Pam Nilan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pam Nilan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pam |
| FAMILY NAME | Nilan |
| SIGNATURE | NILAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2092-2179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Contextualising the Subculture/Post-Subculture Debate: Young Indonesian Musicians Navigating Careers in the Digital Era
Researching Young People and Far-Right Populism
This paper considers the challenges facing qualitative researchers who study far-right populism and youth. First, there is the question of the method itself. Across the relevant literature, it seems more popular to use online methodologies rather than conduct face-to-face interviews. This is not surprising given the difficulties of talking face-to-face with a specific cohort of young people who are often suspicious of outsiders and who may even p…
Masculinities, Citizenship and Right-Wing Populism in Australia
In the settler-colonial context of Australia, this paper addresses the specific framing of masculinity with which right-wing populism seeks to engage. It reports on a recent online survey completed by 335 men. Their written responses pointed to troubles in their lives, including difficult relationship and career circumstances. However, they did not hold the vicissitudes of neo-liberal economics to account, but rather assigned blame to the ‘other’…
Rebel imaginings: Street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Street art in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta is popular, dynamic and vibrant. Like other cities such as Buenos Aires, it has become something of a tourist attraction in its own right. This article examines Yogyakarta street art as a visual phenomenon that activates political change potential in three ways. First, it provokes the critical consideration of ordinary people who pass by the walls and surfaces of the city every day. Second, it sugge…
Religion and youth activism for viability in Indonesia
What Got You through Lockdown: Exploring the Role of Everyday Objects in Building Resilience and Wellbeing during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Introduction While individuals from marginalised and vulnerable communities have long been confronted with the task of developing coping strategies, COVID-19 lockdowns intensified the conditions under which resilience and wellbeing were/are negotiated, not only for marginalised communities but for people from all walks of life. In particular, the pandemic has highlighted in simple terms the stark divide between the “haves” and “have nots”, and ho…
Gendered youth transitions in local jihad in Indonesia: Negotiating Agency in Arranged Marriage
In accounts of local Islamist jihad, little attention has been directed to how young women exercise agency when they face arranged marriages with jihadi fighters. They undergo a different kind of life transition, one that has rarely been examined in youth studies. This paper reports on a study of how young female Muslims in arranged marriages with mujahidin men navigated their transitions to adulthood in Eastern Indonesia. The study employed an e…
Catholic youth and nationalist identity in Java, Indonesia
With a focus on contemporary religion, this article considers Catholic youth in Muslim-majority Indonesia who are active in the public sphere and committed to the cause of nationalist unity. A current push by Islamist extremists threatens and excludes those of other faiths. Young Catholics are sometimes made to feel as though they do not belong in the modern imaginings of caliphate and enforced Shari’a law. They find the marginalisation deeply di…
Young People and the Far Right
Challenging Islamist Populism in Indonesia through Catholic Youth Activism
This paper reports data from a study of young Catholic activists. They were concerned about the expansion of Islamist populism in democratic Muslim-majority Indonesia. They actively built inter-faith coalitions with local liberal Muslim youth groups and with pan-national Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest independent Islamic organisation in the world. Islamist populism prioritises religious identity over the national identity of citizenship. In fr…
Muslim youth environmentalists in Indonesia
This paper examines interview data from 20 young Muslim environmentalists in Indonesia. The data comes from a much broader research project on how people in Indonesia become environmentalists. The data for this extensive, multi-method Australian Research Council project undertaken between 2013 and 2017 was collected according to the overall aim of finding out how Indonesian people, in this instance, Indonesian youth, become environmentalists. The…
Máiréad Dunn, Naureen Durrani, Kathleen Fincham and Barbara Crossouard, Troubling Muslim Youth Identities: Nation, Religion, Gender
Career quandaries of activist environmental engineering graduates in Indonesia
This article reports on a study that aimed to investigate how young Indonesians might become environmentalists, and what happens when they do. It uses a Bourdieusian framework to analyse interviews with six Indonesian environmental engineering students who took an active role in environmental conservation campaigns while studying at the prestigious University of Technology Bandung (ITB) in Indonesia. In 2014, they were pondering the challenge of …
