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Shadow Play: Information Politics in Urban Indonesia (Anthropological Horizons)

Sheri Lynn Gibbings

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Description:Focusing on a government-organized street vendor relocations in Indonesia, Shadow Play carefully exposes why conflicts over urban planning are fought through information politics.Anthropologist Sheri Lynn Gibbings shows that information politics are the principal avenues through which the municipal government seeks to implement its urban projects. Information politics are also the primary means through which street vendors, activists, and NGOs can challenge these plans. Through extensive interviews and lengthy participant observation in Yogyakarta city, Gibbings shows that both state and non-state actors engage in transparency, rumours, conspiracies, and surveillance practices.Gibbings reveals that these entangled information practices create suspicion and fear, form new solidarities, and dissolve relationships. Shadow Play is a compelling study that shows that we cannot understand urban projects in post-Suharto Indonesia and the resistance to them without first understanding the complexities embedded in the information practices.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shadow Play: Information Politics in Urban Indonesia (Anthropological Horizons). To get started finding Shadow Play: Information Politics in Urban Indonesia (Anthropological Horizons), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Focusing on a government-organized street vendor relocations in Indonesia, Shadow Play carefully exposes why conflicts over urban planning are fought through information politics.Anthropologist Sheri Lynn Gibbings shows that information politics are the principal avenues through which the municipal government seeks to implement its urban projects. Information politics are also the primary means through which street vendors, activists, and NGOs can challenge these plans. Through extensive interviews and lengthy participant observation in Yogyakarta city, Gibbings shows that both state and non-state actors engage in transparency, rumours, conspiracies, and surveillance practices.Gibbings reveals that these entangled information practices create suspicion and fear, form new solidarities, and dissolve relationships. Shadow Play is a compelling study that shows that we cannot understand urban projects in post-Suharto Indonesia and the resistance to them without first understanding the complexities embedded in the information practices.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shadow Play: Information Politics in Urban Indonesia (Anthropological Horizons). To get started finding Shadow Play: Information Politics in Urban Indonesia (Anthropological Horizons), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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