-cultural expressions that cut across different generations. Putting together a vast range of information and covering various sites of practices from the spheres of domestic household and neighborhood to higher education, as well as visual artistic domain and social and political organizations Setijadi clears a space for us to see a coherent structure of the living past traumatic experience and memories that continues to shape the domestic and public lives of the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia today." - Abidin Kusno, York University"Anti-Chinese discrimination and violence, fraught inter-ethnic relations, and a sense of unresolved injustice continue to plague politics and society in present-day Indonesia. The author’s survey of the contemporary socio-cultural, urban landscape inhabited by certain classes of Chinese Indonesians is a valuable assessment of developments since the post-1998 changes in state policy towards the Chinese. It is a portrait of progression, stagnation, creativity, and ongoing struggle from an “on the ground” perspective, going beyond a journalistic survey to offer substantial historical and theoretical context." - Karen M. Teoh, Stonehill College

Charlotte Setijadi is assistant professor of humanities (education) in the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University.

Memories of Unbelonging is an important work on the effects of collective memory and trauma on the identity formation of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia. Setijadi argues that there is a collective trauma that structures the public and domestic lives of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia that have produced essential characteristics of their “identity politics.” The book’s contribution is in the interaction between the unconscious structure of trauma and its socio-cultural expressions that cut across different generations. Putting together a vast range of information and covering various sites of practices from the spheres of domestic household and neighborhood to higher education, as well as visual artistic domain and social and political organizations Setijadi clears a space for us to see a coherent structure of the living past traumatic experience and memories that continues to shape the domestic and public lives of the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia today." - Abidin Kusno, York University"Anti-Chinese discrimination and violence, fraught inter-ethnic relations, and a sense of unresolved injustice continue to plague politics and society in present-day Indonesia. The author’s survey of the contemporary socio-cultural, urban landscape inhabited by certain classes of Chinese Indonesians is a valuable assessment of developments since the post-1998 changes in state policy towards the Chinese. It is a portrait of progression, stagnation, creativity, and ongoing struggle from an “on the ground” perspective, going beyond a journalistic survey to offer substantial historical and theoretical context." - Karen M. Teoh, Stonehill College

Charlotte Setijadi is assistant professor of humanities (education) in the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University.

Memories of Unbelonging is an important work on the effects of collective memory and trauma on the identity formation of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia. Setijadi argues that there is a collective trauma that structures the public and domestic lives of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia that have produced essential characteristics of their “identity politics.” The book’s contribution is in the interaction between the unconscious structure of trauma and its socio-cultural expressions that cut across different generations. Putting together a vast range of information and covering various sites of practices from the spheres of domestic household and neighborhood to higher education, as well as visual artistic domain and social and political organizations Setijadi clears a space for us to see a coherent structure of the living past traumatic experience and memories that continues to shape the domestic and public lives of the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia today." - Abidin Kusno, York University"Anti-Chinese discrimination and violence, fraught inter-ethnic relations, and a sense of unresolved injustice continue to plague politics and society in present-day Indonesia. The author’s survey of the contemporary socio-cultural, urban landscape inhabited by certain classes of Chinese Indonesians is a valuable assessment of developments since the post-1998 changes in state policy towards the Chinese. It is a portrait of progression, stagnation, creativity, and ongoing struggle from an “on the ground” perspective, going beyond a journalistic survey to offer substantial historical and theoretical context." - Karen M. Teoh, Stonehill College