Communication against Capital
Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia
- 318 pages
- English
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About this book
Communication against Capital explores the revolutionary communication strategies of the pergerakan merah, the anticolonial "red movement" in 1920s Indonesia. Rianne Subijanto tells the story of ordinary lower-class women and children and people of diverse races and ethnicities who waged their battles against Dutch colonialism within multiple arenas of communication, including political associations, assemblies, printed matter, schools, and shipping lines. Existing communication technologies were repurposed into mechanisms of struggle and used as weapons in anticolonial and anticapitalist resistance. In this process, communist ideas merged with ideals drawn from the Enlightenment to shape the emancipatory spirit of Indonesians. This red enlightenment motivated the production of revolutionary communication strategies of mobilization.
Subijanto's innovative work shows that the novel techniques of the pergerakan merah served to shift anticolonial mobilization in Indonesia from warfare to modern forms of communication.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Introduction: The Pergerakan Merah as an Event of Communication
- 1. Means of Colonialism as a Means of Resistance
- 2. Red Enlightenment in the Roarin’ Twenties
- 3. Geography of Resistance
- 4. Openbare Vergaderingen and Cultures of Resistance
- 5. “The War of Pens and Words”
- 6. In the Name of Public Peace and Order
- 7. The Other Labor of Clandestine Sailors
- Coda: The Enlightenment Project Is Necessary and Unending
- Appendix A. List of Cartoons Published in Sinar Hindia/API in 1918–26
- Appendix B. List of Songs Published in Sinar Hindia/API in 1918–26
- Appendix C. List of Slogans Published in Sinar Hindia/API in 1918–26
- Appendix D. Speakers and Chairpersons Collected from Reports on Openbare Vergaderingen Held in 1920–25
- Notes
- Archival Sources
- Index