Kaleidoscopic feelings: Faith narratives among Indonesian Muslim Queers

Thajib, Ferdiansyah

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2016.11.007

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“…Similar concerns are reiterated in a number of ethnographic studies that draw on the contextualised lived experiences of self-identified, same-sex loving or gender-variant individuals (Nyanzi 2013;Thajib 2014Thajib , 2015Thajib , 2017Nasser-Eddin et al 2018). In the work of these scholars, the focus is on a careful crafting of analytical frameworks depending on cultural and political contexts.…”

Section: Chakra Of Lifementioning

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“…Moving from activist spaces and spheres to beauty salons and contests, via hazardous wage labouring (see Chapter 7) and care for others, these snippets of life histories draw attention to the multiple faces of the queer in Aceh that cannot be reduced to a narrative of LGBTIs in need of saving, let alone a homogenous group whose demands, dreams and fears can be easily translated into 'global LGBTI' advocacy vocabulary. In fact, earlier research on the queer in Aceh illustrates that understandings of gender order and forms of sexuality are far from simple; rather, they have included a number of local practices of same-sex desires and fluid understandings of gender, in particular in relation to the religious and cultural practices connected with heteronormative marriage (Jauhola 2013;Thajib 2017). Before moving on to focus on the praxis of care and community, the next sections discuss the colonial histories of governing gender and sexuality, and the more recent context of the politicisation of gender and sexuality in Aceh over the past few years as part of negotiating the settlement of the armed conflict.…”

Section: Chakra Of Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The campaign proclamation focuses on the inherent impossibility of the equanimous coexistence of Islamic piety and non-heteronormal sexualness, thereby contracting lived experiences within the Indonesian archipelago (Boellstorff 2005a;Thajib 2017). The latter combination is, in fact, portrayed as a security threat to the societal order, and the suggested remedy is a return to the Islamist state and abandonment of secular state formation; thus, it can be seen as an active stance on the demand for decolonising the state.…”

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Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process

Jauhola

2020

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This book and the accompanied video documentaries would have not been possible without the support of a number of people over the past eight years, some going way beyond that, all the way to early 2000s at the Peace Station in Helsinki and dialogue with Acehnese human rights defenders. First of all, I want to thank all those Acehnese who allowed the project team and me to enter your homes and lives-I have a deep gratitude of having gained insights that led research towards appreciating Ilmu Bodoh, subaltern theorising on peace. On behalf of all of us who have formed the Scraps of Hope team during these years, we sincerely hope that we can live up to your expectations of this journey. Any representational biases and mistakes are solely ours. I also want to thank all the Acehnese counterpart organisations and their staff members, directors, researchers, lecturers and, most importantly, administrative staff members facilitating the paper bureaucracy related to foreign researcher visits in Aceh between the years 2012 and 2018. These institutions are the International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies (ICAIOS), the University of Malikussaleh (UNIMAL) and the Islamic State University Ar-Raniry (UIN). My special gratitude goes to the staff of the Embassy of Republic of Indonesia in Helsinki and in particular the Ambassador of Indonesia in Finland, H. E. Wiwiek Setyawati Firman, for facilitating the filming permissions for 2015, and taking part in the University of Helsinki Think Corner Talk-Poetry-Dance ZUBAIDAH DJOHAR: BUILDING A BOAT IN A PARADISE-FEMINIST LITERATURE THAT RESISTS FORGETTING xii Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh evening in November 2017. The Scraps of Hope team, daring to dream of a media-embedded, peer-reviewed monograph already in 2015, we truly were ahead of the times! Thank you Seija Hirstiö, Ariyuki Suzuki, Päivi Nikkilä, and Riitta Koikkalainen and Jukka Turunen for being part of Scraps of Hope! My gratitude for all the hard work by Rahmat in Aceh for essential logistics and additional camerawork in recordings in December 2015. Evi Sugianty (ICAIOS) and Mifta Sugesti-your professionalism in going through interview and video recordings, providing transcripts, translations and detailed comments on the draft videos, has provided deepened perspectives to ethnographic moments that could otherwise go unnoticed. My sincere thanks to poet, trainer, researcher and friend Ibed, Zubaidah Djohar and a colleague at UNIMAL campus Nanda Amalia, and all her colleagues who invited me to their classes in 2012. A special thank you to the Creative Minority student group for initiating the creative writing workshops leading to Zubaidah Djohar's edited book Dalam Keriput Yang Tak Usang: Suara Pemuda Dan Jalan Panjang Perdamaian Aceh and similarly, all the voluntary effort that went into writing, editing and publishing the book Bisu yang Bersuara, collection of writings of female survivors of violence in the midst of peace in Aceh after the initial joint writing workshop organized in August 2018. Similarly, the whol...

