Predatory Voyeurs: Tourists and "Tribal Violence" in Remote Indonesia

Hoskins, Janet

doi:10.1525/ae.2002.29.4.797

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“…Indeed, whereas previously much could be seen to draw upon the shock of the exotic, many recent ethnographers seem to have to deal with the loss of the exotic (di Leonardo, 1998). Also, work on tourism and the consumption of the exotic is worth thinking about in these terms (Hoskins, 2002). 13.…”

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Multi‐context engaged learning and ethnographic fieldwork: some notes from the middle of the edge

Carlarne

2011

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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In this article, I describe multi-context engaged learning -a research methodology that I developed in response to the challenge of conducting intimate and engaged fieldwork within a highly complex and shifting milieu typical of those faced by many researchers today. Moreover, I argue that it is the ethnographer's 'presence' in terms of her accountability and membership within a shared context that should ideally constitute the site of research, and that this in turn demands an honest and forthright approach to the issues of exchange that are at the heart of most field research.

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Multi‐context engaged learning and ethnographic fieldwork: some notes from the middle of the edge

Carlarne

2011

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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“…Rumors and conspiracy theories can operate as critiques of larger power structures by people with little access to power (White ; Masquelier ; Comaroff and Comaroff ; Hoskins ; Kirsch ). Rumors are one means through which people react to collective experiences of inequality, exploitation, and political violence, and the circulation of rumors intensifies during times of extreme exploitation and suffering (White ; Masquelier ; Kirsch ; Butt ).…”

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Affective Atmospheres of Terror on the Mexico–U.S. Border: Rumors of Violence in Reynosa’s Prostitution Zone

Luna

2018

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article examines the effects of rumors within the Mexican and U.S. governments’ militarized war on drugs. Focusing on a period during which Mexican drug organizations were strengthened and violence increased, the article follows the lives of Mexican sex workers and their clients, as well as American missionaries living in a prostitution zone in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Borders between narco-controlled and state-controlled territory were shifted in and through the bodies of Reynosa’s residents as a contagion of performative rumors came to occupy la zona. As residents told or listened to stories about torture and murder at the hands of narcos, their perceived vulnerability increased and fear came to predominate. In this article I theorize how rumors of violence shaped affective atmospheres of terror and altered spatial practices in a drug-war zone. Feelings of bodily risk first affected vulnerable populations and later spread to people who had previously felt secure in border zones. These narco-stories not only circulated terror but also allowed people to achieve intimacy and maintain social bonds through the shared experience of terror.

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“…While these documented cases of the forced or tricked displacement of children are all too real, children also have a strong symbolic power in Indonesia, and they figure in rumors of abductions and disappearances of children elsewhere in the archipelago (see, e.g., Erb ; Hoskins ). Patricia Spyer () shows how in post‐Suharto Indonesia the figure of the child, on the loose and at risk, emerges in a climate of reformasi (the period after the fall of the dictatorial New Order regime) anxieties.…”

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Narratives of Uncertainty: The Affective Force of Child-Trafficking Rumors in Postdisaster Aceh, Indonesia

Samuels

2015

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

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In this article, I focus on the effects and affects of the child-trafficking rumors that have circulated after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia. The perpetual uncertainty about the truth of the rumors has inserted alternative, uncertain futures into parents' narratives of loss. I argue that to grasp such a condition of uncertainty ethnographically, we have to attend not only to what rumors reveal about a particular sociopolitical context but also to the ways in which they affect the lives of our interlocutors. Doing so allows us to inquire into both the conditions in which particular rumors acquire affective power and the emotional effects of the possible truth that they articulate. I further suggest that focusing on rumor's subjunctive mode, the uncertainty about what happened and how that could affect the future, attunes us to the uneasy space between knowledge and belief in which rumors operate. [rumor, narrative, affect, disaster, child trafficking, Indian Ocean tsunami, Indonesia] ABSTRAK Pada artikel ini, saya berfokus pada dampak emosional tentang rumor perdagangan anak yang beredar paska-tsunami Samudera Hindia yang melanda Aceh, Indonesia, tahun 2004 lalu. Ketidakpastian tentang kebenaran rumor tersebut telah memasukkan pandangan masa depan yang tidak pasti dalam narasi-narasi para orang tua yang kehilangan anak-anaknya. Saya berpendapat bahwa untuk memahami kondisi ketidakpastian secara etnografis, sebaiknya kita tidak hanya berfokus kepada bagaimana rumor tersebut dapat mengungkapkan konteks sosial-politik tertentu, tetapi juga kepada bagaimana isu tersebut mempengaruhi kehidupan mereka. Hal ini dapat membantu kita menyelidiki baik kondisi di mana beberapa rumor tertentu memperoleh daya emosi maupun efek emosional yang diakibatkan kemungkinan kebenaran yang mereka artikulasikan. Lebih jauh lagi, saya menyarankan bahwa fokus kepada modus subjungtif rumor, yaitu pada ketidakpastian tentang apa yang terjadi dan bagaimana hal itu dapat mempengaruhi masa depan, dapat membawa kita ke ruang gelisah antara pengetahuan dan keyakinan di mana rumor tersebut beredar. [rumor, narasi, emosi, bencana, perdagangan anak, tsunami Samudera Hindia, Indonesia] RESUMEN En este artículo, me enfoco en los efectos y afectos de los rumores sobre tráfico de niños que han circulado después del maremoto del Océano Indico en Aceh, Indonesia. La perpetua incertidumbre sobre la verdad de los rumores ha introducido futuros inciertos alternativos en las narrativas de pérdida de los padres. Argumento que para comprender tal condición de incertidumbre etnográficamente, tenemos que prestar atencion no solamente a lo que los rumores revelan sobre un contexto sociopolítico particular, sino también a las formas en que ellos afectan las vidas de nuestros interlocutores. El hacer esto nos permite investigar tanto las condiciones en las cuales rumores particulares adquieren poder afectivo como también los efectos emocionales de la posible verdad que ellos articulan.Además sugiero que centrándose en el modo subjuntivo del r...

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Predatory Voyeurs: Tourists and "Tribal Violence" in Remote Indonesia

Cited by 20 publications

References 27 publications

Multi‐context engaged learning and ethnographic fieldwork: some notes from the middle of the edge

Multi‐context engaged learning and ethnographic fieldwork: some notes from the middle of the edge

Affective Atmospheres of Terror on the Mexico–U.S. Border: Rumors of Violence in Reynosa’s Prostitution Zone

Narratives of Uncertainty: The Affective Force of Child-Trafficking Rumors in Postdisaster Aceh, Indonesia

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