Kathryn Robinson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3597250 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kathryn Robinson |
| NOMBRES | Kathryn |
| APELLIDO | Robinson |
| FIRMA | ROBINSON K |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Feminist Cyberlaw
This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism
A Mining Theme Park-Cultural Competition and the Politics of Identity Claims in an Indonesian Mining Town
The Wallacea-Sawerigading Mining Park (Taman Tambang Wallacea Sawerigading) in the mining town of Sorowako in Sulawesi, Indonesia, has been created by the mining company whose operations dominate the landscape and the local economy. The theme park juxtaposes the distinctive flora and fauna, and the pre-colonial history of the region, with the modern mining operations, creating a thematic stamp for regional identity. This article discusses the par…
Pesantren Al-Fattah
This study seeks to describe the struggle of a Muslim transgender ascetic in claiming religious space for transgender in urban Indonesia by creating a pesantren (Islamic school). The study was conducted in Al-Fattah Pondok Pesantren, the only Islamic school for transgender in Indonesia. Al-Fattah is created by Bu Maryani, a transgender ascetic, who contributed her money, thought, energy and prayers for this school, to provide spiritual sanctuary …
Land reform rationalities and their governance effects in Indonesia
Exploring a social geology approach in eastern Indonesia
Can Formalisation of Adat Land Regulation Protect Community Rights? The Case of the Orang Asli Sorowako and the Karongsi'e/Dongi
Formalisation of customary rights in land is currently being pursued by an increasing number of Indonesian rural communities, who wish to protect their livelihoods and prevent dispossession in favour of commercial concessions. This trend has accelerated during the current presidency (Joko Widodo). This is a dramatic shift from the denial of recognition of customary rights during Soeharto’s New Order. This article reports on the ongoing efforts by…
Changing Indigeneity Politics in Indonesia
Through the discourse of indigeneity, rural communities around the world are joining a global network of rural justice seekers. By articulating grievances collectively, they demand state recognition while seeking support from NGOs and international development organisations. In Indonesia, the manifestation of indigenous ‘adat’ politics is no longer confined to the national struggle for the recognition of land rights, but instead, has proliferated…
Sex and Gender Roles, Division of Labor in
The sexual division of labor refers to the differentiation of tasks and their allocation between men and women, which are reproduced as normative social arrangements. It can refer to the tasks themselves, the organization of those tasks, and the distribution of the products of work. Feminist analysis notes a critical connection between the sexual division of labor and the position of women in any given society. Some kind of sex‐based differentiat…
Gender, M arxist Theories of
Marxist theories of gender are fundamentally concerned with analyzing the relation between class exploitation and gender inequality. Women's oppression is regarded as the product of the economic, political, and social structures of capitalism. Marxist approaches were taken up by some feminist anthropologists in the 1970s, in particular taking inspiration from Friedrich Engels's The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884), see…
Sex and Gender Roles, Critiques of
The term “sex roles” refers to the social functions that are ascribed to individuals based on their sex. Role theory was initially the dominant paradigm to explain sexual inequality in second‐wave feminism; and its feminist scholarship was role theory. Role theory focused on practices of socialization into male and female roles, for example, different expectations and behaviors toward male and female infants
Enacting the Corporation
What can the ethnographic approaches of anthropology reveal about corporate culture and its interactions with localised sites? How can anthropological approaches critically evaluate the practices o
Obituary
Our beloved and respected colleague, Gill Bottomley, died on 29 August 2016 in Port Macquarie. Her intellectual legacy is enormous. She was one of the pioneers of anthropological studies of migrati
From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time
Land and Development in Indonesia
Indonesia was founded on the ideal of the “Sovereignty of the People”, which suggests the pre-eminence of people’s rights to access, use and control land to support their livelihoods. Yet, many questions remain unresolved. How can the state ensure access to land for agriculture and housing while also supporting land acquisition for investment in industry and infrastructure? What is to be done about indigenous rights? Do registration and titling p…
Youth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia
Youth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia addresses current struggles and opportunities facing Indonesia's youth across the archipelago. Contributions to this volume delve into youth aspirations and their everyday lives - education; friendship; work; leisure; sexuality; religion - described through the lens of the young people themselves
Communal Peace and Conflict in Indonesia
At the time of the outbreaks of communal violence that erupted around the close of the New Order era (in 1998), there were many predictions that Indonesia would explode apart as a consequence of et
Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia
This chapter explores the larger history of sexuality and gender in Indonesia since the first appearance of lesbi in the national news in 1981, through the work of Saskia Wieringa, who studied a working class butch/femme community in Jakarta. These studies include Sharyn Graham Davie's powerful analysis of calalai in South Sulawesi, based on research conducted primarily in 1999 and 2000; this chapter works on tomboi in West Sumatra, conducted in …
Ketegangan Antarsukubangsa, Orang Bugis, dan Masalah ‘Penjelasan’
Outbreaks of violence in eastern Indonesia in 1998 were characterized by attacks on migrants from Sulawesi. Anti-Bugis prejudice has a long history in the archipelago, but historically it has been expressed in differing ways. What explanations have been put forward for political/ethnic violence in Indonesia? By comparing the discussion of last year's conflict with that after the post-coup killings, for example, the author raises the question of '…
Sawerigading vs. Sharia
Indonesian youth looking towards the future
Selected survey data on future aspirations and expectations from 3565 young Indonesians are presented in this study. Muslim-majority Indonesia is an Asian economic success story. The economy has seen solid growth, leading to an expansion of the private sector. The upward credentialling of the labour market and the rapid growth of the middle class have resulted. Accordingly, the transition to adulthood for working-class and lower middle-class yout…
Stepchildren in Their Own Land
The people of a rural village in Indonesia have been incorporated into a modern town which grew up as a consequence of the establishment of a foreign owned nickel mining and processing facility. The paper examines the assertion of ethnic identity by the indigenous population of the village in the context of the changes in their social and economic milieu. Soroakan identity is examined as a response to the oppression arising on the basis of capita…
Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia
This book explores the relationship between gender, religion and political action in Indonesia, examining the patterns of gender orders that have prevailed in recent history, and demonstrating the different forms of social power this has afforded to women. It sets out the part played by women in the nationalist movement, and the role of the women’s movement in the structuring of the independent Indonesian state, the politics of the immediate post…
Period Problems' at the Coalface
Menstruation leave for women workers brings into the public domain of mining ongoing debates around protective legislation for women. It brings into focus the presumed tensions between gender equity and gender difference with regard to women's economic citizenship. Large-scale mining in East Kalimantan in Indonesia has offered some opportunities to poor and unskilled rural women to find formal jobs in the mines as truck and heavy equipment operat…
Connecting the Miles
[Extract] The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA) is proud to celebrate the career of Douglas Miles, who pioneered Anthropological studies of Southeast Asia in Australia, through major fieldwork among the Ngadju Dayaks of Borneo (1959-60, 1961-63) and the Yao of Northern Thailand and Laos (1966-69, 1970, 1996-97)
The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture in the Anthropology of Douglas Miles
During the Vietnam War, the US government funded anthropological research in South Vietnam that was charged by critics as supporting counterinsurgency measures. My 1973 BA Hons thesis addressed theoretical debates about the nature of political power in post-colonial peasant societies using ethnographic reports of the research group at Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group. In recent years, anthropology has returned to ethical debates i…
Marriage Migration, Gender Transformations, and Family Values in the ‘Global Ecumene’
The metaphor of the market is a poor explanatory tool for the growth in international web-brokered marriages, between (mainly) men from rich countries and women from poor countries. States play an important role in regulating particular forms of migration including creating the ‘need’ for spousal migrants, as well as permitting their entry. The characterisation of the men who seek spouses through international agencies as powerful agents in the w…
Changing Indigeneity Politics in Indonesia
Through the discourse of indigeneity, rural communities around the world are joining a global network of rural justice seekers. By articulating grievances collectively, they demand state recognition while seeking support from NGOs and international development organisations. In Indonesia, the manifestation of indigenous ‘adat’ politics is no longer confined to the national struggle for the recognition of land rights, but instead, has proliferated…
Of Mail-Order Brides and 'Boys' Own' Tales
Asia is increasingly entering into the Australian imaginary as the nation grapples with the issue of 'Australian identity'. This article examines two instances in which the idea of Asia has been taken up in debates about marriage and relations between men and women. Asia is a site of fantasy for men in an era when they feel that 'traditional' values of male pre-eminence in the family are being undermined. In this fantasy, 'Asia' is known through …
Indonesian youth looking towards the future
Selected survey data on future aspirations and expectations from 3565 young Indonesians are presented in this study. Muslim-majority Indonesia is an Asian economic success story. The economy has seen solid growth, leading to an expansion of the private sector. The upward credentialling of the labour market and the rapid growth of the middle class have resulted. Accordingly, the transition to adulthood for working-class and lower middle-class yout…
Of Mail-Order Brides and "Boys' Own" Tales
Kathryn Robinson, Of Mail-Order Brides and "Boys' Own" Tales: Representations of Asian-Australian Marriages, Feminist Review, No. 52, The World Upside Down: Feminisms in the Antipodes (Spring, 1996), pp. 53-68
Sawerigading vs. Sharia
Chandra Jayawardena and the Ethical 'Turn' in Australian Anthropology
The Sri Lankan-born anthropologist, the late Chandra Jayawardena, was a pivotal figure in the development of Australian anthropology. He arrived at the University of Sydney in the late 1960s, a period of dramatic intellectual and political change. In the 1970s, he was at the centre of the ethical debate about the involvement of anthropologists in the Tribal Research Centre, a dispute which pitted him against W.R. Geddes. The article draws on his …
Turning Public Issues Into Private Troubles
Residents living in the vicinity of lead smelters are subjected to particularly high levels of contamination from the toxic process of smelting. Yet, public health strategies currently promoted by state health authorities in Australia do not focus their major attention on stopping the contamination at its source. This article focuses on housecleaning regimes, largely implemented by women, aimed at stopping the toxic material from being ingested b…
Filipino Brides
Although Watkins' paper aims to question the stereotype of the servility of Filipino women, the material presented tends to support the stereotype. The argument suffers from the inadequacy of previous studies of the ‘status’ of Filipino women and the lack of information on the motivation and situation of Filipino ‘mail order brides’ in Australia. The paper also indicates profound cultural differences between Filipinos and Australians which could …
Can Formalisation of Adat Land Regulation Protect Community Rights? The Case of the Orang Asli Sorowako and the Karongsi'e/Dongi
Formalisation of customary rights in land is currently being pursued by an increasing number of Indonesian rural communities, who wish to protect their livelihoods and prevent dispossession in favour of commercial concessions. This trend has accelerated during the current presidency (Joko Widodo). This is a dramatic shift from the denial of recognition of customary rights during Soeharto’s New Order. This article reports on the ongoing efforts by…
Challenges for the social sciences and Australia
(1999). Challenges for the social sciences and Australia: Anthropology. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 63-74
Land reform rationalities and their governance effects in Indonesia
Exploring a social geology approach in eastern Indonesia
Period Problems' at the Coalface
Menstruation leave for women workers brings into the public domain of mining ongoing debates around protective legislation for women. It brings into focus the presumed tensions between gender equity and gender difference with regard to women's economic citizenship. Large-scale mining in East Kalimantan in Indonesia has offered some opportunities to poor and unskilled rural women to find formal jobs in the mines as truck and heavy equipment operat…
Connecting the Miles
