[Linganth] CFP AAA 2015 Idioms of desire, intention, and responsibility in Post-Suharto Indonesia

[Aurora Donzelli]

We are looking for one more panelist for the panel below.
 If you are interested in participating in the panel, please send a title and an abstract to adonzelli at slc.edu<mailto:adonzelli at slc.edu>  no later than Sunday *April 5th.*
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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS, AAA 2015
Call for Papers: Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association 2015
Location: Denver, Colorado, November 18-22.
Panel Title: Idioms of desire, intention, and responsibility in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Organizers: Aurora Donzelli



Idioms of desire, intention, and responsibility in Post-Suharto Indonesia


Following the collapse of President Suharto’s authoritarian regime in 1998 and the implementation of a number of IMF-led institutional reforms, people in Indonesia have been confronted with a neoliberal script of moral voluntarism and entrepreneurship, a new rhetoric of democratic aspirations and future possibilities, a new world of actual goods and imaginable consumptions, and a new social legitimacy of personal desires. What are the implications of these large-scale institutional processes for the linguistic, affective, and moral experience of individuals, living in the Indonesian centers and peripheries?
Post-socialist contexts have provided intriguing case studies for the examination of the moral transformations triggered by structural shifts (see, for example, Collier 2011 Kleinman et al. 2011; Matza 2009; Rofel 2007; Yurchak 2000, 2003, 2013; Zigon 2010). In spite of its magnitude, Indonesia’s recent transition from a highly centralized form of state-led development to a decentralized system based on market capitalism and managed through neoliberal policies (see Robison and Hadiz 2005; Peluso et al. 2008) still requires an extensive ethnographic examination of the current neoliberal re-articulations of language, moral experience, and political economy (but see Rudnyckyj 2004, 2009, 2011).
This panel investigates how the neoliberal “trope of individual responsibility” (Jessop 2013: 66), the new moral script of individual entrepreneurialism, and the new rhetoric of personal desires and democratic aspirations are resulting in the formation of new subjectivities and structures of feelings (Williams 1977) in contemporary post-Suharto Indonesia. It encompasses contributions from linguistic and cultural anthropologists interested in understanding of the intersection between language, moral experience, and political economy underlying the cultural frictions (Tsing 2005) of the global processes of late capitalism.


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