B Hegarty
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 49969 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | B Hegarty |
| NOMBRES | B |
| APELLIDO | Hegarty |
| FIRMA | HEGARTY B |
| AFILIACIONES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5240-1143 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Epistemic preparedness
Preparedness strategies for emergent infectious diseases have focused on microbial surveillance, medical stockpiling and healthcare infrastructure resilience. But what does it mean to be epistemically or cognitively prepared for the next disease outbreak? Taking stock of lessons for data practices and statistical modelling in the wake of COVID-19, we propose a reconceptualising of preparedness in global health, focusing on ecological and sociolog…
For the Health of All
Transgender health, and the scientific and medical knowledge underpinning it, has been transformed over the past two decades. Since the 2000s, coalitions of activists, doctors, and scientists have made important if fragile gains in an effort to depathologize trans people's encounters with medicine. However, both research and activism in the field has tended to center knowledge and controversies that take place in Euro-American societies. Three ne…
Troubling the canon
STS is now a global endeavour, with journals, scholars, and associations in a wide range of regions, languages, and transnational networks of knowledge. Building on recent debates about decolonizing research, we contribute to debates about epistemic injustice and asymmetries in the discipline by analysing a large sample of articles in 17 STS journals, published between 1976 and 2023. Our goal is to understand the multiplicity of factors that shap…
Gendered knowledge practices and human-animal-ecological health in Papua New Guinea
There have been consistent calls to incorporate gender frameworks into One Health research and policy. Men's and women's roles in relation to animals in many rural and agricultural communities may influence potential pathogen exposure and transmission patterns of zoonotic infectious diseases. However, men's and women's roles related to animals in rural societies are not static but change over time. This article draws on the results of qualitative…
Research, HIV/Aids, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia
The history of HIV/AIDS is often told from the Global North, a viewpoint that is naturalized in policies and programs that privilege biomedical models of treatment and prevention. This article explores how one Indonesian transgender population known as waria became the subject of various forms of research since the 1980s. Research was one way that waria came to be classified as part of the key population of "transgender people." Drawing on an ora…
Bureaucracy and Sex
Attention to the role of bureaucracy in classifying and governing sex in anthropology has been a topic of diverse interest. The historical role of anthropological theories of kinship and genealogy in establishing systems of classification highlights the lasting influence of racial and colonial legacies on binary sex. In the 1990s, interest in gender as performative resulted in a shift in focus from what sex is to what sex does. Ethnographic studi…
Stakeholder views on the relationship between human rights and the law in addressing the HIV epidemic in Papua New Guinea
Community activists, policymakers and researchers have long identified human rights as central to addressing the HIV epidemic. Over the past 10 years, efforts to incorporate human rights into the HIV response have focused on reforming laws which criminalise sex work and male-to-male sex. Laws criminalising sex work and male-to-male sex drive communities underground, making HIV prevention, testing, and treatment efforts more difficult. This articl…
A queer footnote
Anthropological accounts of sexual and gendered difference often serve the role of footnotes that buttress and even expand the reach of Euro-American concepts. In contrast to this contained role for anthropology, queer footnotes can push the discipline toward more capacious and experimental engagements with powerful knowledge. In 2020, governments around the world introduced lockdowns and border-control measures in response to the COVID-19 pandem…
The Made-Up State
In The Made-Up State , Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of Indonesia's trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the affective, material, and spatial experiences of belonging to a modern public sphere. Combining historical and ethnographic research, Hegarty traces the participation of warias in visual and bodily technologies, ranging from psychiatry and medical transsexuality to photography…
Sex, crime and entertainment
Images linking ‘LGBT’ to sexually motivated crime are a common feature of reporting in the Indonesian online news media. In particular, ‘gay sex parties’ are a spectacle shaped by the images produced by journalists in collaboration with the police. This combination of crime and entertainment plays a crucial role in managing both in what ways LGBT is seen and by extension what is defined as belonging to the public sphere. Media images of raids tak…
Identity Cards, Semiotic Instability, and Signs of State Recognition for Indonesian Warias
Following the authoritarian New Order in Indonesia (1965–1998) the state‐issued identity card was transformed into a symbol available for reproduction by ordinary citizens. One Indonesian transgender population known as warias used the card to engage with the terms of recognition offered by the state. In 2014, warias in Yogyakarta made organizational membership cards that closely mimicked but did not copy the visual form of the original. Warias e…
