
Infrastructures of Impunity
New Order Violence in Indonesia
Elizabeth F. Drexler(Author)
Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University (Publisher)
Published on 15. December 2023
Book
Hardback
282 pages
978-1-5017-7309-9 (ISBN)
Description
In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. 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, and social stigmatization and demonstrating its contingency and specific actions, policies, and processes that would begin to dismantle it. Drexler contends that an infrastructure of impunity could take hold in an established democracy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Publishing group
Cornell University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
20 b&w halftones - 20 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-7309-9 (9781501773099)
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Cornell University East Asia Program
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Person
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.
Content
Introduction: Truth and Infrastructures of Impunity
1. Building the Foundation for Impunity
2. The Forgotten Mysterious Killings
3. Resist Forgetting
4. Narrating What is Known
5. Law without justice
6. The Red Thread
Conclusion: Infrastructures of Impunity beyond Indonesia
1. Building the Foundation for Impunity
2. The Forgotten Mysterious Killings
3. Resist Forgetting
4. Narrating What is Known
5. Law without justice
6. The Red Thread
Conclusion: Infrastructures of Impunity beyond Indonesia