Afterlives and Alter-lives: How Competitions Produce (Neoliberal?) Subjects in Indonesia.
Indonesia has long employed competitions as means of improving 'human resource quality,' believing competitions to elicit fantasies of achievement that, even if unrealized, motivate participants to self-cultivate in ways generative for the nation. Meanwhile, scholarly critics argue that such policie...
| Publicado en: | Social Analysis Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 112 - 134 |
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Berghahn Books
Winter2022
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