Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights and Dichotomies of Personhood

Hamzić, Vanja

Abstract

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.

Citation

Hamzić, V. (2011, December). Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights and Dichotomies of Personhood. Presented at Queer at King's Lectures Series, King's College London

• Presentation Conference Type: Presentation / Talk
• Conference Name: Queer at King's Lectures Series
• Start Date: Dec 1, 2011
• End Date: Dec 1, 2011
• Deposit Date: Sep 4, 2013
• Keywords: Indonesia, Ipseity, Archipelago, Gender, Sexuality
• Additional Information: Event Type : Other