Abstract
It is 1966 in the town of Maumere, Flores, Indonesia. A man named Jan Djong is murdered in the jail by people he knew personally. Two little-known local documents written shortly afterwards trace the 20-year history leading up to that murder. Both depict Djong as a hazardous individual, yet both place the citizenship struggles he led at the centre of their narrative about him.
His story exemplifies the agonistic twentieth-century struggles that people in many postcolonial countries have waged to be treated as citizens. Conventional citizenship theory has not known what to do with these struggles, which hardly fit the ideal mold of civic, deliberative movements for rights. This book aims to rethink citizenship theory, so that it can explain popular politics in most of the world.
A citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed.
Aristotle, Politics
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Da Gomez in his publications repeatedly dates this demonstration to February 1953, but the police letter proves it was held in June.
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His home town is Ramstein.
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The Greek for citizen is πολίτης, politis, one who belongs to the city (πόλις–polis).
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van Klinken, G. (2019). Murder in Maumere. In: Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6725-0_1
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