Sheri Lynn Gibbings
Shadow Play: Information Politics in Urban Indonesia
Shadow Play: Information Politics in Urban Indonesia
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Shadow Play, by anthropologist Sheri Lynn Gibbings, demonstrates how information politics are used by the municipal government of Yogyakarta to implement urban projects and how street vendors, activists, and NGOs can challenge these plans. Gibbings' study shows that transparency, rumors, conspiracies, and surveillance practices create suspicion, fear, and new solidarities, while also dissolving relationships. Understanding these complexities is essential for understanding urban projects in post-Suharto Indonesia and the resistance to them.
\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 320 pages
\n Publication date: 20 August 2021
\n Publisher: University of Toronto Press
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In Indonesia, the government has been organizing relocations of street vendors, a topic explored in Shadow Play, a film that delves into the complexities of information politics. Anthropologist Sheri Lynn Gibbings highlights how information politics play a crucial role in the implementation of urban projects by the municipal government of Yogyakarta. She demonstrates that street vendors, activists, and NGOs utilize information politics as a means to challenge these plans and advocate for their rights.
Through extensive interviews and lengthy participant observation in Yogyakarta, Gibbings reveals that both state and non-state actors engage in transparency, rumors, conspiracies, and surveillance practices. These entangled information practices create suspicion, fear, form new solidarities, and dissolve relationships.
Shadow Play is a compelling study that emphasizes the importance of understanding the complexities embedded in information practices when examining urban projects in post-Suharto Indonesia and the resistance to them. It sheds light on the ways in which information is used as a tool to manipulate public opinion, shape policy decisions, and maintain power structures. By exploring the dynamics of information politics, Shadow Play provides valuable insights into the ongoing struggles between street vendors, the government, and other stakeholders in the urban landscape of Indonesia.
\n Weight: 494g\n
Dimension: 209 x 232 x 24 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781487525729\n \n
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