Full Description
Youth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia addresses current struggles and opportunities facing Indonesia's youth across the archipelago. Contributions to this volume delve into youth aspirations and their everyday lives - education; friendship; work; leisure; sexuality; religion - described through the lens of the young people themselves.
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface: Being Young in Indonesia, Kathryn Robinson
Section 1: Studying Indonesia's Youth: The Big Picture
Chapter 1: Generation and Social Change: Indonesian Youth in Comparative Perspective, Ben White
Chapter 2: Contemporary Indonesian Youth Transitions: Trends and Inequalities, Pam Nilan, Lyn Parker, Kathryn Robinson and Linda Bennett
Section 2: Education—Securing Youth Futures?
Chapter 3: Teenage Experiences of School, Work, and Life in a Javanese Village, Ben White and C. Ugik Margiyatin
Chapter 4: Educational Aspirations and Inter-generational Relations in Sorowako, Kathryn Robinson
Section 3: Friendship, Growing up, and Peer Surveillance
Chapter 5: Pouring out One's Heart: Close Friendships among Minangkabau Young People, Lyn Parker
Chapter 6: Pramuka: Scouting Days of Fun, Pujo Semedi
Section 4: Performing Youth in Space and Time
Chapter 7: Dwindling Space and Expanding Worlds for Youth in Rural and Urban Yogyakarta, Patrick Guinness
Chapter 8: Local Modernities: Young Women Socializing Together, Pam Nilan
Section 5: Performing Masculinity, Claiming the Street
Chapter 9: Streetwise Masculinity and Other Urban Performances of Postwar Ambon: A Photo-Essay, Patricia Spyer
Chapter 10: Violent Activism, Islamist Ideology, and the Conquest of Public Space among Youth in Indonesia, Noorhaidi Hasan
Section 6: "Moral Panics" and the Health of the Nation
Chapter 11: The Ongoing Culture Debate: Female Youth and Pergaulan (Bebas) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tracy Wright Webster
Chapter 12: Young Sasak Mothers—"Tidak Manja Lagi": Transitioning from Single Daughter to Young Married Mother in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia, Linda Rae Bennett
Index
