Democracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its
election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward …

In a novel approach to the field of Islamic politics, this provocative new study compares the
evolution of Islamic populism in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in …

Treating the “state” as a finished product gets in the way of understanding it. The state is
always in the making. This article, which acts as the Introduction to a special issue, argues …

Questions of who can access land and who is excluded from it underlie many recent social
and political conflicts in Southeast Asia. Powers of Exclusion examines the key processes …

In Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity—but
what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as …

Political violence remains a pervasive feature of electoral dynamics in many countries in
Sub-Saharan Africa, even where multiparty elections have become the dominant mode of …

At present the contestation of the Indonesian state's dispossessory policies regarding land
and other natural resources is dominated by a discourse based on adat. This situation is …

In order to explain the emergence of violent conflicts, an increasing number of academic
studies have focused on the role of inequalities between 'culturally'defined groups or …

Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an
accessible and engaging style, Islam and Nation presents a fascinating study of the genesis …

Three decades of authoritarian rule in Indonesia came to a sudden end in 1998. The
collapse of the Soeharto regime was accompanied by massive economic decline …