Chasing targets in a pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on HIV services globally, including community-based outreach programmes. This article draws on a qualitative study of HIV outreach workers for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Jakarta, Indonesia undertaken between July and September 2020. The research documented the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV outreach programmes for MSM based on interviews, focus group discussions and video diaries …
One Transgender Community's Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This essay contains an introduction and a translation of an account provided in Indonesian by Rully Mallay, a transgender community leader and activist at the Kebaya Foundation, a shelter for people living with HIV in the province of Yogyakarta. It describes the impact of restrictions imposed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and mobilization in response to it by those who identify as “waria” between February and September 2020. Waria played a piv…
Governing Nonconformity
The regulation of public space is generative of new approaches to gender nonconformity. In 1968 in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, a group of people who identified aswadam-a new term made by combining parts of Indonesian words denoting "femininity" and "masculinity"-made a claim to the city's governor that they had the right to appear in public space. This article illustrates the paradoxical achievement of obtaining recognition on terms consti…
The Biosocial Body
Peer outreach workers play a pivotal role in assisting HIV-positive people to access pharmaceutical treatment. In their role mediating between everyday sexual cultures and biomedical knowledge, outreach workers for men who have sex with men in Indonesia's capital city Jakarta emphasize the need to manage the visibility of the HIV-positive body as it appears to others. In order to enter clinical spaces, clients must adopt neat attire, strive to em…
When I was transgender
This think piece reflects on the ways in which the category 'transgender' is used by waria - Indonesia's 'national transvestite' (Boellstorff 2007) - based on ethnographic data collected from informants aged forty years or older in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. I was struck by how this group used the category 'transgender' with reference to a particular time in life that stretched from mid-teens to late twenties, a period marked by national and transna…
Queer generations
This article reflects on the concept of ‘queer generations’ as developed in the context of an ongoing study about belonging and sexual citizenship among two social generations of gender and sexual minority youth in Australia. We define the concepts ‘queer’ and ‘generations’ in the context of recent theoretical interest in temporality in childhood and youth studies in an attempt to think differently about gender and sexual difference. The main the…
The Perfect Woman
The decade between 1968 and 1978 was a period of remarkable activity in the state’s use of scientific knowledge about sex, gender, and sexuality to define individual bodies in Indonesia. This article, analyzes a particular locus for the deployment of expert knowledge about the body that emerged during this decade, the process through which Indonesian state experts incorporated, defined, and debated transnational knowledge about transgender femini…
The traffic in hierarchy
The Traffic in Hierarchy assembles a vivid array of ethnographic material to theorise why circumscribed forms of masculine authority serve as a locus for the lived experience of hierarchy. In order
Liminal Masculinity
In contemporary Indonesia, the fragmentation of a collectively-imagined future has generated ambivalent and contradictory ways of being and becoming a man. This article investigates this tension by drawing on interviews and ethnographic data collected from young men aged 18–30 who engage in transactional sex work in the capital city Jakarta. The narratives of these young men suggest that transactional sex is a choice linked to the cultivation of …
Under the Lights, Onto the Stage
Indonesia's waria commonly assert that the bodily transformations they undertake on a temporary but daily basis, which they call déndong, are central to their understanding of the self. The onerous efforts that waria make to craft their male body in line with frequently glamorous forms of feminine beauty nests within efforts to achieve visibility on the national stage. Waria also describe their gendered embodiment in terms of a personal narrative…
Intimate Navigations, Refracted Perspectives
In Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders, Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff have brought together a collection of original essays that include some of the finest contemporary scholarship from and about this part of the world. The Pacific,1 the editors note, remains an exemplary cultural laboratory for considering questions of sex, gender, and sexuality. Margaret Mead's (1928) research in Samoa, for example, was founda…
Heterosexuality and Race in the Australian Same-Sex Marriage Postal Survey
This article argues that race and class are central aspects of sexual citizenship in a Australia. It does so by investigating representations of heterosexuality that were produced and circulated during the 2017 same-sex marriage postal survey. Engaging with feminist and critical race theorists, we position same-sex marriage as not exceptional but part of a wider distribution of sexual citizenship within Australia's ongoing settler colonial histor…
The Value of Transgender
The globalization of transgender and its relationship to human rights has been accompanied by increased media interest in those so identified around the world. In Indonesia, this mostly involves the representation of male-to-female transgender-identified waria. While most mass media representations do portray them in narrow terms as the victims of violence, this does not undermine the value of transgender for waria. Seeing interaction with mass m…
Sex and sexualities in contemporary Indonesia
Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies’ volume continues a long heritage of research about gender and sexuality in Indonesia. Multidisciplinary and thematically disparate, the volume as a whole is an indispensable resource for those interested in the region and the field. The 15 chapters offer snapshots from many corners of the sprawling archipelago. The editors have collaborated closely with contributors keenly attentive to everyday life to …
Heterosexuality and Race in the Australian Same-Sex Marriage Postal Survey
This article argues that race and class are central aspects of sexual citizenship in a Australia. It does so by investigating representations of heterosexuality that were produced and circulated during the 2017 same-sex marriage postal survey. Engaging with feminist and critical race theorists, we position same-sex marriage as not exceptional but part of a wider distribution of sexual citizenship within Australia's ongoing settler colonial histor…
Under the Lights, Onto the Stage
Indonesia's waria commonly assert that the bodily transformations they undertake on a temporary but daily basis, which they call déndong, are central to their understanding of the self. The onerous efforts that waria make to craft their male body in line with frequently glamorous forms of feminine beauty nests within efforts to achieve visibility on the national stage. Waria also describe their gendered embodiment in terms of a personal narrative…
Queer generations
This article reflects on the concept of ‘queer generations’ as developed in the context of an ongoing study about belonging and sexual citizenship among two social generations of gender and sexual minority youth in Australia. We define the concepts ‘queer’ and ‘generations’ in the context of recent theoretical interest in temporality in childhood and youth studies in an attempt to think differently about gender and sexual difference. The main the…
The Value of Transgender
The globalization of transgender and its relationship to human rights has been accompanied by increased media interest in those so identified around the world. In Indonesia, this mostly involves the representation of male-to-female transgender-identified waria. While most mass media representations do portray them in narrow terms as the victims of violence, this does not undermine the value of transgender for waria. Seeing interaction with mass m…
Governing Nonconformity
The regulation of public space is generative of new approaches to gender nonconformity. In 1968 in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, a group of people who identified aswadam-a new term made by combining parts of Indonesian words denoting "femininity" and "masculinity"-made a claim to the city's governor that they had the right to appear in public space. This article illustrates the paradoxical achievement of obtaining recognition on terms consti…
The Perfect Woman
The decade between 1968 and 1978 was a period of remarkable activity in the state’s use of scientific knowledge about sex, gender, and sexuality to define individual bodies in Indonesia. This article, analyzes a particular locus for the deployment of expert knowledge about the body that emerged during this decade, the process through which Indonesian state experts incorporated, defined, and debated transnational knowledge about transgender femini…
When I was transgender
This think piece reflects on the ways in which the category 'transgender' is used by waria - Indonesia's 'national transvestite' (Boellstorff 2007) - based on ethnographic data collected from informants aged forty years or older in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. I was struck by how this group used the category 'transgender' with reference to a particular time in life that stretched from mid-teens to late twenties, a period marked by national and transna…
Identity Cards, Semiotic Instability, and Signs of State Recognition for Indonesian Warias
Following the authoritarian New Order in Indonesia (1965–1998) the state‐issued identity card was transformed into a symbol available for reproduction by ordinary citizens. One Indonesian transgender population known as warias used the card to engage with the terms of recognition offered by the state. In 2014, warias in Yogyakarta made organizational membership cards that closely mimicked but did not copy the visual form of the original. Warias e…
The Biosocial Body
Peer outreach workers play a pivotal role in assisting HIV-positive people to access pharmaceutical treatment. In their role mediating between everyday sexual cultures and biomedical knowledge, outreach workers for men who have sex with men in Indonesia's capital city Jakarta emphasize the need to manage the visibility of the HIV-positive body as it appears to others. In order to enter clinical spaces, clients must adopt neat attire, strive to em…
Liminal Masculinity
In contemporary Indonesia, the fragmentation of a collectively-imagined future has generated ambivalent and contradictory ways of being and becoming a man. This article investigates this tension by drawing on interviews and ethnographic data collected from young men aged 18–30 who engage in transactional sex work in the capital city Jakarta. The narratives of these young men suggest that transactional sex is a choice linked to the cultivation of …
One Transgender Community's Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This essay contains an introduction and a translation of an account provided in Indonesian by Rully Mallay, a transgender community leader and activist at the Kebaya Foundation, a shelter for people living with HIV in the province of Yogyakarta. It describes the impact of restrictions imposed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and mobilization in response to it by those who identify as “waria” between February and September 2020. Waria played a piv…
No Nation of Experts
Tattooing among young middle-class people in Indonesia has increased noticeably since the late 2000s. I draw on ethnographic research in tattoo studios alongside interviews and magazine sources to locate the style known as kustom within its social and cultural context. I describe how kustom tattooing is the product of patterns of consumption centred on the body, drawing resources from a globalised, mass media-saturated environment. Indeed, consum…
Zoonosis bacterianas de aparición reciente
This popular book, useful for schools of public health, medicine, and veterinary medicine, as well as public health and animal health institutions, offers the latest information on zoonoses and zoonotic diseases in Latin America and the rest of the world. Thanks to new technologies and advances in epidemiology, ecology, and other biological and social sciences, great progress has been made regarding these diseases since the first edition was publ…
Java Spirit
Benjamin HegartyAustralian National University© 2013, Benjamin Hegarty
The Value of Transgender
The globalization of transgender and its relationship to human rights has been accompanied by increased media interest in those so identified around the world. In Indonesia, this mostly involves the representation of male-to-female transgender-identified waria. While most mass media representations do portray them in narrow terms as the victims of violence, this does not undermine the value of transgender for waria. Seeing interaction with mass m…
Sex and sexualities in contemporary Indonesia
Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies’ volume continues a long heritage of research about gender and sexuality in Indonesia. Multidisciplinary and thematically disparate, the volume as a whole is an indispensable resource for those interested in the region and the field. The 15 chapters offer snapshots from many corners of the sprawling archipelago. The editors have collaborated closely with contributors keenly attentive to everyday life to …
No Nation of Experts
Tattooing among young middle-class people in Indonesia has increased noticeably since the late 2000s. I draw on ethnographic research in tattoo studios alongside interviews and magazine sources to locate the style known as kustom within its social and cultural context. I describe how kustom tattooing is the product of patterns of consumption centred on the body, drawing resources from a globalised, mass media-saturated environment. Indeed, consum…
Under the Lights, Onto the Stage
Indonesia's waria commonly assert that the bodily transformations they undertake on a temporary but daily basis, which they call déndong, are central to their understanding of the self. The onerous efforts that waria make to craft their male body in line with frequently glamorous forms of feminine beauty nests within efforts to achieve visibility on the national stage. Waria also describe their gendered embodiment in terms of a personal narrative…
Intimate Navigations, Refracted Perspectives
In Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders, Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff have brought together a collection of original essays that include some of the finest contemporary scholarship from and about this part of the world. The Pacific,1 the editors note, remains an exemplary cultural laboratory for considering questions of sex, gender, and sexuality. Margaret Mead's (1928) research in Samoa, for example, was founda…
Heterosexuality and Race in the Australian Same-Sex Marriage Postal Survey
This article argues that race and class are central aspects of sexual citizenship in a Australia. It does so by investigating representations of heterosexuality that were produced and circulated during the 2017 same-sex marriage postal survey. Engaging with feminist and critical race theorists, we position same-sex marriage as not exceptional but part of a wider distribution of sexual citizenship within Australia's ongoing settler colonial histor…
Queer generations
This article reflects on the concept of ‘queer generations’ as developed in the context of an ongoing study about belonging and sexual citizenship among two social generations of gender and sexual minority youth in Australia. We define the concepts ‘queer’ and ‘generations’ in the context of recent theoretical interest in temporality in childhood and youth studies in an attempt to think differently about gender and sexual difference. The main the…
The Perfect Woman
The decade between 1968 and 1978 was a period of remarkable activity in the state’s use of scientific knowledge about sex, gender, and sexuality to define individual bodies in Indonesia. This article, analyzes a particular locus for the deployment of expert knowledge about the body that emerged during this decade, the process through which Indonesian state experts incorporated, defined, and debated transnational knowledge about transgender femini…
The traffic in hierarchy
The Traffic in Hierarchy assembles a vivid array of ethnographic material to theorise why circumscribed forms of masculine authority serve as a locus for the lived experience of hierarchy. In order
Liminal Masculinity
In contemporary Indonesia, the fragmentation of a collectively-imagined future has generated ambivalent and contradictory ways of being and becoming a man. This article investigates this tension by drawing on interviews and ethnographic data collected from young men aged 18–30 who engage in transactional sex work in the capital city Jakarta. The narratives of these young men suggest that transactional sex is a choice linked to the cultivation of …
When I was transgender
This think piece reflects on the ways in which the category 'transgender' is used by waria - Indonesia's 'national transvestite' (Boellstorff 2007) - based on ethnographic data collected from informants aged forty years or older in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. I was struck by how this group used the category 'transgender' with reference to a particular time in life that stretched from mid-teens to late twenties, a period marked by national and transna…
