Mobilizing the Masses
Street Vendors, Political Contracts, and the Role of Mediators in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2842600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheri Gibbing, Sheri Lynn Gibbing, Sheri Gibbings (Wilfrid Laurier University), Sheri Lynn Gibbings (Wilfrid Laurier University [email protected]), Elan Lazuardi (0000-0003-3773-692X, Universitas Gadjah Mada [email protected]), Khidir Marsanto Prawirosusanto (0000-0003-1718-6190, Universitas Gadjah Mada [email protected]) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 173 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 242-272 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-17301004 |
| OpenAlex | W2734391897 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article explores how a major street vendor organization, APKLI, negotiated its political agency during the New Order and post-Soeharto eras in Indonesia. Tracing the formation of the organization to its current existence, the article argues that APKLI has relied on mediators—both street vendor leaders and others with close ties to the state, other organizations, and/or political parties—to negotiate for street vendors’ recognition and support. It then describes how APKLI National sought to engage in electoral populism during the 2014 presidential election by promising to support a particular candidate in exchange for greater recognition and protection of street vendors. We argue that despite APKLI’s attempt to generate an ‘imagined community’ (Anderson 1983) of street vendors across the archipelago, many of its own district branches as well as individual street vendors supported local patrons who would more directly influence their immediate future. Others did not want to support a single political party, and preferred to maintain a neutral stance
Agency (philosophy · Business · Negotiation · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Presidential election · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Vendor · Asian Studies and History · Law · Public Administration · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Brokers and Brokerage, Anthropology of
Ethnicized Violence in Indonesia
Changing to Gray
Decolonization and the Making of Middle Indonesia
Local Elections and Party Politics in Post‐ Reformasi Indonesia
Unnamed Interests and Informal Leaders
Imagined communities
Indonesia's 2014 Elections
The Appearances of Memory
When Brokers Betray
Street Vending as Ethical Citizenship in Urban Indonesia
Opening the Black Box of Migration
Unseen Powers and Democratic Detectives
Introduction
Of figures and types
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2020 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |