Carla Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4686-8289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Style on Trial
In the two decades since the end of Suharto regime in Indonesia, two apparently distinct public industries have emerged in tandem: gendered forms of religious style, glossed as modest fashion, and legal efforts to hold citizens accountable for theft, glossed as corruption. Many of the most high-profile anti-corruption cases in the past decade have brought these two fields into semiotic interaction, as female defendants increasingly deploy forms o…
Mualaf Chic
Scholars of the visible rise of public forms of Islamic piety movements in Indonesia in the past two decades have noted its transnational character. Unsurprisingly, Arab inspiration has been prominent, as direct clerical influence and indirect aesthetic prestige. In this article, I suggest that another feature of this shared religious community relays a slightly different allure, that of accessing and domesticating foreignness through conversion …
Feminist Anthropology for Our Times
Piety
Anthropological analyses of piety treat it as the principle and practice of devotion. Anthropological research takes seriously the wide diversity of pious practices around the world. Rather than assume that piety refers only to Christian practice, research underscores the complex ethical assumptions that link piety to the religious and to the political and economic. Research on piety connects forms of self‐improvement and ethical practice to soci…
AFA's Live Annual Review 2017
Feminist Anthropology in an Urgent Moment
The Global Middle Classes
Surging middle-class aspirations and anxieties throughout world have recently compelled anthropologists to pay serious attention to middle and middle-class spaces, sentiments, lifestyles, labours, and civic engagements. Middle classness has become a powerful category for self-identification, as political and corporate leaders increasingly hail the middle classes as ideal subject-citizenry. Ethnographically rich and culturally particular, essays i…
Gender Diversity in Indonesia
Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves." Asian Studies Review, 36(4), pp. 585–586
Gender Matters
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCarla JonesAuthor Details:Dr Carla Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 233, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Transnational conceptions of Islamic community
Mediating Piety
Mediating Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia, edited by Francis Khek Gee Lim, Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2009, xii + 240pp. ISBN 978 90 04 17839 7, US$117 (hbk) As the global media
Spiritual Economies
Images of Desire
The recent and highly visible rise of Islamic consumer culture in contemporary urban Indonesia is a source of both pleasure and anxiety for many Indonesians, figuring in debates about the appeal of a new piety there in the past decade. At the center of these debates is the image of the piously dressed woman. Simultaneously a consumer and a sign of piety, modest yet attractive, she seems to blur assumptions about the boundaries between image and s…
Better Women
Through analysis of an increasingly popular phenomenon of courses training feminine comportment in Indonesia, I argue in this article that the appeal and work of femininity can be analyzed as a form of what Timothy Mitchell has called the "rule of experts." Building on Mitchell, I suggest that expertise is central to authoritarian projects and postauthoritarian aftermath and is especially evident in zones that masquerade as least public and yet m…
Materializing piety
Islamic consumption promises to correct the ills of consumption yet relies on the logic of consumption for its appeal. Fashionably pious women in Indonesia have become figures of concern, suspected of being more invested in the material, and hence superficial, world than their virtuous appearances suggest. Arguing that consumption and religion are interdependent systems of faith, I show that women bear unusual semiotic burdens at the borders of m…
Proper Islamic Consumption
Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives
Fashion and Faith in Urban Indonesia
In the past fifteen years, urban Indonesian women have increasingly chosen to adopt a form of Islamic dress called busana Muslim. This shift could be read as an index of two apparently contradictory or mutually exclusive phenomena, a rise in Islamic piety and a rise in consumerism. This article suggests that rather than reducing the popularity of Islamic fashion in contemporary Indonesia to either religion or consumerism, the rise of Islamic fash…
Whose stress? Emotion work in middle-class Javanese homes
By attending to ways in which middle-class wives in Yogyakarta, Java, describe negotiating sentiments among family members (including children, maids and husbands), this article argues that domestic relations in middle-class homes in Java have been importantly inflected by state rhetoric on gender propriety and market ideas of work. As a result, both middle-class women and maids have come to conceive of emotion work as part of an array of domesti…
What Happens When Asian Chic Becomes Chic in Asia
QEA RWMH. The Worship of the Goddess Roma in the Greek World
The Child and His Home
Journal Article The Child and His Home Get access Elizabeth Craig, Elizabeth Craig The New England Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Cheney C. Jones Cheney C. Jones The New England Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 16, Issue 1, October 1937, Pages 140–…
Materializing piety
Islamic consumption promises to correct the ills of consumption yet relies on the logic of consumption for its appeal. Fashionably pious women in Indonesia have become figures of concern, suspected of being more invested in the material, and hence superficial, world than their virtuous appearances suggest. Arguing that consumption and religion are interdependent systems of faith, I show that women bear unusual semiotic burdens at the borders of m…
Whose stress? Emotion work in middle-class Javanese homes
By attending to ways in which middle-class wives in Yogyakarta, Java, describe negotiating sentiments among family members (including children, maids and husbands), this article argues that domestic relations in middle-class homes in Java have been importantly inflected by state rhetoric on gender propriety and market ideas of work. As a result, both middle-class women and maids have come to conceive of emotion work as part of an array of domesti…
Better Women
Through analysis of an increasingly popular phenomenon of courses training feminine comportment in Indonesia, I argue in this article that the appeal and work of femininity can be analyzed as a form of what Timothy Mitchell has called the "rule of experts." Building on Mitchell, I suggest that expertise is central to authoritarian projects and postauthoritarian aftermath and is especially evident in zones that masquerade as least public and yet m…
Fashion and Faith in Urban Indonesia
