Ariel Heryanto
Biographic Data
| ID | 4105154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariel Heryanto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariel |
| FAMILY NAME | Heryanto |
| SIGNATURE | HERYANTO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3782-3364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Popular culture and identity politics
This chapter contends that an in-depth investigation into identity politics in popular culture is a critical component to studying the social life of this world’s fourth most populated nation. It shows how elite national politics and everyday cultural practices and contestations are mutually constitutive in complex and indirect ways, with a focus on identity politics in contemporary Indonesia as manifest in popular cultures. For too long the stud…
Decolonising Indonesia, Past and Present
In the pursuit of an “authentically Indonesian” nation-state, for decades Indonesians have denied the civil rights of fellow citizens for allegedly being less authentically Indonesian. A key to the longstanding efficacy of such exclusionary ethno-nationalism is the failure to recognise the trans-national solidarity that helped give birth to independent Indonesia. Such solidarity is best illustrated in the extraordinary case of the making in Austr…
Identity and Pleasure
Asia literacy
In separate ways, two issues have concerned scholars in Australia and beyond. The first challenge concerns a desire to respond adequately to the widely accepted critique of Euro-American centricism, which is deeply embedded in much of the social sciences and humanities. The second issue hovers around ways to respond to the unsettling impacts of digital technology, which has radically altered our everyday social relations, along with knowledge pro…
The Cinematic Contest of Popular Post-Islam ism
Cultural Studies’ Significant Others
Kajian kebudayaan dan aliran ilmu sosial dan humaniora konvensional sering digambarkan secara negatif. Dalam artikel ini, penulis membahas suatu paradok. Meski tidak bisa disebut sebagai 'syarat', tradisi kuat dalam ilmu sosial dan humaniora merupakan dasar terbentuknya dan berkembangnya kajian kebudayaan, dan sekaligus menjadi pengkritik utama kajian kebudayaan itu sendiri. Disiplin-disiplin ilmu konvensional tersebut merupakan pihak lainyang si…
The intimacies of cultural studies and area studies
References to area studies occasionally appear in cultural studies discourses, and vice versa, but most of them consist of terse comments made in passing. This article attempts a more substantive enquiry into a possible convergence of cultural and area studies, with specific reference to Southeast Asia. It argues that one promising scenario for studies of the region will take the form of a cultural studies, with the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies pr…
Pop Culture Formations across East Asia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Entertainment, Domestication and Dispersal
Popular Culture in Indonesia
This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the authoritarian Suharto regime (1998), a time of great change in Indonesian society more generally. It explains how one of the most significant results of the deepening industrialization in Southeast Asia since the 1980s has been the expansion of consumption…
State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia
Approximately one million innocent Indonesians were killed by their fellow nationals, neighbours and kin at the height of an anti-communist campaign in the mid-1960s. This book investigates the profound political consequences of these mass killings in Indonesia upon public life, highlighting the historical specificities of the violence and comparable incidents of identity politics in more recent times. Mixing theory with empirically based analysi…
State terrorism and political identity in Indonesia
Politics and the Press in Indonesia
Challenging authoritarianism in Southeast Asia
Can There Be Southeast Asians in Southeast Asian Studies
This essay addresses three thematic issues. First, some sort of area studies can be predicted to grow in scale and importance in most parts of Southeast Asia, although the name and boundary of this area of analysis may be different from that of the American-led Southeast Asian studies of the Cold-War period. Second, despite such possible development, the old Southeast Asian studies as it has matured on the other side of the globe will continue to…
The Industrialization of the Media in Democratizing Indonesia
This article examines the transition of Indonesia's print media: from operating under a strong, paternalistic, and authoritarian state (roughly until the mid-1990s) to the current situation characterized by liberalization, a highly competitive market, and a significantly subdued state apparatus. The transition has been complicated by two separate factors: the protracted frictions at all levels of the state apparatus and society, and the spread of…
The Industrialization of the Media in Democratizing Indonesia
Where Communism never dies
Indonesia’s militarist New Order, the last and longest-lasting Cold War capitalist authoritarianism, came to power in 1965 immediately after one of the bloodiest massacres in modern history. Vigorous cultural reproduction of the trauma of the events and continuous rehearsals of state violence on the nation’s body politic have been enormously responsible for the regime’s longevity. They constitute the most determining force in the identity-making …
Indonesia
Silence in Indonesian Literary Discourse
