De-Essentialising Violence in Indonesia: John Sidel’s ‘Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia’
Thursday, June 10th, 2010De-Essentialising Violence in Indonesia John Sidel, Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2006 279 pgs. Paperback Explaining communal, ethnic and religious violence via recourse to essentialised understandings of ethnic identity and cultural difference is about as silly and illogical as trying to explain corruption in terms of genetic [...]
