Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights and Dichotomies of Personhood

• Main Author: Hamzić, Vanja
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: GN Anthropology; HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform; KL Asia and Eurasia; Africa; Pacific Area; and Antarctica; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/16988/

This talk presents a brief legal anthropological account of the narratives and politics of representation of various human subjectivities in Indonesia who transgress the dominant universalising sexual and gender norms. It traces both macro- and micro-streams of regulation, including those reliant on liberal legalistic discourse of human rights, whose extremities produce the stringent ‘heteronormative’ versus ‘homonormative’ poles – the two mutually reinforcing otherworlds bereft of the intrinsic complexity of sexual/gender experience across the country’s archipelagic and islandic selves.