• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I’d recommend The Jakarta Method, by Vincent Bevins, for a really excellent look at this topic. People in Indonesia were excited to join the world-stage in the third wave of modernization of government (third-world was not a pejorative term at the time). Of course, a rightwing coup put a stop to that and the west pillaged resources, as usual.

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      1 year ago

      I preordered this physical book on release and was really excited to read it but I could never finish it unfortunately. Got bored somewhere in the middle.