Queer Social Movements and Activism in Indonesia and Malaysia
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jón Ingvar Kjaran is Professor of sociology of education and queer pedagogy in the School of Education at the University of Iceland. Their research focus is on sexuality, gender diversity, queer activism, HIV, migration and violence.
Mohammad Naeimi is Lecturer and Researcher in gender, politics, and education in the School of Education at the University of Iceland. His research concerns violence in formal and non-formal educational spaces, queer activism in the global south, queer pedagogy, and queer immigrants’ belonging formation.
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.
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).
“This book goes beyond the binarism between Northern queering as globalized cultural imperialism and Southern queer victimization assuming homogenous nativist essentialism. Kjaran and Naeimi collage a transnational assemblage of Southern-agentic queer activism and knowledge, where Ahmed, Bhabha, Deleuze, and Foucault converse with queer Malaysian door-knocking and Indonesian trans* and HIV/AIDS livability and (in)visibility. The book potentially helps strengthen the global Asian solidarity, for decolonization and emancipation, between Southeastern queers and Sinophone tóngzhì (comrades of gender/sexual politics).” (Ying-Chao Kao, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, and author of “The Coloniality of Queer Theory: The Effects of ‘Homonormativity’ on Transnational Taiwan’s Path to Equality”)
“Turning toward the micro-level, Kjaran and Naeimi take readers into the everyday lives and work of LGBTQ activists in the Global South to challenge universalized global discourses on genders and sexualities. They lift up the textures and particularities of local activists who are creating not only liminal spaces, but time, for queer livability. In narrating such activism and social movements, we are reminded of the continued contingent work of queer politics.” (Adam J. Greteman, associate professor of Art Education, School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jón Ingvar Kjaran is Professor of sociology of education and queer pedagogy in the School of Education at the University of Iceland. Their research focus is on sexuality, gender diversity, queer activism, HIV, migration and violence.
Mohammad Naeimi is Lecturer and Researcher in gender, politics, and education in the School of Education at the University of Iceland. His research concerns violence in formal and non-formal educational spaces, queer activism in the global south, queer pedagogy, and queer immigrants’ belonging formation.