Informality and citizenship: the everyday state in Indonesia

Berenschot, Ward; Klinken, Gerry van

doi:10.1080/13621025.2018.1445494

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“…Van Dijk (2011a) argues that the personalized nature of Indian bureaucracy (see also Gupta et al ., ), coupled with the state's low infrastructural power, results in ‘gaps between both the formal–legal channels of entitlement actualization (and informal channels) and differently positioned places or collectivities’ (van Dijk, : 307). Similar conditions can be found in other postcolonial cities where the demand for government services outstrips supply, increasing the likelihood of ‘informal regimes of citizenship’ (Berenschot and van Klinken, ), clientelism, and other forms of patronage. Local state actors, including street‐level bureaucrats and politicians, are critical to entitlements in such contexts.…”

Section: Citizen Entitlementssupporting

confidence: 59%

“…The practices through which informal governance is manifested are not, however, without logic. Studies of ‘everyday governance’ point to the significance of discourses, rationalities and normative registers that underpin practices, state‐society relations, and—thereby—differential citizen entitlements (Cornea et al ., ; Berenschot and van Klinken, ). The fluidity and informal nature of these practices enable citizens to exercise agency in manoeuvring to maximize their access to urban resources (Johnston, ; Ranganathan, ; Allen and Hofman, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Familiar Face of the State: Affect, Emotion and Citizen Entitlements in Dehradun, India

Jakimow¹

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Municipal Councillors (MCs) are the 'familiar face of the state' in Dehradun, India: the first port of call for citizens seeking to claim entitlements from the state. The way MCs respond to the requests of their constituents is a major factor in the uneven distribution of government welfare and services. This article seeks to contribute to understandings of citizen entitlements by drawing attention to the role of affect and emotion in shaping the interactions between MCs and voters. I examine the ways citizens consciously or unconsciously engender emotions and affective responses, and the effect these have in mobilizing MCs. Attention to the, at times, involuntary nature of these responses suggests a need to go beyond the instrumental and calculating motivations of municipal councillors, to consider the way they are compelled and animated to meet the demands of some citizens, but not of others. The capacity to affect, and the ways one is affected, are tied to the social identities and self-making projects of both the MC and the voter, resulting in an uneven (mal)distribution of state resources. A focus on affective configurations in urban governance thereby reveals heretofore overlooked determinants of unequal access to urban resources and services.

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Section: Citizen Entitlementssupporting

confidence: 59%

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confidence: 99%

The Familiar Face of the State: Affect, Emotion and Citizen Entitlements in Dehradun, India

Jakimow¹

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Van Schendel (2002) offers the idea of proxy citizens in these enclaves, drawing on those who were treated with special care by the host state based on their religious identities; that is, Hindus were proxy citizens of India inside the Bangladeshi enclaves and vice versa. This demonstrates that enclave residents were not formally recognised as citizens by either of the states but an “informal relationship of citizenship” always existed between the sovereign and the enclave dwellers based on religious identities or through numerous acts of citizenship and belonging (Berenschot and van Klinken 2018). Informal relationship, in this sense, refers to the use of personal connections or traits that facilitates an off‐the‐paper interaction with the state through numerous actors.…”

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Sovereign Atonement: (Non)citizenship, Territory, and State‐Making in Post‐Colonial South Asia

Ferdoush

2020

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The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India, which were small pieces of one state entirely surrounded by the other, existed as extraterritorial spaces from 1947 until 2015. Since these spaces were subject to state violence but remained completely excluded from the protections provided by courts, police, and government, they have historically been understood as spaces of exception that contained bare lives. After the exchange of enclaves in 2015, the situation changed dramatically as the state assumed an active role in incorporating new lands and citizens. Such an active role resulted in unique privileges exclusively for the enclave residents understood here as sovereign atonement. Drawing on field research in Bangladesh, however, the paper argues that it would be misleading to capture sovereign atonement as an effort to correct the past violence of extraterritorial exclusion; instead it must be understood through the primacy of territory in state‐making in post‐colonial South Asia.

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“…However, such equal position does not apply to all countries. Brenschot and Klinken [13] studies in some postcolonial countries, including Indonesia, found that citizen engagement is formed through an informal interaction between citizen and government through mediated channel such as broker, reciting old values and social network. Well informed and connected citizen may increase their ability to access public services.…”

Section: Citizen Engagement: Interrelation Of Structure Culture and mentioning

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Determinants of citizen engagement in rural water supply and sanitation services in Indonesia

Kasri

Wirutomo

2018

E3S Web Conf.

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Community-based development approach has been successful in accelerating access to rural water supply and sanitation in Indonesia. However, it suffers with criticism on its effectiveness to sustain services and to protect environment. A transformation of approach to citizen engagement is promoted to achieve better development outcomes. Through case study in four villages, this study diagnosed what define and determine citizen engagement in Indonesian rural water supply and sanitation. Determinants of citizen engagement is synthesized by using narrative thematic analysis for the qualitative data and principal component analysis for 708 household survey data. It found that citizen engagement is an interrelation of structure, culture and process elements of social life. Sustainable service of rural water supply and sanitation should be seen as enriched and restructured management cycle with citizen engagement concept. The study offers an improved service delivery cycle of rural water supply developed by Lockwood and Smith in 2011. Method of analysis and the findings of this study demonstrate the integration of sociological and environmental science perspectives. It also provides input to strengthen rural water supply and sanitation programs, especially Pamsimas and STBM, the two biggest government development programs for rural water and sanitation in Indonesia.

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Informality and citizenship: the everyday state in Indonesia

Cited by 48 publications

References 64 publications

The Familiar Face of the State: Affect, Emotion and Citizen Entitlements in Dehradun, India

The Familiar Face of the State: Affect, Emotion and Citizen Entitlements in Dehradun, India

Sovereign Atonement: (Non)citizenship, Territory, and State‐Making in Post‐Colonial South Asia

Determinants of citizen engagement in rural water supply and sanitation services in Indonesia

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