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Tag Archives: social science
Book Club: A Certain Age
I have been struggling with the strange kind of fieldwork I did in Aceh for the past few years and how to both acknowledge that strangeness and write about it. Rudolf Mrázek’s new book, A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta Through … Continue reading
Posted in Aceh, Anthropology, Book Club, Indonesia, Reflexive
Tagged A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta Through the Memories of Its Intellectuals, academia, Aceh, anthropology, Book Club, cognitive sparks, dustbin of history, ethnography, fieldwork, flaneur, fragments, humanitarianism, humanitarians, Indonesia, interviews, Jakarta, Marc Augé, mediation, memories, methods, misunderstanding, mobility, modernity, nationalism, non-place, non-places, progress, Rudolf Mrázek, Sartre, social science, supermodernity, supracolonialism, supramodernity, theory, touched away, transcripts, Walter Benjamin
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Book Club: Contemporary States of Emergency
A few months ago, while I was still in Indonesia, Zone Books published Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions, co-edited by anthropologists Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi. I’m pleased because this is my first peer … Continue reading
Posted in Aceh, Anthropology, Book Club, Conflict, Indonesia, Publications
Tagged academia, Aceh, anthropology, bearing witness, Book Club, Byron Good, contemporary states of emergency, Didier Fassin, donor time, ethnography, fieldwork, humanitarian intervention, humanitarianism, Indonesia, International Organization for Migration, intervention, IOM, Mariella Pandolfi, Mary-Jo Good, NGO, psychosocial, psychosocial needs assessment, Publications, research, social science, supracolonialism, the politics of military and humanitarian intervention, zone books
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Book Club: Women in Acehnese Society
Today I had the pleasure of attending a luncheon launch for a book in which I was indirectly involved. In my previous post, I wrote about the ARTI (Aceh Research Training Institute) scholars who attended a seminar in Yogyakarta. This … Continue reading
Posted in Aceh, Book Club, Indonesia
Tagged academia, Aceh, ARTI, book review, books, gender, IAIN Ar-Raniry, Logica, perempuan, perempuan dalam masyarakat aceh, po rumoh, Publications, reproductive health, research, social science, women
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Perceptions of Aceh in Yogyakarta
For the past three years, the Aceh Research Training Institute (ARTI), has trained young scholars from academia, government, and the non-profit sector in social science research methods. After two selective short courses, ARTI awards small 6-month research grants to the … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, Aceh, arabisasi, Arabisation, ARTI, GAM, ganja, Indonesia, Islamic law, Jakarta, Java, khalwat, misperceptions, Pascasarjana, perceptions, qanun, research, Snouck Hurgronje, social science, stereotypes, training, UGM, Yogyakarta
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