In the past fifteen years, urban Indonesian women have increasingly chosen to adopt a form of Islamic dress called busana Muslim. This shift could be read as an index of two apparently contradictory or mutually exclusive phenomena, a rise in Islamic piety and a rise in consumerism. This article suggests that rather than reducing the popularity of Islamic fashion in contemporary Indonesia to either religion or consumerism, the rise of Islamic fash…
Images of Desire
The recent and highly visible rise of Islamic consumer culture in contemporary urban Indonesia is a source of both pleasure and anxiety for many Indonesians, figuring in debates about the appeal of a new piety there in the past decade. At the center of these debates is the image of the piously dressed woman. Simultaneously a consumer and a sign of piety, modest yet attractive, she seems to blur assumptions about the boundaries between image and s…
Transnational conceptions of Islamic community
What Happens When Asian Chic Becomes Chic in Asia
Style on Trial
In the two decades since the end of Suharto regime in Indonesia, two apparently distinct public industries have emerged in tandem: gendered forms of religious style, glossed as modest fashion, and legal efforts to hold citizens accountable for theft, glossed as corruption. Many of the most high-profile anti-corruption cases in the past decade have brought these two fields into semiotic interaction, as female defendants increasingly deploy forms o…
Gender Diversity in Indonesia
Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves." Asian Studies Review, 36(4), pp. 585–586
The Child and His Home
Journal Article The Child and His Home Get access Elizabeth Craig, Elizabeth Craig The New England Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Cheney C. Jones Cheney C. Jones The New England Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 16, Issue 1, October 1937, Pages 140–…
QEA RWMH. The Worship of the Goddess Roma in the Greek World
What Happens When Asian Chic Becomes Chic in Asia
Whose stress? Emotion work in middle-class Javanese homes
By attending to ways in which middle-class wives in Yogyakarta, Java, describe negotiating sentiments among family members (including children, maids and husbands), this article argues that domestic relations in middle-class homes in Java have been importantly inflected by state rhetoric on gender propriety and market ideas of work. As a result, both middle-class women and maids have come to conceive of emotion work as part of an array of domesti…
Fashion and Faith in Urban Indonesia
In the past fifteen years, urban Indonesian women have increasingly chosen to adopt a form of Islamic dress called busana Muslim. This shift could be read as an index of two apparently contradictory or mutually exclusive phenomena, a rise in Islamic piety and a rise in consumerism. This article suggests that rather than reducing the popularity of Islamic fashion in contemporary Indonesia to either religion or consumerism, the rise of Islamic fash…
Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives
Images of Desire
The recent and highly visible rise of Islamic consumer culture in contemporary urban Indonesia is a source of both pleasure and anxiety for many Indonesians, figuring in debates about the appeal of a new piety there in the past decade. At the center of these debates is the image of the piously dressed woman. Simultaneously a consumer and a sign of piety, modest yet attractive, she seems to blur assumptions about the boundaries between image and s…
Better Women
Through analysis of an increasingly popular phenomenon of courses training feminine comportment in Indonesia, I argue in this article that the appeal and work of femininity can be analyzed as a form of what Timothy Mitchell has called the "rule of experts." Building on Mitchell, I suggest that expertise is central to authoritarian projects and postauthoritarian aftermath and is especially evident in zones that masquerade as least public and yet m…
Materializing piety
Islamic consumption promises to correct the ills of consumption yet relies on the logic of consumption for its appeal. Fashionably pious women in Indonesia have become figures of concern, suspected of being more invested in the material, and hence superficial, world than their virtuous appearances suggest. Arguing that consumption and religion are interdependent systems of faith, I show that women bear unusual semiotic burdens at the borders of m…
Proper Islamic Consumption
Transnational conceptions of Islamic community
Mediating Piety
Mediating Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia, edited by Francis Khek Gee Lim, Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2009, xii + 240pp. ISBN 978 90 04 17839 7, US$117 (hbk) As the global media
Spiritual Economies
The Global Middle Classes
Surging middle-class aspirations and anxieties throughout world have recently compelled anthropologists to pay serious attention to middle and middle-class spaces, sentiments, lifestyles, labours, and civic engagements. Middle classness has become a powerful category for self-identification, as political and corporate leaders increasingly hail the middle classes as ideal subject-citizenry. Ethnographically rich and culturally particular, essays i…
Gender Diversity in Indonesia
Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves." Asian Studies Review, 36(4), pp. 585–586
Gender Matters
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCarla JonesAuthor Details:Dr Carla Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 233, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Piety
Anthropological analyses of piety treat it as the principle and practice of devotion. Anthropological research takes seriously the wide diversity of pious practices around the world. Rather than assume that piety refers only to Christian practice, research underscores the complex ethical assumptions that link piety to the religious and to the political and economic. Research on piety connects forms of self‐improvement and ethical practice to soci…
AFA's Live Annual Review 2017
Feminist Anthropology in an Urgent Moment
Feminist Anthropology for Our Times
Mualaf Chic
Scholars of the visible rise of public forms of Islamic piety movements in Indonesia in the past two decades have noted its transnational character. Unsurprisingly, Arab inspiration has been prominent, as direct clerical influence and indirect aesthetic prestige. In this article, I suggest that another feature of this shared religious community relays a slightly different allure, that of accessing and domesticating foreignness through conversion …
Style on Trial
In the two decades since the end of Suharto regime in Indonesia, two apparently distinct public industries have emerged in tandem: gendered forms of religious style, glossed as modest fashion, and legal efforts to hold citizens accountable for theft, glossed as corruption. Many of the most high-profile anti-corruption cases in the past decade have brought these two fields into semiotic interaction, as female defendants increasingly deploy forms o…
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