[Extract] The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA) is proud to celebrate the career of Douglas Miles, who pioneered Anthropological studies of Southeast Asia in Australia, through major fieldwork among the Ngadju Dayaks of Borneo (1959-60, 1961-63) and the Yao of Northern Thailand and Laos (1966-69, 1970, 1996-97)
East Indies/West Indies
A series of debates in anthropology and other disciplines since the 1980s has raised questions of area studies, comparison, and ‘the field’ in relation to the production of ethnographic knowledge. In search of a concrete framework within which to extend these debates, participants in this special issue of Anthropological Forum bring together research on Southeast Asia and the Caribbean: the ‘East Indies’ and the ‘West Indies’. This introductory p…
Reflections on Parenting a Child with ADHD
The author takes her own personal experiences as her field of research, weaving stories and theories to explore professionalclient relationships and meanings. The work reflects on her multiple identities and positions as a professional social worker, client, and mother of a child with ADHD and learning difficulties. It explores the meanings and dilemmas of the diagnostic process, resistance, surveillance, care, and control in relationships betwee…
Indonesia Update 2001 Gender Equity and Development in Indonesia
Peer-reviewed
Orphans of Nature
Filipino Brides
Although Watkins' paper aims to question the stereotype of the servility of Filipino women, the material presented tends to support the stereotype. The argument suffers from the inadequacy of previous studies of the ‘status’ of Filipino women and the lack of information on the motivation and situation of Filipino ‘mail order brides’ in Australia. The paper also indicates profound cultural differences between Filipinos and Australians which could …
Stepchildren of Progress
Stepchildren of Progress
Of Mail-Order Brides and "Boys' Own" Tales
Kathryn Robinson, Of Mail-Order Brides and "Boys' Own" Tales: Representations of Asian-Australian Marriages, Feminist Review, No. 52, The World Upside Down: Feminisms in the Antipodes (Spring, 1996), pp. 53-68
Of Mail-Order Brides and 'Boys' Own' Tales
Asia is increasingly entering into the Australian imaginary as the nation grapples with the issue of 'Australian identity'. This article examines two instances in which the idea of Asia has been taken up in debates about marriage and relations between men and women. Asia is a site of fantasy for men in an era when they feel that 'traditional' values of male pre-eminence in the family are being undermined. In this fantasy, 'Asia' is known through …
History, Houses and Regional Identities
The Indonesian government authorises particular modes of representations of the diverse cultural traditions of the archipelago which are subservient to the display of a national culture in the pursuit of national unity. The ‘Taman Mini Indonesia Indah’ theme park in Jakarta manifests the authorised version of difference, as do regional museums. In the province of South Sulawesi, under the guiding influence of local scholars, the provincial govern…
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
History, Houses and Regional Identities
The Indonesian government authorises particular modes of representations of the diverse cultural traditions of the archipelago which are subservient to the display of a national culture in the pursuit of national unity. The ‘Taman Mini Indonesia Indah’ theme park in Jakarta manifests the authorised version of difference, as do regional museums. In the province of South Sulawesi, under the guiding influence of local scholars, the provincial govern…
Fictions Of Our Tribe
A partir d'une etude de divers textes contemporains d'anthropologie reflexive sur les conditions de la recherche et l'identite professionnelle et sexuelle des ethnologues, l'A. s'est interrogee sur les valeurs et les comportements au sein de la tribu des ethnologues, sur la dimension ethique de l'ecriture, enfin sur les implications complexes des relations entre ethnologues et autres interlocuteurs (chercheurs, interlocuteurs des enquetes ethnogr…
Challenges for the social sciences and Australia
(1999). Challenges for the social sciences and Australia: Anthropology. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 63-74
International labour migration of Asian women
Chris Beyrer. War in the Blood: sex, Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia. Bangkok: White Lotus Books; London and New York: Zed Books, 1998. £42.50, hardcover; £14.95, paper. Christine B. N. Chin. In Service and Servitude: foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian “Modernity” Project. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xxiv, 299 pp. US$20.50, paper. Siriporn Skrobanek, Nataya Boonpakdee and Chutima Jantateero. The Traffic in Women:…
Orphans of Nature
Economy as a cultural system
