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The Anxieties of Mobility: Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands

The Anxieties of Mobility: Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 93 Despite this misgiving Collective Creativity raises many significant issues that have broad applicability, especially those to do with the politics of indigeneity, questions of representation and cultural authority, and intellectual and cultural property rights. It is an important and interesting contribution to sociological and anthropological understandings of artistic production embedded in global and transnational flows. KALISSA ALEXEYEFF The University of Melbourne # 2012, Kalissa Alexeyeff JOHAN A. LINDQUIST Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2009 viii, 193 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8248-3315-2 (paperback) Lindquist’s study contributes to a growing number of ethnographies of globalisation. Based on his PhD thesis, the book examines working-class marginality on the Indonesian island of Batam in the Riau Archipelago which forms the ‘borderlands’ between Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Batam was part of the failed Indonesia- Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle (IMS-GT) and continues to be part of a free trade zone with Singapore. It has been the site of significant levels of investment from multinational corporations and Singaporean government-linked companies. At the time when Lindquist conducted his doctoral fieldwork (which forms the core of the book’s analysis), Batam was reeling from a massive economic downturn associated with the Asian financial crisis of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

The Anxieties of Mobility: Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands

Lyons, Lenore
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 13 (1): 3 – Feb 1, 2012
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The Anxieties of Mobility: Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 93 Despite this misgiving Collective Creativity raises many significant issues that have broad applicability, especially those to do with the politics of indigeneity, questions of representation and cultural authority, and intellectual and cultural property rights. It is an important and interesting contribution to sociological and anthropological understandings of artistic production embedded in global and transnational flows. KALISSA ALEXEYEFF The...
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Taylor & Francis
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Copyright Lenore Lyons
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1740-9314
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1444-2213
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10.1080/14442213.2012.645792
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Abstract

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 93 Despite this misgiving Collective Creativity raises many significant issues that have broad applicability, especially those to do with the politics of indigeneity, questions of representation and cultural authority, and intellectual and cultural property rights. It is an important and interesting contribution to sociological and anthropological understandings of artistic production embedded in global and transnational flows. KALISSA ALEXEYEFF The University of Melbourne # 2012, Kalissa Alexeyeff JOHAN A. LINDQUIST Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2009 viii, 193 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8248-3315-2 (paperback) Lindquist’s study contributes to a growing number of ethnographies of globalisation. Based on his PhD thesis, the book examines working-class marginality on the Indonesian island of Batam in the Riau Archipelago which forms the ‘borderlands’ between Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Batam was part of the failed Indonesia- Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle (IMS-GT) and continues to be part of a free trade zone with Singapore. It has been the site of significant levels of investment from multinational corporations and Singaporean government-linked companies. At the time when Lindquist conducted his doctoral fieldwork (which forms the core of the book’s analysis), Batam was reeling from a massive economic downturn associated with the Asian financial crisis of

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