Gender, Violence and Power in Indonesia

Katharine McGregor is an Associate Professor in Southeast Asian history based in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She has written mostly about memory, violence, history making and women's activism in Indonesia. Her recent books include The Indonesian Genocide of 1965: Causes, Dynamics and Legacies (2018), co-edited with Annie Pohlman and Jess Melvin. She is currently writing a book on transnational activism for Indonesian survivors of enforced military prostitution during the Japanese Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies as an outcome of her 2013-2018 ARC Future Fellowship.

This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to chart how various forms of violence - domestic, military, legal and political - are not separate instances of violence, but rather embedded in structural inequalities brought about by colonialism, occupation and state violence.

Introduction: Gendered Violence in the Making of Modern Indonesia, Katharine McGregor and Hannah Loney 1. Narrating Intimate Violence in Public Texts: Women's Writings in the West Sumatran Newspaper Soenting Melajoe, Bronwyn Anne Beech Jones 2. Living with the Enemy: Sexual Violence during the Japanese Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, Katharine McGregor 3. Home at the Front: Violence Against Indonesian Women and Children in Dutch Military Barracks during the Indonesian National Revolution, Susie Protschky 4. The Sexual and Visual Dynamics of Torture: Analysing Atrocity Photographs from Indonesian-Occupied East Timor, Hannah Loney and Annie Pohlman 5. Memory on Stage: Affect, Gender and the Performative in 1965-66 Survivor Testimonies, Wulan Digantoro and Barbara Hatley 6. Commemorating Gendered Violence Two Decades On: Chinese Indonesian Women's Voices in the Diaspora, Monika Winarnita and Ken Setiawan 7. Caring for the Un-Speakable: Coercive Pedagogies, Shame, and the Structural Violence Continuum in Indisch Intergenerational Memory Work, Ana Dragojlovic 8. The Politics of Care: A Case Study of Domestic Violence in Aceh, Balawyn Jones 9. Gendered Violence, Gendered Care: Nonintervention, Silence Work and the Politics of HIV in Aceh, Annemarie Samuels Afterword, Ana Dragojlovic