Indonesian Youth, Global Environmentalism and Transnational Mining
Indonesian activist students are highly conscious of the environmental risks facing Indonesia and the world. Yet they also want to make good lives for themselves in a nation experiencing strong economic growth. Using the work of Ulrich Beck, this paper examines the accounts of environmental engineering students at a prestigious university who are pro-environmental activists on campus. In interviews, they admitted that it will be difficult to nego…
Veivosaki - yaga: A culturally appropriate Indigenous research method in Fiji
This article reports on the development of a new culturally sensitive approach to collecting group discussion data in the Pacific: veivosaki-yaga. The new approach was developed during a project on Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) in multicultural Fiji. One challenge was to gain understanding from villages of parental attitudes towards TVET. While focus groups proved to answer the purpose for Indian Fijian parents, they were deemed cultu…
The Constrained Position of Young Musicians in the Yogyakarta Jazz Community
This article gives a critical account of the development of the jazz scene in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, since the 1980s. It looks specifically at the question of why young jazz musicians did not take the initiative in creating new kinds of jazz composition and playing, unlike their age peers in other nonmainstream music genres. In other words, why was there so little DIY (do it yourself) ethos in the Yogyakarta jazz scene? The interpretation of rele…
Muslim Youth in the Diaspora: Challenging Extremism through Popular Culture
In a world where the term Islam is ever-increasingly an inaccurate and insensitive synonym for terrorism, it is unsurprising that many Muslim youth in the West struggle for a viable sense of identity. This book takes up the hotly-debated issue of Muslim youth identity in western countries from the standpoint of popular culture. It proposes that in the context of Islamophobia and pervasive moral panic, young Muslims frame up their identity in rela…
The ecological habitus of Indonesian student environmentalism
This article considers the concept of ecological habitus in relation to pro-environmental discourses of Indonesian student activists. Further Bourdieusian concepts, cultural capital, illusio, doxa and hysteresis, throw interpretive light on how well-educated young Indonesians struggle in the field of environmental activism. It first outlines the concept of ecological habitus in relation to pro-environmental activism and then provides a discussion…
Young Indonesian Musicians, Strategic Social Capital, Reflexivity, and Timing
In this article, we draw on a study of the transition experiences of young Indonesian musicians to argue that the social capital of creative youth may be productively understood in relation to reflexivity and temporality. This is particularly important if they move to other locations to further their careers. In brief, we offer three key contributions to social capital debates. First, social capital-as defined by Bourdieu-is most important as a v…
Youth, Space and Time: Agoras and Chronotopes in the Global City
This book engages with the experience of space and time in youth cultures across the world. Putting together contemporary case studies on young transnationalists, young glocals and young protesters in cities on the five continents, it analyzes new agoras and chronotopes in global cities. It is based on a selection of papers first presented to the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee 34 session on Youth Cultures, Space a…
Keep the hope alive: Young Indonesian musicians’ views of the future
Using ethnographic and interview data, this article explores hopes for the future of young Indonesian musicians. The young people are seen to consider their future trajectories in multiple, hierarchical music fields. The article also takes into account the ontological insecurity of jobs as a professional musician, arguing that there is continuous reproduction of a doxa, namely ‘survival of the fittest’ in Indonesia. Yet despite abundant risks to …
Becoming” an environmentalist in Indonesia
Australian Muslim Jobseekers and Social Capital
This article uses the concept of social capital to analyse data about Muslim jobseekers attempting to enter the Australian labour market. They often relied on their own social networks to find work rather than maximize the support of employment service providers. The study demonstrated the range of Muslim jobseekers and their social networks in an atmosphere of fear and intolerance. Three categories of Muslim jobseekers - from advantaged to disad…
Youth, Social Media, and Cyberbullying Among Australian Youth: Sick Friends
Cyberbullying is a relatively recent phenomenon that can have significant consequences for young people's wellbeing due to the specific technological affordances of social media. To date, research into cyberbullying has been largely quantitative; thus, it often elides the complexity of the issue. Moreover, most studies have been 'top down,' excluding young people's views. Our qualitative research findings suggest that young people engage in cyber…
Queer punx: Young women in the Newcastle hardcore space
This article investigates the ‘becoming’ of queer female punx in the contemporary hardcore scene in a regional Australian city. Twelve young women aged 20–30 years were interviewed about their experiences of queer identity. They emphasized their involvement in the music scene as a key catalyst for the development of a queer punk identity even though the local hardcore scene is male-dominated and homosocial. We find that these young female queer p…
Reflexivity of Contemporary Youth, Risk and Cultural Capital
Using research examples, this article expands the theoretical premise that the 'new' reflexivity constitutes an element of cultural capital for contemporary youth. Employing the sociological ideas of cultural capital, habitus, reflexivity and risk, the authors propose that Beck's notion of 'risk' provides a useful way of understanding what drives the development of this reflexivity in the habitus of groups of young people, especially negotiation …
Youth transitions to urban, middle-class marriage in Indonesia: Faith, family and finances
This paper examines a timely topic in international youth studies – the transition to (middle-class) marriage – in a developing country, Indonesia. While early marriage in Indonesia is still common in rural areas and marriage itself remains almost universal, these trends are moving into reverse for urban, tertiary-educated middle-class young people. Discussion of the data begins with an analysis of survey responses and ‘fictionalised’ fieldwork n…
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…
Exclusion, Inclusion and Moral Ordering in Two Girls’ Friendship Groups
This article makes use of informal interview talk data gathered during a longitudinal study of adolescent girls’ friendship groups. Two group‐produced narratives involving categorisation, moral ordering, inclusion and exclusion are examined with the aim of discerning patterns of girls’ friendship networks. Through a detailed examination of the girls’ talk about themselves, their friends, their enemies, the minor breaking‐ups and making‐ups, the d…
You're Hopeless I Swear to God: Shifting masculinities in classroom talk
In this article the author aims to problematise the discourse of masculinity in the co-educational classroom. Moving strategically sideways to focus on boys rather than girls, it is argued that 'masculinity' is not a fixed essence but a shifting gendered social identity. Although mass culture generally assumes there is a fixed, true masculinity, not all boys and men take up the same kind of masculinity, nor do they experience 'maleness' in the sa…
Becoming” an environmentalist in Indonesia
Indonesian Men’s Perceptions of Violence Against Women
This article explores male perceptions and attitudes toward violence against women in Indonesia. It analyzes interview data from Indonesian men collected as part of a large multimethod Australian government-funded project on masculinities and violence in two Asian countries. Reluctance to talk about violence against women was evident, and the accounts of those men who did respond referred to three justificatory discourses: denial, blaming the vic…
Gender as positioned identity maintenance in everyday discourse
(1994). Gender as positioned identity maintenance in everyday discourse. Social Semiotics: Vol. 4, No. 1-2, pp. 139-162
Muslim youth environmentalists in Indonesia
This paper examines interview data from 20 young Muslim environmentalists in Indonesia. The data comes from a much broader research project on how people in Indonesia become environmentalists. The data for this extensive, multi-method Australian Research Council project undertaken between 2013 and 2017 was collected according to the overall aim of finding out how Indonesian people, in this instance, Indonesian youth, become environmentalists. The…
Veivosaki - yaga: A culturally appropriate Indigenous research method in Fiji
This article reports on the development of a new culturally sensitive approach to collecting group discussion data in the Pacific: veivosaki-yaga. The new approach was developed during a project on Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) in multicultural Fiji. One challenge was to gain understanding from villages of parental attitudes towards TVET. While focus groups proved to answer the purpose for Indian Fijian parents, they were deemed cultu…
Risk and Risk Management for Australian Sex Workers
In this article, we address the experiences of female sex workers in urban Australia through analysis of interviews using a feminist approach. Although many previous studies have been conducted, our focus was on the voices of sex workers in an area that was rapidly gentrifying, leading to local community tensions. Intensive analysis of interview transcripts was employed to derive thematic codes for understanding how the women viewed and managed e…
Young People and Globalizing Trends in Vietnam
The past 10 years have seen an increasing research emphasis on young people and youth culture. The appearance of this very journal is testimony to a surge in academic interest. However, not much has so far been written in this vein about youth culture phenomena in post-Communist countries undergoing radical change towards a market economy. Yet this is clearly a very interesting investigation as one of the great meta-narratives of history—State Co…
