Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies?

Hamzić, Vanja

Abstract

This paper offers a brief genealogical analysis of sexual and gender diversity in Indonesia. It traces various streams of regulation, including those reliant on liberal legalistic discourse of human rights. It is argued that this discourse remains inapt to account for numerous local identitary frictions, transitions and re-appropriations owed, inter alia, to distinct non-sexual and non-gender communitarian dynamics. Instead, it continues to usher in an alien dichotomy of personhood, whose referential, idealised ‘self’ and juxtaposed ‘other’ are both violently simplified and tainted with heightened ideological overtones.

Citation

Hamzić, V. (2011, September). Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies?. Presented at Human Rights Beyond the Law: Politics, Practices, Performances of Protest, Jindal Global University, Sonipat and New Delhi, India

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: Human Rights Beyond the Law: Politics, Practices, Performances of Protest
• Start Date: Sep 1, 2011
• End Date: Sep 1, 2011
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2011
• Deposit Date: Sep 4, 2013
• Keywords: Indonesia, Human Rights, Sexuality, Gender, Grand Dichotomies, Neoliberalism
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference