Reconstructing 'muslimness' : new bodies in urban Indonesia

Sonja van Wichelen; Cara Aitchison; Peter E. Hopkins; Mei-po Kwan

Reconstructing 'muslimness' : new bodies in urban Indonesia

Sonja van Wichelen
, Cara Aitchison
, Peter E. Hopkins
, Mei-po Kwan

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the production of Muslim bodies in post-Suharto Indonesia by reading mass-mediated but historically situated images of and debates on the veil and polygamy. Different socio-political periods in Indonesian history have allocated different meanings to the praxis of veiling and polygamy. I intend to relocate and refocus these debates in a time when the consumption of global information flows and the re-imagining of the nation-state give specific meaning to the politics of identity produced in these debates.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Geographies of Muslim Identities : Diaspora, Gender and Belonging
Place of Publication	U.K
Publisher	Ashgate
Pages	93-108
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9780754648888
Publication status	Published - 2007

Keywords

muslims
ethnicity
representation (philosophy)
Islamophobia
Indonesia

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