Chasing targets in a pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on HIV services globally, including community-based outreach programmes. This article draws on a qualitative study of HIV outreach workers for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Jakarta, Indonesia undertaken between July and September 2020. The research documented the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV outreach programmes for MSM based on interviews, focus group discussions and video diaries …
One Transgender Community's Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This essay contains an introduction and a translation of an account provided in Indonesian by Rully Mallay, a transgender community leader and activist at the Kebaya Foundation, a shelter for people living with HIV in the province of Yogyakarta. It describes the impact of restrictions imposed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and mobilization in response to it by those who identify as “waria” between February and September 2020. Waria played a piv…
Governing Nonconformity
The regulation of public space is generative of new approaches to gender nonconformity. In 1968 in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, a group of people who identified aswadam-a new term made by combining parts of Indonesian words denoting "femininity" and "masculinity"-made a claim to the city's governor that they had the right to appear in public space. This article illustrates the paradoxical achievement of obtaining recognition on terms consti…
The Biosocial Body
Peer outreach workers play a pivotal role in assisting HIV-positive people to access pharmaceutical treatment. In their role mediating between everyday sexual cultures and biomedical knowledge, outreach workers for men who have sex with men in Indonesia's capital city Jakarta emphasize the need to manage the visibility of the HIV-positive body as it appears to others. In order to enter clinical spaces, clients must adopt neat attire, strive to em…
The Made-Up State
In The Made-Up State , Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of Indonesia's trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the affective, material, and spatial experiences of belonging to a modern public sphere. Combining historical and ethnographic research, Hegarty traces the participation of warias in visual and bodily technologies, ranging from psychiatry and medical transsexuality to photography…
Sex, crime and entertainment
Images linking ‘LGBT’ to sexually motivated crime are a common feature of reporting in the Indonesian online news media. In particular, ‘gay sex parties’ are a spectacle shaped by the images produced by journalists in collaboration with the police. This combination of crime and entertainment plays a crucial role in managing both in what ways LGBT is seen and by extension what is defined as belonging to the public sphere. Media images of raids tak…
Identity Cards, Semiotic Instability, and Signs of State Recognition for Indonesian Warias
Following the authoritarian New Order in Indonesia (1965–1998) the state‐issued identity card was transformed into a symbol available for reproduction by ordinary citizens. One Indonesian transgender population known as warias used the card to engage with the terms of recognition offered by the state. In 2014, warias in Yogyakarta made organizational membership cards that closely mimicked but did not copy the visual form of the original. Warias e…
Bureaucracy and Sex
Attention to the role of bureaucracy in classifying and governing sex in anthropology has been a topic of diverse interest. The historical role of anthropological theories of kinship and genealogy in establishing systems of classification highlights the lasting influence of racial and colonial legacies on binary sex. In the 1990s, interest in gender as performative resulted in a shift in focus from what sex is to what sex does. Ethnographic studi…
Stakeholder views on the relationship between human rights and the law in addressing the HIV epidemic in Papua New Guinea
Community activists, policymakers and researchers have long identified human rights as central to addressing the HIV epidemic. Over the past 10 years, efforts to incorporate human rights into the HIV response have focused on reforming laws which criminalise sex work and male-to-male sex. Laws criminalising sex work and male-to-male sex drive communities underground, making HIV prevention, testing, and treatment efforts more difficult. This articl…
A queer footnote
Anthropological accounts of sexual and gendered difference often serve the role of footnotes that buttress and even expand the reach of Euro-American concepts. In contrast to this contained role for anthropology, queer footnotes can push the discipline toward more capacious and experimental engagements with powerful knowledge. In 2020, governments around the world introduced lockdowns and border-control measures in response to the COVID-19 pandem…
Epistemic preparedness
Preparedness strategies for emergent infectious diseases have focused on microbial surveillance, medical stockpiling and healthcare infrastructure resilience. But what does it mean to be epistemically or cognitively prepared for the next disease outbreak? Taking stock of lessons for data practices and statistical modelling in the wake of COVID-19, we propose a reconceptualising of preparedness in global health, focusing on ecological and sociolog…
For the Health of All
Transgender health, and the scientific and medical knowledge underpinning it, has been transformed over the past two decades. Since the 2000s, coalitions of activists, doctors, and scientists have made important if fragile gains in an effort to depathologize trans people's encounters with medicine. However, both research and activism in the field has tended to center knowledge and controversies that take place in Euro-American societies. Three ne…
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