L'A. retrace la carriere de l'anthropologue Paul Alexander (ne en Nouvelle-Zelande, il travaille et enseigne depuis plus de trente ans en Australie) et sa contribution theorique dans le champ de l'anthropologie economique. Centre sur les economies locales du Sri Lanka, de Java et de Borneo, la contribution de P. Alexander a l'anthropologie economique se caracterise par une attitude non-restrictive a une ecole de pensee particuliere, par son atten…
From Motherhood to Citizenship
It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that many countries began granting women the right to participate in public institutions as individuals. Until then, women were incorporated into various domains of life mainly through their relational roles as mothers. In From Motherhood to Citizenship, Nitza Berkovitch argues that this trend is not confined to specific countries, but represents a worldwide phenomenon. Moreover, the force…
Indonesia Update 2001 Gender Equity and Development in Indonesia
Peer-reviewed
Turning Public Issues Into Private Troubles
Residents living in the vicinity of lead smelters are subjected to particularly high levels of contamination from the toxic process of smelting. Yet, public health strategies currently promoted by state health authorities in Australia do not focus their major attention on stopping the contamination at its source. This article focuses on housecleaning regimes, largely implemented by women, aimed at stopping the toxic material from being ingested b…
Women in Indonesia
Indonesia now has its first woman President -- Megawati Sukarnoputri. The debates surrounding her elevation to the presidency brought issues of gender and politics to the forefront of the public agenda, raising crucial questions about the role that women are to play in public life in post-Soeharo Indonesia. The struggle to achieve a democratic transition following the fall of Soeharto's New Order in 1998 has also focused attention on issues of eq…
Women in Indonesia
Indonesia now has its first woman President -- Megawati Sukarnoputri. The debates surrounding her elevation to the presidency brought issues of gender and politics to the forefront of the public agenda, raising crucial questions about the role that women are to play in public life in post-Soeharo Indonesia. The struggle to achieve a democratic transition following the fall of Soeharto's New Order in 1998 has also focused attention on issues of eq…
Editor's foreword
Reflections on Parenting a Child with ADHD
The author takes her own personal experiences as her field of research, weaving stories and theories to explore professionalclient relationships and meanings. The work reflects on her multiple identities and positions as a professional social worker, client, and mother of a child with ADHD and learning difficulties. It explores the meanings and dilemmas of the diagnostic process, resistance, surveillance, care, and control in relationships betwee…
Chandra Jayawardena and the Ethical 'Turn' in Australian Anthropology
The Sri Lankan-born anthropologist, the late Chandra Jayawardena, was a pivotal figure in the development of Australian anthropology. He arrived at the University of Sydney in the late 1960s, a period of dramatic intellectual and political change. In the 1970s, he was at the centre of the ethical debate about the involvement of anthropologists in the Tribal Research Centre, a dispute which pitted him against W.R. Geddes. The article draws on his …
Islamic Influences on Indonesian Feminism
In imagining Indonesia’s future, its character as a country with the world’s largest Islamic population emerges as a critical issue. In the post-Suharto period, some commentators have seen the emergence of Islamist politics as a threat to newly attained freedoms. No sooner had women been freed from the constraints of ‘state ibuism’, i.e., the official policy promoting the role of wife and mother (ibu) of the New Order (see Suryakusuma 1996), whic…
Idioms of Vernacular Humanism
The Sri Lankan‐born anthropologist, Chandra Jayawardena, is a post‐colonial scholar whose work helped shape the direction of Australian anthropology. His passionate concern for social justice is reflected in his scholarly interest in the question of inequality. His initial field research was in the plantations of (then) British Guyana, and his work stands as a landmark in studies of the West Indies, in that it did not fall back on racial and cult…
East Indies/West Indies
A series of debates in anthropology and other disciplines since the 1980s has raised questions of area studies, comparison, and ‘the field’ in relation to the production of ethnographic knowledge. In search of a concrete framework within which to extend these debates, participants in this special issue of Anthropological Forum bring together research on Southeast Asia and the Caribbean: the ‘East Indies’ and the ‘West Indies’. This introductory p…
Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans
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