12 points
* 2 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton
Objectives As for ASM4230 in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.
Synopsis Rapid social change stimulates existing social and cultural divisions and gives rise to new bases of conflict. Indonesia is a plural society made up of many groups distinguishable on ethnic, religious, linguistic and other cultural grounds. It is also a modern mass society undergoing rapid industrialisation, urbanisation and agricultural transformation. This subject will analyse the processes of class formation and conflict within the context of the political economy of structural change in Indonesia. It will examine the cultural mediation of conflict, the cultural reproduction of group identity, and the dynamics of social movements engendered by modernisation - mass movements which draw on the symbols of Islam, ethnicity, nationalism, and various political ideologies.
Assessment Class exercise (3000 words): 30%
* Essay (6000 words):
70%
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