“Barangsiapa ingin memahami masyarakat dan politik Indonesia kontemporer, dan memakai media sebagai titik masuknya atau sebagai perangkat pemahaman, akan dimudahkan oleh kajian Tapsell ini.” David T. Hill, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University “Buku penting yang menggali hubungan antara media Indonesia, khususnya dalam bentuk digital, dengan oligarki di satu sisi, dan masyarakat …
Analyzing the strategic manuevers of today's great information powers -- Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T-- Wu encovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire.
'A remarkably interesting account of Indonesian agricultural history, primarily covering the period of Dutch control, from 1619 to 1942. Drawing on ecology, sociology, and economics, Geertz...provides an insightful and persuasive analysis.'--The Annals
'If colonial geography ever succeeds in establishing itself as a discrete and integral focus of inquiry, it may well date its majority to the…
In this lively book, Benedict R. O'G. Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history: that while the Indonesian nation is young, the Indonesian nation is ancient originating in the early seventeenth-century Dutch conquests; and that contemporary politics are conducted in a new language. Bahasa I…
“Buku ini bukan hanya meneroka berbagai isu dalam masyarakat mutakhir, mulai dari islamisasi budaya kaum muda perkotaan hingga K-Pop, politik jalanan, minoritas Tiong hoa, dan representasi tragedi 1965-66, tetapi juga memperlihatkan kebertautan antarisu tersebut; dan bermuara pada problematisasi narasi-narasi besar seperti nasion dan nasionalisme, globalisme dan globalisasi, modernisme dan mo…
On the existence of Lekra, an Indonesian cultural organization closely affiliated with Indonesian Communist Party, 1950-1965, and their role and position in the cultural history of Indonesia based on study on cultural column in Harian rakjat daily.
The issues surrounding women, feminism and fundamentalism are currently being debated throughout the world at every level and by every segment of humanity. In this volume a broad spectrum of views and perspectives are presented. What the authors have in common, however, is that they all distance themselves from what is known today as ?secular fundamentalism?, an approach that claims that only s…
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real differ…
Pada awal berdirinya Orde Baru, musuh besar penguasa ternyata bukan hanya komunisme, melainkan... rambut gondrong! Persoalan yang sepertinya sepele ini ternyata menyita perhatian khusus penguasa. Petinggi militer mengeluarkan radiogram pelarangan rambut gondrong, bahkan Pangkopkamtib bicara mengenainya di TVRI. Instansi publik menolak melayani orang-orang berambut gondrong. Pelajar, mahasi…
I La Galigo is music-theater work by Robert Wilson that has been shown since 2004 in Asia, Europe, Australia and the United States. It is based on an adaption by Rhoda Grauer of the epic creation myth Sureq Galigo of the Bugis from South Sulawesi, written between the 13th and 15th century in the Indonesian language Buginese.
Buku ini menyoroti suatu aspek masyarakat Madura yang kurang dikenal, baik di Indonesia maupun di luar negeri, yaitu kegiatan keseniannya. Metode penelitian etnografis yang dipergunakan oleh penulis mengamati kesenian dari tingkat estetis sampai tingkat sosialnya, serta proses penciptaan yang nyata sampai sumber materilnya, sehingga mengungkapkan kaitan struktural bentuk kesenian ini di bidang …
Kuan-Hsing Chen argues that the intellectual and subjuctive work of decolonization begun across East Asia after rthe Second World War was stalled by the cold war.
Buku KOMUNIKASI EFEKTIF merupakan perluasan dari Ilmu Komunikasi. Pengantar yg ditulis sebelumnya, lebih menekankan pada pendekatan lintas budaya. Buku KOMUNIKASI EFEKTIF ini merupakan perluasan dari buku Ilmu Komunikasi: Suatu Pengantar yang ia tulis sebelumnya. Dalam buku ini ia lebih menekankan pada pendekatan lintas budaya, sehingga diharapkan buku ini dapat membantu Anda memahami bagaima…
In 'Lost Languages, Andrew Robinson reports from the front lines of the global efforts now under way to crack the Meroitic hieroglyphs of ancient Nubia, the Etruscan alphabet, the Indus Valley Sealstones, the Zapotec script--the earliest in the Americas--and five other major 'lost languages.'
Dengan menyimak teks monografi ini, para pembaca budiman diharapkan mampu ingat untuk lupa terhadap hal-hal yang sesungguuhnya tidak basic kalau mereka perlu mempercakapkan dan mengusahakan konsesus nasional ketika konflik SARA terlanjur muncul di antara warga masyarakat
Dangdut Stories is the first musicological study to examine the stylistic development of dangdut music itself, using vocal style, melody, rhythm, form, and song texts to articulate symbolic struggles over meaning. Throughout the book the voices and experiences of musicians take center stage in shaping the book's narrative. Dangdut was first developed during the early 1970s, and an historical tr…
Berisi naskah-naskah Pidato Kebudayaan Dewan Kesenian Jakarta dari 1998-2013, yang disampaikan oleh Ahmad Syafii Maarif, Ali Sadikin, Amien Rais, Azyumardi Azra, B. Herry Priyono, Busyro Muqoddas, D. Zawawi Imron, Hidayat Nur Wahid, I Gusti Agung Ayu Ratih, Ignas Kleden, Karlina Supelli, Mahfud M.D, Rocky Gerung, Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, Todung Mulya Lubis.
With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller-over 1.5 million copies sold-is now a major PBS special.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-…
Slavoj Zizek, dubbed by the Village Voice 'the giant of Ljubljana,' is back with a new edition of his seriously entertaining book on film, psychoanalysis (and life). His inimitable blend of philosophical and social theory, Lacanian analysis, and outrageous humor are here made to show how Hollywood movies can explain psychoanalysis-and vice versa. Why does the phallus appear? Why is woman…
Through criticism of British cultural studies, New Historicism and cultural materialism, Easthope examines the discipline of cultural studies as it comes out of literary studies.
Culture and the Public Sphere argues that even in a postmodern world there is a place for value judgements in the arts and seeks to map out a new terrain for policy-oriented cultural studies in education, research and professional practice.
Jim McGuigan challenges the commonly accepted instrumentalist agenda for 'cultural policy studies' and proposes an alternat…
Through a range of case- studies, including studies from the UK, North America and Australia, this book moves away from the idea that museums are always 'conservative' to suggest they have a long history of engaging with popular culture and addressing a variety of audiences. Andrea Whitcomb argues that museums are key mediators between high and popular culture and between government, media prac…
Stuart Hall is one of the founding fathers of Cultural Studies. Having famously coined the term 'Thatcherism' in the 80s, and assessed New Labour as the 'Great Moving Nowhere Show'. His analysis of cultural practice over the past forty years has been politically engaged, addressing questions of class, 'race', ethnicity, and identity.
Stuart Hall is the ideal gateway to the work of a cri…