The “crowd gone mad”. Violence and autochthony in Reformasi Java.
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https://doi.org/10.14672/ada2008156%25pKeywords:
Java, autochthony, social exclusion , violenceAbstract
The article analyzes the political use of the notion of autochthony during the Indonesian crisis of 1997-2000. It examines how the notion of autochthony was used to justify violence against Sino-Indonesians and vagrants in Java in the aftermath of the fall of President Suharto. Autochthony, linked to the notion of origin and genealogy, fostered the construction of a local community mythology, culminating in incidents of lynching and discrimination. Bertrand stresses the importance of historical and political contextualization in understanding the dynamics of social exclusion and violence.
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