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<h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Nationalism, essentialism and the yearning for national 'wholeness': Post-colonial constructions of 'nation' in Indonesia</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Allen, Pamela M.</span> (2001) <xhtml:em>Nationalism, essentialism and the yearning for national 'wholeness': Post-colonial constructions of 'nation' in Indonesia.</xhtml:em> In: Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization. . Curzon Press, Surrey, UK, pp. 306-315. ISBN 1 093350 03 4</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_1249' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1059/1/Nationalism%2C_Essentialism_and_the_Search_for_National_'Wholeness'.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_1249' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_1249"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1059/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1059/1/Nationalism%2C_Essentialism_and_the_Search_for_National_'Wholeness'.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF (Author Version)</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />87Kb</td></tr></table><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Post-colonialist narratives have tended to reject the idea of nationalism as a totalising discourse and to allow for it to encompass a number of different - even competing - ideologies. In late 1990s Indonesia, however, in the midst of what some saw as the "Balkanisation" of the nation, essentialist nationalism still appeared to occupy a significant space. Take for example the August 1997 editorial of the journal media karya budaya, which asked its readers to consider the difficulty of ... encouraging (our children) to forsake McDonalds or Dunkin Donuts and go back to Nyonya Suharti's fried chicken or Palembang fish cakes. When everything that smacks of being "Indonesian" is marginalised, can we still in all sincerity, in our 17 August ceremonies, give honour to the sacrifice made by our national heroes who died in the battle against colonialism and who returned Indonesia to her people? It is a plea that seeks to privilege an "authentic" form of nationalist sentiment over the vulgar commercialism of globalisation, and to achieve an identity 'uncontaminated by universalist or Eurocentric concepts and images'. (During 1988, 114)
My paper examines a particular manifestation of this yearning for national wholeness: the concern with what Boehmer (1993, 273) calls 'maternal plenitude'. </p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Book Chapter</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">nationalism, globalization, Indonesia, Megawati</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/370107.html">370000 Studies in Human Society > 370100 Sociology > 370107 Social Change</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/379901.html">370000 Studies in Human Society > 379900 Other Studies in Human Society > 379901 Gender Specific Studies</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">1059</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Assoc. Prof. Pamela M Allen</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">24 May 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1059;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=1059">item control page</a></p>
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