This paper raises questions about the curious absence of ethnic tension involving the Chinese minority as a theme within the Indonesian literary canon during the seventy-five or more years of its history. The silence is intriguing given the salience of the topic in everyday conversations, national policies, as well as non-fictional writings and fictional works outside the officially sanctioned sphere. The national literature of Indonesia has been…
What Does Post-Modernism Do in Contemporary Indonesia
This paper historizes the recent vogue of post-modernist thought in Indonesia by relating that vogue to the cultural politics of the country's urban intelligentsia. The writer welcomes post-modernism, but with some serious reservations. He relates the contradictory political character of post-modernism to the position of the middle class in contemporary Indonesia. While the homology between the middle class and post-moderhism may well be global, …
"The Development of "Development
Approaching the end of the twentieth century, the majority of us who have had some schooling are accustomed to see the sun rise over the eastern horizon every morning.And we believe our perceptions, even though the sun has never risen over any horizon whatsoever.Our perceptions are deceived by the rotation of the earth, so that it is as though the sun rises every morning.It is not that we were never aware of this fact.Still, we are not always abl…
"The Development of "Development
Approaching the end of the twentieth century, the majority of us who have had some schooling are accustomed to see the sun rise over the eastern horizon every morning.And we believe our perceptions, even though the sun has never risen over any horizon whatsoever.Our perceptions are deceived by the rotation of the earth, so that it is as though the sun rises every morning.It is not that we were never aware of this fact.Still, we are not always abl…
Where Communism never dies
Indonesia’s militarist New Order, the last and longest-lasting Cold War capitalist authoritarianism, came to power in 1965 immediately after one of the bloodiest massacres in modern history. Vigorous cultural reproduction of the trauma of the events and continuous rehearsals of state violence on the nation’s body politic have been enormously responsible for the regime’s longevity. They constitute the most determining force in the identity-making …
Identity and Pleasure
Decolonising Indonesia, Past and Present
In the pursuit of an “authentically Indonesian” nation-state, for decades Indonesians have denied the civil rights of fellow citizens for allegedly being less authentically Indonesian. A key to the longstanding efficacy of such exclusionary ethno-nationalism is the failure to recognise the trans-national solidarity that helped give birth to independent Indonesia. Such solidarity is best illustrated in the extraordinary case of the making in Austr…
Silence in Indonesian Literary Discourse
This paper raises questions about the curious absence of ethnic tension involving the Chinese minority as a theme within the Indonesian literary canon during the seventy-five or more years of its history. The silence is intriguing given the salience of the topic in everyday conversations, national policies, as well as non-fictional writings and fictional works outside the officially sanctioned sphere. The national literature of Indonesia has been…
What Does Post-Modernism Do in Contemporary Indonesia
This paper historizes the recent vogue of post-modernist thought in Indonesia by relating that vogue to the cultural politics of the country's urban intelligentsia. The writer welcomes post-modernism, but with some serious reservations. He relates the contradictory political character of post-modernism to the position of the middle class in contemporary Indonesia. While the homology between the middle class and post-moderhism may well be global, …
Pop Culture Formations across East Asia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
The Industrialization of the Media in Democratizing Indonesia
The intimacies of cultural studies and area studies
References to area studies occasionally appear in cultural studies discourses, and vice versa, but most of them consist of terse comments made in passing. This article attempts a more substantive enquiry into a possible convergence of cultural and area studies, with specific reference to Southeast Asia. It argues that one promising scenario for studies of the region will take the form of a cultural studies, with the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies pr…
"The Development of "Development
Approaching the end of the twentieth century, the majority of us who have had some schooling are accustomed to see the sun rise over the eastern horizon every morning.And we believe our perceptions, even though the sun has never risen over any horizon whatsoever.Our perceptions are deceived by the rotation of the earth, so that it is as though the sun rises every morning.It is not that we were never aware of this fact.Still, we are not always abl…
What Does Post-Modernism Do in Contemporary Indonesia
This paper historizes the recent vogue of post-modernist thought in Indonesia by relating that vogue to the cultural politics of the country's urban intelligentsia. The writer welcomes post-modernism, but with some serious reservations. He relates the contradictory political character of post-modernism to the position of the middle class in contemporary Indonesia. While the homology between the middle class and post-moderhism may well be global, …
Indonesia
Silence in Indonesian Literary Discourse
