This book examines queer activism and queer social movements (QSMs) in Indonesia and Malaysia, broadly engaging with these topics on three different levels: macro (global and national discourses), meso (organizational level – activities), and micro (individual – the activist). The micro level perspective allows for moving beyond the “traditional” political movement paradigm by understanding activism in Foucauldian terms as the ethics of the self (Foucault, 1984). In other words, the queer subject is seen as an active agent in taking care of the self by queering/resisting gender norms as well as heteronormative practices and regimes in their social environment through embodiment and actions. This kind of ethical being has the potential to build support and community between and amongst individuals.
Author(s): Jón Ingvar Kjaran, Mohammad Naeimi
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 206
City: Cham
Acknowledgment
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Queer Activism and the Politics of Sexuality and Gender in Indonesia and Malaysia
Queer Activism at the Micro Level
Indonesia and Malaysia: Precarious Conditions and Politics of Queer Activism
The Fieldwork and Data Collection
Positionally and Assemblage of Being
Outlines of the Book
References
Part I
Chapter 2: An Assemblage of Theories in Understanding Social and Queer Activism
Poststructural Turn: Foucauldian Treatment of Power, Resistance, Discourse, and Governmentality
Poststructural Feminism: Butler’s Conceptualization of Gender Performativity and the Heterosexual Matrix
Queer Phenomenology: Ahmed’s Combination of Queer Theory, Postcolonialism, and Phenomenology
Foucault, Resistance, Heterotopias, and Liminal Space(s)
Technologies of the Self: Caring and Knowing
Thinking Diffractively About Theory
References
Chapter 3: Marginal Militants: Queer Reclaiming, Politics, and Activism in the Global North
The Earlier Gay Liberation Movements in the Global North
Toward Gayness and the Politics of Gayness After the Homophile Movement
Gay Imagined Community and Identity Politics
Queer Theory, Queer Politics, and Queer Hegemonic Discourse
References
Chapter 4: Politics of Modernity: Hybridity, Sexual Politics, and Queer Movements in the Global South
Project of Modernity, Problem of Modernity
Hybrid Modernity
Reading Massad: Sexual Imperialism
Sexual Politics and Queer Activism in Indonesia and Malaysia
References
Part II
Chapter 5: Politics of Doors: Queer Activism in Malaysia as Technologies of the Self
Organizational Practices
Navigating Risk and Security
Entanglements
Documentation and Education
Knock, Knock, I Am Here, Is Someone There?
References
Chapter 6: Politics of (Un)Intelligibility: Trans*Activism in Indonesia
Learning Together: Creating a Community of Support in Aceh
A Pesantren for Warias: Heterotopic Space of Being
The Salon and the Street as a Space(s) of Public Pedagogy
References
Chapter 7: Politics of Reorientations: HIV/AIDS Activism in Indonesia
Contextualizing HIV/AIDS: Grievability, Livability, and Precarity
Changing the Narrative on HIV and AIDS Through Reorientation
HIV Youth Activism
Conclusions
References
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Queer Activism as Will to Knowledge
References
Index