The ecological habitus of Indonesian student environmentalism
This article considers the concept of ecological habitus in relation to pro-environmental discourses of Indonesian student activists. Further Bourdieusian concepts, cultural capital, illusio, doxa and hysteresis, throw interpretive light on how well-educated young Indonesians struggle in the field of environmental activism. It first outlines the concept of ecological habitus in relation to pro-environmental activism and then provides a discussion…
Australian Muslim Jobseekers: Equal Employment Opportunity and Equity in the Labor Market
The experience of job market disadvantage is not a novel phenomenon for some in contemporary Australia, even in the face of embedded equal employment opportunity (EEO) ideals. This article addresses the phenomenon of persistent job market disadvantage for some minority groups by presenting new data from a major multi-method study on labor market obstacles for Muslims seeking jobs in Australia. Responses from jobseekers and employment service prov…
Young Indonesian Musicians, Strategic Social Capital, Reflexivity, and Timing
In this article, we draw on a study of the transition experiences of young Indonesian musicians to argue that the social capital of creative youth may be productively understood in relation to reflexivity and temporality. This is particularly important if they move to other locations to further their careers. In brief, we offer three key contributions to social capital debates. First, social capital-as defined by Bourdieu-is most important as a v…
Australian Muslim Jobseekers and Social Capital
This article uses the concept of social capital to analyse data about Muslim jobseekers attempting to enter the Australian labour market. They often relied on their own social networks to find work rather than maximize the support of employment service providers. The study demonstrated the range of Muslim jobseekers and their social networks in an atmosphere of fear and intolerance. Three categories of Muslim jobseekers - from advantaged to disad…
Youth, Social Media, and Cyberbullying Among Australian Youth: Sick Friends
Cyberbullying is a relatively recent phenomenon that can have significant consequences for young people's wellbeing due to the specific technological affordances of social media. To date, research into cyberbullying has been largely quantitative; thus, it often elides the complexity of the issue. Moreover, most studies have been 'top down,' excluding young people's views. Our qualitative research findings suggest that young people engage in cyber…
Young Men and Peer Fighting in Solo, Indonesia
This article considers peer fighting between lower middle-class Javanese schoolboys with a view to describing the masculine habitus referenced in local collective violence. Acknowledging the long history of heroic warfare and factionalism in Java, the data points to the pleasurable sense of oneself as a kind of warrior fighting with a band of brothers. Four important points emerge about contemporary youthful masculinities here. First, peer fighti…
The ‘spirit of education’ in Indonesian Pesantren
This paper employs Foucauldian theory to consider Islamic boarding school experiences in Indonesia. For some pupils ‘the spirit of education’ – a dimension of pleasure – comes to be highly valued, creating a lifelong passion for the pursuit of knowledge. Two school principals (both pesantren [Islamic boarding school] graduates themselves) articulated strong commitment to the ‘spirit of education’. Yet their respective boarding schools were very p…
Culturas juveniles globales
El presente artículo estudia el mito del adolescente global y lo encuentra una afirmación exagerada. Es mejor intentar entender las culturas juveniles globales como algo que surge como reacción a las percepciones y experiencias del riesgo generacional en las condiciones de la globalización contemporánea tales como el rápido crecimiento urbano. En dicho contexto, tanto las subculturas juveniles oposicionales como las identidades colectivas que cre…
Negotiating Gendered Identity in Classroom Disputes and Collaboration
In a mixed ability co-educational secondary classroom male and female students grapple with notions of femininity and masculinity while collectively developing a play for performance. A dispute arises when some of the girls push for themes common to teen romance fiction. Other students, male and female, strongly voice their disapproval of this trend. The teacher finds it hard to arbitrate effectively. Later, a high-achieving middle-class boy and …
Religion and youth activism for viability in Indonesia
Gendered youth transitions in local jihad in Indonesia: Negotiating Agency in Arranged Marriage
In accounts of local Islamist jihad, little attention has been directed to how young women exercise agency when they face arranged marriages with jihadi fighters. They undergo a different kind of life transition, one that has rarely been examined in youth studies. This paper reports on a study of how young female Muslims in arranged marriages with mujahidin men navigated their transitions to adulthood in Eastern Indonesia. The study employed an e…
Challenging Islamist Populism in Indonesia through Catholic Youth Activism
