Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia

by Karen Strassler

Book Overview

The end of authoritarian rule in 1998 ushered in an exhilarating but unsettled period of democratization in Indonesia. A more open political climate converged with a rapidly changing media landscape, yielding a vibrant and volatile public sphere within which Indonesians grappled with the possibilities and limits of democracy amid entrenched corruption, state violence, and rising forms of intolerance. In Demanding Images Karen Strassler theorizes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147800469X
• ISBN13: 9781478004691
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"