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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 policies encourage a counterproductive competitive individualism that serves the interests of neoliberal capitalism. This article complicates both of these understandings of what competition does. I show that Indonesians may participate in competitions out of a desire to provide for, and receive recognition from, family, mentors, and the state. When the afterlives of competition fail to live up to this ideal, competitors can become alienated from the relations and institutions they blame for thwarting the 'alter-life' that could have been, subsequently embracing individualism and the market.

In 2006, the Indonesian state re-recognised Confucianism as an official religion, but this did not have the straightforwardly positive consequences that either Confucianist revivalists or some theorists of recognition might have predicted. Revivalists were often—but not always—gripped by feelings of outrage and moral torment, whilst the pace of the revival itself was very uneven. These varied outcomes reflect the complex politics pervading the lives of Indonesian Confucianists (and Chinese Indonesians more generally) as post-Suharto reforms force them to grapple with their diverse histories of accommodation and resistance to the New Order's discriminatory policies. To fully understand such material, first-person moral perspectives must be incorporated into critical anthropological studies of recognition, as a complement to approaches focused on power and domination. Doing so reveals an important general truth about recognition—its capacity to be morally disruptive—and broadens our understanding of why recognition can hurt those it ostensibly stands to benefit.

AbstractThis article examines how the Indonesian state's efforts to style itself as an Islamic authority have influenced the behaviour of its Muslim citizens. I present cases in which Muslims in Indonesia's Riau Islands comply with Islamic state directives in order to transfer responsibility for their actions to the state, showing how such a mode of practice can support Islamic governmentality, bolster nationalism, and constrain civic activism. Interestingly, compliance may occur even when citizens harbour deep misgivings towards a directive, leading me to query whether suspicion is necessarily inimical to authority. I conclude that a pronouncement's Islamic authority hinges on how Muslims relate to their suspicions regarding it, and that, for Riau Islanders, suspicion's urgency has been tempered by cultural models of personhood, individual subjectivity, and the moral murk of post‐Suharto Indonesia.

This article examines how the Indonesian state's efforts to style itself as an Islamic authority have influenced the behaviour of its Muslim citizens. I present cases in which Muslims in Indonesia's Riau Islands comply with Islamic state directives in order to transfer responsibility for their actions to the state, showing how such a mode of practice can support Islamic governmentality, bolster nationalism, and constrain civic activism. Interestingly, compliance may occur even when citizens harbour deep misgivings towards a directive, leading me to query whether suspicion is necessarily inimical to authority. I conclude that a pronouncement's Islamic authority hinges on how Muslims relate to their suspicions regarding it, and that, for Riau Islanders, suspicion's urgency has been tempered by cultural models of personhood, individual subjectivity, and the moral murk of post-Suharto Indonesia.

What happens when people "achieve"? Why do reactions to "achievement" vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart of this volume. Drawing on research from Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America, this collection develops an innovative framework for explaining achievement's multiple effects-one which brings together cutting-edge theoretical insights into politics, psychology, ethics, materiality, aurality, embodiment, affect and narrative. In doing so, the volume advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology, emphasizing the significance of achievement as a moment of cultural invention, and the complexity of "the achiever" as a subject position.

Introduction: Sociality's new directions -- Avatars and robots: the imaginary present and the socialities of the inorganic -- Imagining the world that warrants our imagination: the revelation of ontogeny -- Sociality and its dangers: witchcraft, intimacy and trust -- Group belonging in trade unions: idioms of sociality in Bolivia and Argentina -- Utopian sociality. Online -- A sociality of, and beyond, 'my-home' in post-corporate Japan -- Actants Amassing (AA) -- Doing, being and becoming: the sociality of children with Autism in activities with therapy dogs and other people -- Materials and sociality -- The art of slow sociality: movement, aesthetics and shared understanding.

Introduction: Achievement and Its Social Life / Nicholas J. Long & Henrietta L. Moore -- Chapter 1. The Achievement of a Life, a List, a Line / Kathleen Stewart -- Chapter 2. Against the Odds: A Professional Gambler's Narrative of Achievement / Rebecca Cassidy -- Chapter 3. Men of Sound Reputation: The Passionate Aurality of Achievement in Guyanese Birdsport / Laura H. Mentore -- Chapter 4. Political Dimensions of Achievement Psychology: Perspectives on Selfhood, Confidence and Policy from a New Indonesian Province / Nicholas J. Long Chapter -- 5. Directive and Definitive Knowledge: Experiencing Achievement in a Thai Meditation Monastery / Joanna Cook Chaqpter -- 6. Autism and Affordances of Achievement: Narrative Genres and Parenting Practices / Olga Solomon -- Chapter 7. Achievement and Private Equity in the UK: A Game of Abstraction, Sociality and Making Money / Sarah F. Green -- Chapter 8. For Family, State, and Nation: Achieving Cosmopolitan Modernity in Late-Socialist Vietnam / Susan Bayly -- Chapter 9. Practicing Responsibilisation: The Unwritten Curriculum for Achievement in an American Suburb / Peter Demerath -- Chapter 10. Competing to Lose: (Black) Female School Success as Pyrrhic Victory / Signithia Fordham -- Notes on Contributors; Index.