This paper raises questions about the curious absence of ethnic tension involving the Chinese minority as a theme within the Indonesian literary canon during the seventy-five or more years of its history. The silence is intriguing given the salience of the topic in everyday conversations, national policies, as well as non-fictional writings and fictional works outside the officially sanctioned sphere. The national literature of Indonesia has been…
Where Communism never dies
Indonesia’s militarist New Order, the last and longest-lasting Cold War capitalist authoritarianism, came to power in 1965 immediately after one of the bloodiest massacres in modern history. Vigorous cultural reproduction of the trauma of the events and continuous rehearsals of state violence on the nation’s body politic have been enormously responsible for the regime’s longevity. They constitute the most determining force in the identity-making …
The Industrialization of the Media in Democratizing Indonesia
This article examines the transition of Indonesia's print media: from operating under a strong, paternalistic, and authoritarian state (roughly until the mid-1990s) to the current situation characterized by liberalization, a highly competitive market, and a significantly subdued state apparatus. The transition has been complicated by two separate factors: the protracted frictions at all levels of the state apparatus and society, and the spread of…
The Industrialization of the Media in Democratizing Indonesia
Can There Be Southeast Asians in Southeast Asian Studies
This essay addresses three thematic issues. First, some sort of area studies can be predicted to grow in scale and importance in most parts of Southeast Asia, although the name and boundary of this area of analysis may be different from that of the American-led Southeast Asian studies of the Cold-War period. Second, despite such possible development, the old Southeast Asian studies as it has matured on the other side of the globe will continue to…
Challenging authoritarianism in Southeast Asia
Politics and the Press in Indonesia
State terrorism and political identity in Indonesia
State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia
Approximately one million innocent Indonesians were killed by their fellow nationals, neighbours and kin at the height of an anti-communist campaign in the mid-1960s. This book investigates the profound political consequences of these mass killings in Indonesia upon public life, highlighting the historical specificities of the violence and comparable incidents of identity politics in more recent times. Mixing theory with empirically based analysi…
Popular Culture in Indonesia
This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the authoritarian Suharto regime (1998), a time of great change in Indonesian society more generally. It explains how one of the most significant results of the deepening industrialization in Southeast Asia since the 1980s has been the expansion of consumption…
Entertainment, Domestication and Dispersal
Pop Culture Formations across East Asia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
The intimacies of cultural studies and area studies
References to area studies occasionally appear in cultural studies discourses, and vice versa, but most of them consist of terse comments made in passing. This article attempts a more substantive enquiry into a possible convergence of cultural and area studies, with specific reference to Southeast Asia. It argues that one promising scenario for studies of the region will take the form of a cultural studies, with the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies pr…
The Cinematic Contest of Popular Post-Islam ism
Cultural Studies’ Significant Others
Kajian kebudayaan dan aliran ilmu sosial dan humaniora konvensional sering digambarkan secara negatif. Dalam artikel ini, penulis membahas suatu paradok. Meski tidak bisa disebut sebagai 'syarat', tradisi kuat dalam ilmu sosial dan humaniora merupakan dasar terbentuknya dan berkembangnya kajian kebudayaan, dan sekaligus menjadi pengkritik utama kajian kebudayaan itu sendiri. Disiplin-disiplin ilmu konvensional tersebut merupakan pihak lainyang si…
Asia literacy
In separate ways, two issues have concerned scholars in Australia and beyond. The first challenge concerns a desire to respond adequately to the widely accepted critique of Euro-American centricism, which is deeply embedded in much of the social sciences and humanities. The second issue hovers around ways to respond to the unsettling impacts of digital technology, which has radically altered our everyday social relations, along with knowledge pro…
Identity and Pleasure
Popular culture and identity politics
This chapter contends that an in-depth investigation into identity politics in popular culture is a critical component to studying the social life of this world’s fourth most populated nation. It shows how elite national politics and everyday cultural practices and contestations are mutually constitutive in complex and indirect ways, with a focus on identity politics in contemporary Indonesia as manifest in popular cultures. For too long the stud…
Decolonising Indonesia, Past and Present
In the pursuit of an “authentically Indonesian” nation-state, for decades Indonesians have denied the civil rights of fellow citizens for allegedly being less authentically Indonesian. A key to the longstanding efficacy of such exclusionary ethno-nationalism is the failure to recognise the trans-national solidarity that helped give birth to independent Indonesia. Such solidarity is best illustrated in the extraordinary case of the making in Austr…
Political science (15 works) · Asian Studies and History (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works)