Indonesia’s Cigarette Economy


2024. Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia. Oakland: University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520399679/kretek-capitalism

2023 Netflix’s ‘Cigarette Girl’ Promotes Big Tobacco Interests in Indonesia. The Messenger. November 24. https://themessenger.com/opinion/kretek-indonesia-netflix-cigarette-girl-romanticizes-big-tobacco-exotic

2021     Indonesia’s Cigarette Culture Wars: Contesting Tobacco Regulations in the Postcolony. Comparative Studies in Society and History 63(4):911-947. Welker_2021_CigCultureWars_CSSH

2018   The Architecture of Cigarette Circulation: Marketing Work on Indonesia’s Retail Infrastructure. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24:669-691. Welker_2018_CigCirculation_JRAI-vvd595

2017    Kretek Capitalism: Sampoerna and Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia. Southeast Asia Program Bulletin.   Cornell University, Winter: 4-7.

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