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Gender, Islam, nationalism and the state in Aceh : the paradox of power, co-optation and resistance / Jacqueline Aquino Siapno

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Siapno, Jacqueline Aquino
Published
Abingdon, Oxon : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Ch. 1. Power, hegemony, and agency : the ambiguity of women's political subjectivity in Aceh -- ch. 2. Women's political agency in a region of armed conflict -- ch. 3. Gender and the problem of power in history and historiography -- ch. 4. The poetics of space and representation : women in traditional manuscript literature -- ch. 5. Women in oral traditions and indigenous belief systems : an Acehnese tale: a story about Pak Pande who is so obnoxiously silly he drives his wife out of her wits -- ch. 6. The sacred and the political : piety and militancy in Aceh -- ch. 7. The unhappy marriage of Islam, nation and state -- ch. 8. NGOs, human rights regimes, and violence that cannot be inventoried.
Summary
This book sets out to open up the space for interpretation of history and politics in Aceh which is now in a state of armed rebellion against the Indonesian government. It lays out a groundwork for analysing how female agency is constituted in Aceh, in a complex interplay of indigenous matrifocality, Islamic belief and practices, state terror, and political violence. Analysts of the current conflict in Aceh have tended to focus on present events. Siapno provides a historical analysis of power, co-optation, and resistance in Aceh and links it to broader comparative studies of gender, Islam, and.
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ISBN
9781136859991 (electronic bk.)
1136859993 (electronic bk.)
9781315029078 (electronic bk.)
1315029073 (electronic bk.)
1136860061
9781136860065
0700715134
9780700715138
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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