Kerja arsip dan pengarsipan merupakan kerja politik: klaim, akses, dan pengetahuan. Dasar utamanya bukan pada produk budaya, tetapi pada proses-proses budaya yang berlangsung melalui tubuh dan ikatan yang kuat terhadap tanah. Arsip seni dan budaya sebagai sebuah proses dan kedudukannya sebagai “the presence” tak mungkin mewakili keotentikan, “kebenaran”, maupun tafsiran realitas. Strate…
The children of war sudah berlalu, kini kami adalah the children of peace. Tak ada lagi kata saling menyalahkan, tak ada lagi kata kalah dan menang. Berhenti mewariskan konflik dan tidak membuat konflik baru. Itu tekad, bukan slogan. Berbagai peristiwa konflik di Indonesia pasca kemerdekaan akibat adanya pertentangan ideologi, mewariskan luka yang dalam selama puluhan tahun di hati anak-cucu…
Another new compilation of Lat's work featuring everyday life in Malaysia.
These cartoons by Malaysian cartoonist Lat return to the Kampung Boy setting of his famous autobiographical collection to compare kampung life as he knew it growing up with the modern kampung life of the eighties and nineties.
Kampung Boy is a favorite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia. With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the life of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia in the 1950s: his adventures and mischief-making, fishing trips, religious study, and work on his family's rubber plantation. Meanwhile, the traditional way of life in his village (or kampung) is steadily di…
"To date, most of the published scholarship on Islamist parties in Indonesia has fallen into two main categories, either single case studies, or articles that assess the grand sweep of Indonesian political parties. While many of those studies are highly insightful and theoretically grounded, comparatively few have succeeded in balancing depth with breadth. This book is impressive for several re…
Focusing on the twentieth century, this collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analysis of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide; the victims of Stalinist terror; the Holocaust; and Imperial Japan. Contributors explore colonialism and address the fate of the indigenous peop…
This book argues that Southeast Asian political studies have made important contributions to theory building in comparative politics through a dialogue involving theory, area studies, and qualitative methodology. The book provides a state-of-the-art review of key topics in the field, including: state structures, political regimes, political parties, contentious politics, civil society, ethnicit…