This paper reports data from a study of young Catholic activists. They were concerned about the expansion of Islamist populism in democratic Muslim-majority Indonesia. They actively built inter-faith coalitions with local liberal Muslim youth groups and with pan-national Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest independent Islamic organisation in the world. Islamist populism prioritises religious identity over the national identity of citizenship. In fr…
Keep the hope alive: Young Indonesian musicians’ views of the future
Using ethnographic and interview data, this article explores hopes for the future of young Indonesian musicians. The young people are seen to consider their future trajectories in multiple, hierarchical music fields. The article also takes into account the ontological insecurity of jobs as a professional musician, arguing that there is continuous reproduction of a doxa, namely ‘survival of the fittest’ in Indonesia. Yet despite abundant risks to …
Exclusion, Inclusion and Moral Ordering in Two Girls’ Friendship Groups
This article makes use of informal interview talk data gathered during a longitudinal study of adolescent girls’ friendship groups. Two group‐produced narratives involving categorisation, moral ordering, inclusion and exclusion are examined with the aim of discerning patterns of girls’ friendship networks. Through a detailed examination of the girls’ talk about themselves, their friends, their enemies, the minor breaking‐ups and making‐ups, the d…
Gender as positioned identity maintenance in everyday discourse
(1994). Gender as positioned identity maintenance in everyday discourse. Social Semiotics: Vol. 4, No. 1-2, pp. 139-162
Negotiating Gendered Identity in Classroom Disputes and Collaboration
In a mixed ability co-educational secondary classroom male and female students grapple with notions of femininity and masculinity while collectively developing a play for performance. A dispute arises when some of the girls push for themes common to teen romance fiction. Other students, male and female, strongly voice their disapproval of this trend. The teacher finds it hard to arbitrate effectively. Later, a high-achieving middle-class boy and …
Making Up Men
There has been considerable research on the extent to which male and female school students produce stereotypical representations of women during their creation of visual and written texts in the classroom. Using the technique of discourse analysis, this paper examines a coeducational secondary school drama class in which a process of collective script creation is taking place. Both female and male students advance suggestions which construct ste…
Young People and Globalizing Trends in Vietnam
The past 10 years have seen an increasing research emphasis on young people and youth culture. The appearance of this very journal is testimony to a surge in academic interest. However, not much has so far been written in this vein about youth culture phenomena in post-Communist countries undergoing radical change towards a market economy. Yet this is clearly a very interesting investigation as one of the great meta-narratives of history—State Co…
You're Hopeless I Swear to God: Shifting masculinities in classroom talk
In this article the author aims to problematise the discourse of masculinity in the co-educational classroom. Moving strategically sideways to focus on boys rather than girls, it is argued that 'masculinity' is not a fixed essence but a shifting gendered social identity. Although mass culture generally assumes there is a fixed, true masculinity, not all boys and men take up the same kind of masculinity, nor do they experience 'maleness' in the sa…
Gendered Dreams: Women Watching Sinetron (Soap Operas) on Indonesian Tv
Gendered dreams: Women watching sinetron (soap operas) on Indonesian TV
Gendered Dreams: Women Watching Sinetron (Soap Operas) on Indonesian Tv
Teachers' Work and Schooling in Bali
Culturas juveniles globales
El presente artículo estudia el mito del adolescente global y lo encuentra una afirmación exagerada. Es mejor intentar entender las culturas juveniles globales como algo que surge como reacción a las percepciones y experiencias del riesgo generacional en las condiciones de la globalización contemporánea tales como el rápido crecimiento urbano. En dicho contexto, tanto las subculturas juveniles oposicionales como las identidades colectivas que cre…
Global Youth
Introduction: Youth Hybridity and Plural Worlds 1. European Youth Cultures in a Post Colonial World: British Asian Underground and French Hip-Hop Music Scenes 2. `I am English too': Francophone Youth Hybridities in Canada 3. Ingenious: Emerging Hybrid Youth Cultures in Western Sydney 4. The Social Life of Japan's Adolechnic 5. The Reflexive Youth Culture of Devout Muslim Youth in Indonesia 6. Youth Subcultures in Post-Revolution Iran: An Alternat…
Balancing Economic and other Discourses in the Internationalization of Higher Education in South Africa
Youth transitions to urban, middle-class marriage in Indonesia: Faith, family and finances
This paper examines a timely topic in international youth studies – the transition to (middle-class) marriage – in a developing country, Indonesia. While early marriage in Indonesia is still common in rural areas and marriage itself remains almost universal, these trends are moving into reverse for urban, tertiary-educated middle-class young people. Discussion of the data begins with an analysis of survey responses and ‘fictionalised’ fieldwork n…
