The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s highly acclaimed and influential Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes taken from the slav…
The focus of Spectrum is the range of contemporary ideas that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society, rarely considered in the same optic. It looks at the theories of major minds of the twentieth-century Right, including Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss and Friedrich von Hayek; liberal philosophers such as John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas and Norberto Bobbio; and sign…
Sang Pengoceh – Llosa lewat El Hablador, barangkali adalah karya yang paling banyak menimbulkan perdebatan. Puluhan buku dan kajian ilmiah telah ditulis untuk mengurai dan menafsirkan novel tentang benturan antara ekspansi modernitas dan pertahanan hidup masyarakat adat dan pencarian jati diri pribadi, masyarakat, dan arti minoritas dalam sebuah bangsa-bangsa ini. “Beberapa tahun lalu, s…
“Sejak dulu, orang-orang Indonesia tak memiliki tradisi mendokumentasi. Sejak zaman raja-raja. Kalau mereka mendokumentasi itu semata demi raja-raja. Sejarah kita pun jadi sejarah para raja. Tak heran saya kalau orang asing yang banyak menulis tentang Indonesia. Kita tak punya detail tentang diri kita sendiri. Bayangkan, bangsa besar ini tak kenal dirinya sendiri.” Tentang Dokumentasi …
Kamus Pramedya Ananta Toer berisi hal—hal penting yang berhubungan dengan salah satu penulis terbasar di Indonesia ini. Tentang hubungannya dengan orang—orang di sekitar, mulai dari keluarga, tokoh-tokoh yang menjadi inspirasi hingga musuh—musuhnya. Buku ini juga menjelaskan tentang karya— karyanya, tempat—tempat dan kejadian penting yang pernah ia alami hingga ke kata—kata penting …
How nationalism has shaped the political and cultural landscape of Southeast Asia. “‘Come, let us build a Third Kingdom, and in this Third Reich, hey, sisters, you will live happily; hey, brothers, you will live happily; hey, kids, you will live happily; hey, you German patriots, you will see Germany sitting enthroned above all the peoples in this world.’ How clever Hitler was, brothers …
In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a radical recasting of themes from Imagined Communities, his classic book on nationalism, through an exploration of fin-de-siecle politics and culture that spans the Caribbean, Imperial Europe and the South China Sea. A jewelled pomegranate packed with nitroglycerine is primed to blow away Manila's 19th-century colonial elite at …
Soekarno, Komunis dan Fasis adalah tema-tema yang menjadi ikon sejarah Indonesia, sementara New Emerging Forces adalah sebuah konsepsi dari Soekarno ditahun 1960-an untuk membangun gerakan baru menantang dunia lama neo-kolinialisme yang sudah mapan dan tua. Kebetulan, istilah tersebut diberi makna universal oleh Joesoef Isak dari Hasta Mitra dengan mengatakan semua kekuatan baru yang menolak ta…
Ha Jin’s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Mao’s “volunteer” army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th Parallel. Because he speaks English, he soon becomes an intermediary between his compatri…
Roman Arok Dedes bukan roman mistika-irasional (kutukan keris Gandring tujuh turunan). Ini adalah roman politik seutuh-utuhnya. Berkisah tentang kudeta pertama di Nusantara. Kudeta ala Jawa. Kudeta merangkak yang menggunakan banyak tangan untuk kemudian memukul habis dan mengambil bagian kekuasaan sepenuh-penuhnya. Kudeta licik tapi cerdik. Berdarah, tapi para pembunuh yang sejati bertepuk dad…
Kedewasaan berpikir suatu bangsa dapat diukur dari sikap terbuka untuk membicarakan kembali secara rasional dan wajar tokoh-tokoh sejarahnya. Pembicaraan kembali itu menunjukkan adanya kebutuhan rohani untuk meninjau kembali penilaian mereka sehingga dapat dicapai suatu persepsi yang lebih matang tentang tokoh-tokoh yang bersangkutan. Usaha ini mencerminkan dinamika bangsa itu, yang senantiasa …
Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti-Ottoman rebellions …
Banned in China for its candid exploration of a young girl's sexual awakening yet widely acclaimed as being "the first novel of 'tough youth' in China" (Beijing Today), Beijing Doll cuts a daring path through China's rock-and-roll subculture. This cutting edge novel -- drawn from the diaries the author kept throughout her teenage years -- takes readers to the streets of Beijing where a disaffec…
Survivors of Operation Spectrum—the alleged Marxist conspiracy—speak up in this volume. For many of them, this is the first time that they cast their minds back to 1987 and try to make sense of the incident. What they did in that period was meaningful and totally legitimate. Their families and friends share the same view. The detainees were subjected to ill-treatment, humiliation, and ma…
Kisah tentang perjuangan sepasang anak manusia beda etnis pada masa-masa akhir Hindia-Belanda sampai perjuangan kemerdekaan Indonesia...
Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 - August 5, 1895) was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, working in close collaboration alongside Karl Marx. In 1845, he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research. In 1848, he produced with Marx The Communist Manifesto and l…
A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute. The history of the 20th century is Marx's legacy. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion -- or been so calamitously misinterpreted. The end of the century is a good moment to strip away the mythology and try to rediscover Marx the man. Ther…
Revolusi kemerdekaan Indonesia adalah suatu drama sejarah yang dahsyat; suatu drama yang memadukan tujuan rasional dengan sentimen emosional; memadukan tindakan kongkret dengan cita-cita dan impian; memadukan realitas dan mitos. Revolusi itu adalah cetusan tujuan kebangsaan Indonesia yang paling mendasar, yaitu kemerdekaan, sekaligus menjadi faktor yang mengukuhkan dasar-dasar kebangsaan itu, b…
There are reasons for thinking that this is at last Indonesia's moment on the world stage. Having successfully negotiated its difficult transition to democracy after 1998, Indonesia has held three popular elections with a low level of violence by the standards of southern Asia. Recetly its economic growth rate has been high (above 6 per cent a year) and rising, where China's has been dropping a…
There are reasons for thinking that this is at last Indonesia's moment on the world stage. Having successfully negotiated its difficult transition to democracy after 1998, Indonesia has held three popular elections with a low level of violence by the standards of southern Asia. Recetly its economic growth rate has been high (above 6 per cent a year) and rising, where China's has been dropping a…
The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the "normative" system of the world of passports and identity cards but a great many are not. This is particularly true in Asia, a region with some of the most sophisticated naming devices found anywhere in the world, including nicknames and teknonyms, religious and corporation names, honour and death n…
Seniman adalah profesi Yang Oleh sebagian besar orang dinilai unik. Mereka adalah orang-orang Yang bertugas menyuntikkan perspektif, merekam jaman, memprediksi masa depan, dan bahkan mengubah dunia. Pekerjaan mereka jenis pekerjaan subtil, mengolah rasa dana pa-apa saja yang tak sanggup diwujudkan dalam bahasa. Seniman adalah mereka yang berkubang dalam universalitas. Ketika ditanya apa itu se…
Novel sejarah yang menggabungkan catatan kebudayaan masyarakat Halmahera, Maluku Utara, dengan cerita kehidupan lintas generasi dari suku Tobelo, dan menyimpulnya dalam satu benang merah: semangat kepahlawanan dan keberanian masyarakat dalam menghadapi penguasa dan bangsa kolonial. Berlatar belakang Halmahera pada zaman kolonial dan relasinya dengan para sultan Ternate-Tidore abad ke-16 dan …
Volume 1 of Marx’s political writings, including The Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism; he was above all else a revolutionary. In Paris in 1844 he made the connection between radical philosophy and the proletariat that would guide his future work, first with the Communist League and later with the International Workingmen’s Association. Marx’s…
Bunga rampai karangan mengenai etika pegawai negeri ini, menghimpun berbagai pengkajian tentang gejala pelanggaran-pelanggaran etik demikian, yang populer kini disebut dengan istilah "korupsi" Korupsi sebagai satu gejala sosal yang dalam sejarahnya telah mengambil berbagai bentuk, dan dalam berbagai masyarakat dan kurun waktuberhasil menanam akar dalam nilai-nilai budaya sesuatu masyarakat a…
This study of the national parliaments of India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand is inspired by four major theoretical discourses: neo-institutionalism, parliamentarianism versus presidentialism, majoritarian versus consensus democracy, and transition theory. The book examines the specific role of parliaments in political decision-making, regime change, democratization, an…
The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia is a thought-provoking examination of local politics and the dynamics of power at Indonesia's geographic and social margins. After the fall of Suharto in 1998 and the introduction of a policy of decentralization in 2001, local stakeholders secured and consolidated decision-making power, and set about negotiating new relations with Jakarta. The volume…
