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Focusing on Surabaya, Peters argues that the purge was a conservative counter-revolution, communicated through a culturally specific type of violence aimed at disaggregating the usurping and recalcitrant body of the common person. That body was a politically empowered one expressed in popular forms like the clown theatres of the urban poor, and in collective political forms like Communist neighborhood administrations. Peters understands this violence in the context of the popular takeover of land and political authority in Surabaya in the two decades after the revolution: a period in which the Communists established a foothold in the many fiercely autonomous urban slums, restricting the influence there of the district and provincial military commands and the city’s conservative Muslim power base.
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Peters, R. (2018). A Rite of De-modernization: The Anti-Communist Purge in Surabaya. In: McGregor, K., Melvin, J., Pohlman, A. (eds) The Indonesian Genocide of 1965. Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71455-4_7
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