Contemporary Masculinities and Young Men in Indonesia
This article is on three kinds of contemporary young masculinities in Indonesia. Proceeding through a discussion of three composite profiles of young men assembled from fieldwork data, the argument is made that these three identifiable discourses of lived masculinity correspond to some dominant images of men circulating in the Indonesian media. Theoretically, these seem to be new or alternative constructions of masculinity, if considered against …
The ‘spirit of education’ in Indonesian Pesantren
This paper employs Foucauldian theory to consider Islamic boarding school experiences in Indonesia. For some pupils ‘the spirit of education’ – a dimension of pleasure – comes to be highly valued, creating a lifelong passion for the pursuit of knowledge. Two school principals (both pesantren [Islamic boarding school] graduates themselves) articulated strong commitment to the ‘spirit of education’. Yet their respective boarding schools were very p…
Reflexivity of Contemporary Youth, Risk and Cultural Capital
Using research examples, this article expands the theoretical premise that the 'new' reflexivity constitutes an element of cultural capital for contemporary youth. Employing the sociological ideas of cultural capital, habitus, reflexivity and risk, the authors propose that Beck's notion of 'risk' provides a useful way of understanding what drives the development of this reflexivity in the habitus of groups of young people, especially negotiation …
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…
Risk and Risk Management for Australian Sex Workers
In this article, we address the experiences of female sex workers in urban Australia through analysis of interviews using a feminist approach. Although many previous studies have been conducted, our focus was on the voices of sex workers in an area that was rapidly gentrifying, leading to local community tensions. Intensive analysis of interview transcripts was employed to derive thematic codes for understanding how the women viewed and managed e…
Young Men and Peer Fighting in Solo, Indonesia
This article considers peer fighting between lower middle-class Javanese schoolboys with a view to describing the masculine habitus referenced in local collective violence. Acknowledging the long history of heroic warfare and factionalism in Java, the data points to the pleasurable sense of oneself as a kind of warrior fighting with a band of brothers. Four important points emerge about contemporary youthful masculinities here. First, peer fighti…
Adolescents in Contemporary Indonesia
The youth demographic is a large and growing cohort in Indonesia, and adolescents embody the currents of social change. Throughout the twentieth century they were significant agents of social protest leading to social and political transformation. This book looks at the importance of adolescents in contemporary Indonesia, and how they are spearheading not just globalisation and a growing consumer youth culture, but also the Islamisation movement.…
Youth culture and Islam in Indonesia
Indonesian youth culture is sometimes depicted through a moral panic discourse about mixed sex socializing. In this article, the authors challenge that view by presenting some ethnographic material on young Muslim Indonesians of both sexes socialising in an internet café and gathering during Ramadhan in a mall in Solo, Central Java. Young Indonesians enact everyday youth culture through the negotiation of space, time, and technology within the st…
Australian Muslim Jobseekers: Equal Employment Opportunity and Equity in the Labor Market
The experience of job market disadvantage is not a novel phenomenon for some in contemporary Australia, even in the face of embedded equal employment opportunity (EEO) ideals. This article addresses the phenomenon of persistent job market disadvantage for some minority groups by presenting new data from a major multi-method study on labor market obstacles for Muslims seeking jobs in Australia. Responses from jobseekers and employment service prov…
Queer punx: Young women in the Newcastle hardcore space
This article investigates the ‘becoming’ of queer female punx in the contemporary hardcore scene in a regional Australian city. Twelve young women aged 20–30 years were interviewed about their experiences of queer identity. They emphasized their involvement in the music scene as a key catalyst for the development of a queer punk identity even though the local hardcore scene is male-dominated and homosocial. We find that these young female queer p…
Indonesian Men’s Perceptions of Violence Against Women
This article explores male perceptions and attitudes toward violence against women in Indonesia. It analyzes interview data from Indonesian men collected as part of a large multimethod Australian government-funded project on masculinities and violence in two Asian countries. Reluctance to talk about violence against women was evident, and the accounts of those men who did respond referred to three justificatory discourses: denial, blaming the vic…
Sociology (41 works) · Political science (33 works) · Gender Studies (27 works) · Law (22 works) · Indonesian (19 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Social science (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (13 works)