Back Door Java

State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java

AvJanice Newberry

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Engelska, 2006

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In the densely populated urban neighbourhoods of Java, women manage their houses and their communities through daily exchanges of food, childcare, and labour. Their domestic work is based on local ideas of community cooperation and support, but also on the Indonesian government's use of women as unpaid social workers. Consequently, women are a pivotal point in both state-sponsored programs of domesticity and in the local practice of community exchange managed from individual houses. Back Door Java explores the everyday lives of ordinary urban Javanese from a new perspective on domestic space and the state. Using rich ethnographic description of a neighbourhood in Central Java, Newberry illuminates the ways in which state rule is intimately connected to the household and the community.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-04-01
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781442635821
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
Serie:Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
Dimensioner:152 x 229 x 25 mm

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Jan Newberry is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta.

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Newberry's book will be of great interest to scholars of Indonesia, but it also should be read by scholars of feminist and political theory. Her research reveals the value of ethnographic depth for analyses of state formation, as it highlights how the New Order state not only generated and distributed abstract ideas about domestic and national life, but brought them together in material forms that generated interpretations about gender and class, egalitarianism, and failure. These strengths also make the book an excellent text with which to teach. - The Journal of Asian Studies

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List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter One: Through the Missing Back Door, an Entrance Chapter Two: Kampung Chapter Three: The HouseChapter Four: The Household: Making Do Chapter Five: The Home Chapter Six: Through the Back Door of Domesticity: An Exit Epilogue: Housewife Ethnographer ReferencesIndex