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Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia (Leksana, 2023)

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Grace Leksana's 2023 open-access monograph on Donomulyo, South Malang, a 'red area' with a 'hamlet of widows', using army archives and 38 life histories to argue memory of 1965 is 'embedded' in local patronage and class. Local study of remembering.

Monografi akses terbuka Grace Leksana 2023 tentang Donomulyo, Malang Selatan, 'daerah merah' dengan 'dusun janda', memakai arsip tentara dan 38 riwayat hidup untuk berargumen bahwa ingatan 1965 'tertanam' dalam patronase dan kelas lokal. Studi lokal tentang pengingatan.

People

Grace LeksanaHenk Schulte NordholtGerry van KlinkenMartijn Eickhoff

Organisations

Brawijaya Military Command (East Java)KITLVNIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Places

DonomulyoSouth MalangEast Java

Events

Mass killings of 1965–66

Topics

memory, testimony and justicekillings 1965–66peasant womenmuseums and monumentshistoriography

Tags

widowsoral history

Details

Date
2023
Creator
Leksana
Document type
thesis (monograph (revised doctoral dissertation, historical anthropology))
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
Netherlands
Period
1999–present
Access
Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Leksana, G. T. (2023). Memory culture of the anti-leftist violence in Indonesia: Embedded remembering. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463723565
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Leksana (2023) - Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.935) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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