Images of Youth

On the Iconography of History and Protest in Indonesia

Bibliographic Data

ID2156245
AuthorsDoreen Lee (0000-0002-6764-9352, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume22
Issue3
Pages307-336
Publication date2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02757206.2011.595003
OpenAlexW2313931342
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited34

This article investigates the visibility of youth (pemuda) in Indonesian history, concentrating on the 1998 Indonesian Student Movement's politically transgressive and yet increasingly popular forms of expression. The figure of the activist (aktivis), transfused with its history of revolt, nationalist struggle, violence and victimization, constituted the core of a powerful series of representations of nationalist youth politics that popularized student demonstrations within public culture. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork, I trace the development of what I identify as the activist-as-fetish image over the movement's course, analysing how global and historical elements engender local and contemporary meanings in highly effective and yet heavily mediated ways

Art history · Ethnography · Geography · Iconography · Indonesian · Media studies · Nationalism · Nationalist Movement · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transgressive · Visibility · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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