This book demonstrates how preserving ideology and relationships with other activists affords social movements to persist over time amid limited resources and political opportunities in Southeast Asia.
Examining two peace movements in Indonesia – the largest democratic country in Southeast Asia – to illuminate discontinuity, continuity, and change in social movements, the author uses a cultural approach to understanding why social movements persist. He argues that the activists’ memory, relationship with others, collective identity, and emotion are reasons for social movements to ascend and peak. This is a direct response to the argument that the availability of resources and political opportunities is the main ingredient for any social movements to rise. While having different fates, the two movements studied arose in the midst of violence between Christian and Muslim communities in Ambon, Indonesia: The Kopi Badati movement and Filterinfo. The book extends the applicability of the cultural approach in explaining why social movements discontinue, continue, and change over time, without discounting the importance of available resources and political opportunities.
Addressing a gap in the existing social movement studies, the book explains why a social movement disbands and why the other manages to continue and change after achieving its immediate goal. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian studies, (new)-media and communications, civil society, and international development.
By:
Abdul Rohman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 308g
ISBN: 9781032204697
ISBN 10: 1032204699
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The life of social movements Chapter 3 Ambon in episodes of violence and peace Chapter 4 Badati what lead a movement to discontinue Chapter 5 The rise of Filterinfo Chapter 6 The peak of Filterinfo Chapter 7 The ebb and dormancy of Filterinfo Chapter 8 The rise of new community groups Chapter 9 Filterinfo as repository and memory Chapter 10 Friction, competition, and reconciliation Chapter 11 Social movements in post-conflict Ambon Chapter 12 Conclusion
Abdul Rohman is a lecturer and researcher in the School of Communication and Design at RMIT University, Vietnam. He is interested in understanding socio-technical and cultural changes in Southeast Asia.
