In Search of Middle Indonesia: Middle Classes in Provincial Towns

In Search of Middle Indonesia: Middle Classes in Provincial Towns

The middle classes of Indonesia's provincial towns are not particularly rich yet nationally influential. This book examines them ethnographically. Rather than a market-friendly, liberal middle class, it finds a conservative petty bourgeoisie just out of poverty and skilled at politics. Please n...

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Hauptverfasser: Klinken, Gerry van, Berenschot, Ward
Format: Buch
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
City and town life
Democracy
Indonesia
Middle class
Social aspects
Social classes
Social conditions
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Zusammenfassung:The middle classes of Indonesia's provincial towns are not particularly rich yet nationally influential. This book examines them ethnographically. Rather than a market-friendly, liberal middle class, it finds a conservative petty bourgeoisie just out of poverty and skilled at politics. Please note that Sylvia Tidey's article (pp. 89-110) will only be available in the print edition of this book (9789004263000).
DOI:10.1163/9789004263437