Infrastructures of Impunity: New Order Violence in Indonesia

Author:   Elizabeth F. Drexler
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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9781501773099


Pages:   282
Publication Date:   15 December 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Infrastructures of Impunity: New Order Violence in Indonesia


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In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indonesian genocide (1965-66) is not only a legal status, but also a cultural and social process. Impunity for the initial killings and for subsequent acts of political violence has many elements: bureaucratic, military, legal, political, educational, and affective. Although these elements do not always work at once-at times some are dormant while others are ascendant-together they can be described as a unified entity, a dynamic infrastructure, whose existence explains the persistence of impunity. For instance, truth telling, a first step in many responses to state violence, did not undermine the infrastructure, but instead bent to it. Creative and artistic responses to revelations about the past, however, have begun to undermine the infrastructure, by countering its temporality, affect, social stigmatization and demonstrating its contingency and specific actions, policies and processes that would begin to dismantle it. Drexler contends an infrastructure of impunity could take hold in an established democracy.

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Author:   Elizabeth F. Drexler
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781501773099


ISBN 10:   1501773097
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   15 December 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Elizabeth F. Drexler is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Michigan State University. She is the author of Aceh, Indonesia.

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