Queer Social Movements and Activism in Indonesia and Malaysia

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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. 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