Greetings from Jakarta: Postcards of a Capital 1900-1950 is the most comprehensive visual record of Jakarta ever published covering the first half of the twentieth century which was also the last half century of colonial rule. Four hundred and sixty postcards from the author's own collection are brought together here to reveal a city that has largely vanished and is barely recognizable even to …
Selama berabad-abad, oligarki diperkuat oleh kekayaan; anggapan ini dikacaukan oleh teori elite pada awal abad kedua puluh. Kesamaan berbagai oligarki sepanjang sejarah adalah bahwa kekayaan mendefinisikan dan memperkuatnya, dan secara inheren membuat oligarki terancam. Motif keberadaan semua oligarki adalah mempertahankan kekayaan itu bermacam-macam, tergantung ancaman apa yang dihadapi, terma…
Dilihat dari dimensi primordial, wilayah administratif Banten tidak identik dengan teritori etnik, karena di dalamnya hidup kelompok-kelompok masyarakat yang secara sadar mengidentikan diri dengan budaya Sunda. Jawa bahkan juga Betawi khususnya di daerah Tangerang. Tetapi dari dimensi instrumental, komunitas-komunitas itu telah menemukan sendiri cara untuk membentuk identitas lebih luas dalam b…
In this classic work that continues to inspire its many readers, James Lovelock deftly explains his idea that life on earth functions as a single organism. Written for the non-scientist, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which to support a new and radically different model of our planet. In contrast to conventional belief that living matter is passive in the f…
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the twentieth century. Marx's ecological critique of capitalism, however, revives in the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism. Inves…
This book presents case studies of citizenship in diverse contexts and angles to reveal how citizens engage in public life. It aims to bring citizens and citizenship to the fore, instead of leaving them in the background of the democratisation studies and real democratisation processes. Democracy is far more than granting individual rights to citizens. Democracy, in this book, is a matter of ci…
Pendekatan pembangunan inklusif yang digagas pemerintah belum berbasiskan pemahaman terhadap situasi khas dan keragaman masyarakat adat di Indonesia. Padahal, pemanfaatan sumber daya lokal dapat menjadi pilar dalam mencapai kedaulatan pangan di Indonesia. Buku ini berpendapat, model pembangunan inklusif seharusnya memperhitungkan keragaman karakteristik masyarakat lokal, khususnya jalan pang…
The first edition of Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism, published in 1977, was a pioneering work that legitimatized the American academic study of tourism, and provided both a preliminary theoretical perspective and twelve case studies documenting the impacts of tourism. The book owed its genesis to the first national academic symposium on tourism, held in conjunction with the 1974 …
Encountering the Past in Nature provides instructive examples of how environmental historians are working with a wide variety of interdisciplinary approaches to shed light on the complex ecological processes of the past. Environmental historians are forging new perspectives by integrating data and insights from both the natural and social sciences in order to write environmentally informed hist…
Sejarah sering kali menghadirkan orang-orang besar. Padahal, peristiwa besar, misalnya kemerdekaan tidaklah lepas dari peran rakyat kebanyakan. Harapan untuk memperkaya narasi sejarah dan historiografi revolusi kemerdekaan Indonesia, terutama melihat peristiwa kemerdekan dari sudut pandang rakyat kebanyakan merupakan alasan buku ini hadir. Buku ini berisi delapan artikel yang disarikan dari kar…