Stepchildren in Their Own Land
Class and Identity in an Indonesian Corporate Town
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3914343 |
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| Authors | Kathryn Robinson (Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 85-98 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mankind (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-2328 • E-ISSN: 2204-2121 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1835-9310.1986.tb00746.x |
| OpenAlex | W2064678972 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
The people of a rural village in Indonesia have been incorporated into a modern town which grew up as a consequence of the establishment of a foreign owned nickel mining and processing facility. The paper examines the assertion of ethnic identity by the indigenous population of the village in the context of the changes in their social and economic milieu. Soroakan identity is examined as a response to the oppression arising on the basis of capitalist class relations. Because of the apparent fit between the status hierarchy derived from the company's manpower structure. and a hierarchy of racial and ethnic groups, the Soroakan people identify race and ethnic group relations, rather than the capitalist rationality of the company. as the cause of their felt dispossession
Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Hierarchy · Identity (music) · Indigenous · Indonesian · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Highly cited | No |
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