Queer Social Movements and Activism in Indonesia and Malaysia

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.

Focuses on queer activism and queer social movements in the Global South Presents different models of activism and activist work throughout the Global South Explores the NGO-ization of queer activism and what it means to practice activism a globalized world

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt
Introduction: Queer activism and the politics of sexuality and gender in Indonesia and Malaysia.- PART 1.- An Assemblage of theories in understanding social and queer Activism.- Marginal militants: Queer reclaiming, politics, and activism in the global north.- Politics of modernity: Hybridity, sexual politics and queer movements in the global south.- PART 2.- Politics of doors: Queer activism in Malaysia as technologies of the self.- Politics of (un)intelligibility: Trans*activism in Indonesia.- Politics of re-orientations: HIV/AIDS activism in Indonesia.- Conclusion: Queer activism as will to knowledge.