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2020

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“…It was precisely because these events were so discontinuous with my fieldwork experience that I felt compelled to analyze their significance (Boellstorff, 2004b). In that analysis, I emphasized that an explanation of this violence in terms of Islam was inadequate (see also Thajib, 2017). Since the archipelago has been majority Muslim for centuries, such an explanation could not address the emergence of violence against LGBT Indonesians at this point.…”

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Om toleran Om: four Indonesian reflections on digital heterosexism

Boellstorff

2019

Media, Culture & Society

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Beginning in January 2016, an unprecedented series of anti-LGBT events took place in Indonesia, the fourth most populous nation (after China, India, and the United States) and home to more Muslims than any other country. These events were notable for the pivotal role of digital media in their articulation and dissemination. In this article, I develop the notions of ‘digital heterosexism’ and ‘digital exclusionary populism’ to reflect on how these anti-LGBT events relate to earlier dynamics of oppression in the archipelago, and their possible consequences for Indonesia’s future. I focus on the shifting implications of media for subjectivity, community, and inequality – in the country that was a model for the notion of ‘imagined community’. Through these reflections, I seek to illuminate continuity and discontinuity with regard to media and culture change.

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“…Kabir's work tries to break the stereotype of the incompatibility between Islam and homosexuality and it would be good to remember Samar Habib's (2010: lvi) argument that 'the Muslim world is no more or less rational than the Western world.' Ferdi Thajib (2016) in their study of queer Indonesians explained that affective practices of ambivalence is a strategy that is often used by queer Muslims. Whilst many of his research participants discuss feeling disconnected from bodily participation due to their complex experiences of faith and religion, they recognize and practice Islam through multiple affective improvisations.…”

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Being out of place: Non-belonging and queer racialization in the U.K.

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Dasgupta

2018

Emotion, Space and Society

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The question of refugee rights and immigrant entry to the UK presently has come under attack with the rise of nationalist sentiment and the exit of the UK from the European Union. The figure of the Muslim migrant has been normatively constructed to represent a limit to UK's multiculturalism (and, arguably globally). Such anti-Mus-lim sentiment operates via displacing racialized bodies from UK public culture. This article situates the ways in which racialized queer Muslim subjects attempt to maneuver structural racism and heteronormativity in the UK. The article argues that queer Muslim immigrants perceive queer spaces in Central London as white spaces. Secondly , we will analyze how the racialized queer Muslim subject creates ethnoracial specific spaces that are located outside central London. We argue that queer migration needs to be understood as an embodied experience by paying attention to how racialized queer Muslim migrants moves through multiple spaces in the city. The article develops a mixed method approach through an analysis of Ian Iqbal Rashid's film A Touch of Pink (2004) alongside Raisa Kabir's recent exhibition In/Visible Space: Reflections on the Realm of Dimensional Affect, Space and the Queer Racialised Self (Rich Mix, April, 2013) and the narrative of a gay identified working class Muslim immigrant male from East London. We argue that queer Muslim migrants reside on the margins of British symbolic culture through a non-belonging to one's religious identity. Such non-belonging is a spatialized experience. An analysis of the film, exhibition and our ethnography reveals the ways in which sexuality is constructed and conferred through racialization and creates precariously situated queer Muslim migrant subjects within present day UK.

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Kaleidoscopic feelings: Faith narratives among Indonesian Muslim Queers

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process

Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process

Om toleran Om: four Indonesian reflections on digital heterosexism

Being out of place: Non-belonging and queer racialization in the U.K.

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