TY - BOOK ID - 78718835 TI - Creole identity in postcolonial Indonesia PY - 2014 SN - 1782382690 9781782382690 9781782382683 1782382682 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnicity KW - Creoles KW - Postcolonialism KW - Ethnic conflict KW - Conflict, Ethnic KW - Ethnic violence KW - Inter-ethnic conflict KW - Interethnic conflict KW - Ethnic relations KW - Social conflict KW - Post-colonialism KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Political science KW - Decolonization KW - Racially mixed people KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Cultural fusion KW - Multiculturalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Ethnic identity. KW - Social conditions. KW - Jakarta (Indonesia) KW - Djakarta (Indonesia) KW - Batavia (Indonesia) KW - Betawi (Indonesia) KW - Yajiada (Indonesia) KW - Jakarta Raya (Indonesia) KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Politics and government. KW - Ethnicité KW - Créoles KW - Postcolonialisme KW - Conflits ethniques KW - Social conditions KW - Identité ethnique KW - Conditions sociales KW - Djakarta (Indonésie) KW - Politics and government KW - Relations interethniques KW - Administration KW - Ethnicity-Indonesia-Jakarta. KW - Creoles-Indonesia-Jakarta-Ethnic identity. KW - Creoles-Indonesia-Jakarta-Social conditions. KW - Postcolonialism-Indonesia-Jakarta. KW - Ethnic conflict-Indonesia-Jakarta. KW - Jakarta (Indonesia)-Ethnic relations. KW - Jakarta (Indonesia)-Social conditions. KW - Jakarta (Indonesia)-Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78718835 AB - Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the ER -