Being "Dutch" in the Indies portrays Dutch colonial territories in Asia not as mere societies under foreign occupation but rather as a Creole empire . Most of colonial society, up to the highest levels, consisted of people of mixed Dutch and Asian descent who were born in the Indies and considered it their home, but were legally Dutch. They played a major role in the plantation industry, co…
Democratization in Indonesia has altered the political decision-making processes in many ways. It has also brought about tremendous change to the role of the Indonesian parliament in the country's political system. Once characterized as a powerless rubber stamp, the parliament has developed into a comprehensive and more representative body able to fulfil its functions more adequately. …
"The migration of some six million Vietnamese from the lowlands to the hills and mountains was one of the largest population transfers in twentieth-century Southeast Asia. Unlike the Indonesian transmigration program, however, the Vietnamese resettlement experience has received little scholarly attention. With this impressively researched volume, for which he won the 2005 Henry J. Benda Prize f…
"The migration of some six million Vietnamese from the lowlands to the hills and mountains was one of the largest population transfers in twentieth-century Southeast Asia. Unlike the Indonesian transmigration program, however, the Vietnamese resettlement experience has received little scholarly attention. With this impressively researched volume, for which he won the 2005 Henry J. Benda Prize f…
In this book one of Europe's foremost sociologists offers a profound and accessible overview of the trajectory of European societies, East and West, since the end of World War II. Combining theoretical depth with factual analysis, Goran Therborn addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature of European modernity, including: To what extent is the period 1945-2000 producing…
Ditranskrip dan disunting dari rekaman kaset rangkaian enam kuliah Michel Foucault dalam bahasa Inggris di Universitas California, Berkeley, musim gugur 1983, sebagai bagian dari seminarnya, “Wacana dan Kebenaran,” buku ini menelusuri gagasan tentang parrhesia atau “keterusterangan dalam berbicara kebenaran.” “Menangkap aspek-aspek kritis pemikiran akhir Foucault, dan menekankan wa…
Perkembangan dan pertumbuhan ilmu pengetahuan berhubungan secara dialektis dengan perubahan realitas material, praktik, maupun pergaulan umat manusia yang didorong oleh faktor-faktor yang berada di luar wilayah akademis. Di dalam ranah akademis sendiri, dapat dikatakan bahwa ilmu pengetahuan tumbuh dan berkembang lewat penambahan objek kajian dengan hal-hal yang sebelumnya belum dipertanyakan, …
Panyingkul! adalah media yang mengembangkan jurnalisme orang biasa (citizen journalism)dan dapat diakses online di www.panyinkul.com. SElan membuka ruang bagi siapa saja, di mana saja dan kapan saja, untuk berpartisipasi menjadi enyampai kabar, Panyingkul! juga terbuka bagi yang ingin memperdalam ketrampilan jurnalistik. Partisipasi warga, siapa saja, di mana saja, terutama dalam menulis berita…
Seorang primadona yang memiliki suara emas, sampai-sampai para pria sekampung baik tua maupun muda, tergoda oleh alunan merdu suaranya saat menyanyi di kamar mandi. Tentu saja, aksi itu menuai protes para perempuan kampung hingga ketua RT terpaksa mengeluarkan peraturan baru: DILARANG MENYANYI DIKAMAR MANDI! Daftar Isi : 1. “Dilarang Menyanyi di Kamar Mandi” (2005), ditulis pertama…
Sekarang, pada separuh perjalanan dalam tahun 1980-an, Alvin Toffler menyuguhkan sebuah laporan perkembangan. Apa yang sedang terjadi di dunia sekitar kita yang berubah begitu cepat? Adakah suatu tatanan yang jelas - atau suatu senyum harapan yang tersungging di dalam wajah dunia yang kacau balau? Bagaimana fakta yang serba nyata seperti pengangguran dan senjata nuklir, teknologi komputer dan m…
One of the world's best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement. In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger. Ali captures the mood and energ…
Merupakan edisi bahasa Inggris dari puisi-puisi pilihan Dorothea Rosa Herliany yang diterjemahkan oleh seorang penerjemah sastra Indonesia terkemuka, Prof. Harry Aveling. Sebagaimana dituliskan Anie Kantar dalam reviewnya: “Dorothea Herliany's poetry is intent upon exposing and opposing oppression. She does not attempt to mend, her poetry does not offer a vision of a final utopia. Instead, it…