Annisa R Beta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3811026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annisa R Beta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annisa R |
| FAMILY NAME | Beta |
| SIGNATURE | BETA A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8072-2457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction; Media and cultural commoning
In popular parlance, the “commons” is frequently evoked as if its meaning were self-evident. The term gestures toward collectiveness, shared responsibility, community resilience, solidarity, and the redistribution of resources. At a historical moment when individualism, competitive gatekeeping, entrenched hierarchies, heteropatriarchy, and late-stage capitalism continue to fail at offering liveable futures, the commons is, understandably, an attr…
Gender and Knowledge in Indonesia
This Special Issue explores how academics live, make sense of, and re-imagine knowledge work in neoliberalising Indonesia using a feminist lens. It situates this inquiry in Indonesia, where the so-called ‘knowledge economy’ – like those across Southeast Asia – emerges through uneven encounters between neoliberal reform, state developmentalism, and local moral logics of pedagogy. These intersections have reconfigured the meaning and value of acade…
Gender, sexuality and Islam in contemporary Indonesia
Shifting the Paradigm
In this article we examine the discourse surrounding girlhood in Indonesia through a scoping review of research and gray literature from 2013 to 2022, alongside reference to a workshop with researchers and advocates. Themes related to sexuality and reproduction are dominant in our findings. We argue that the scholarly and civic engagements with knowledge about girls and young women in Indonesia limit the modality of knowledge production and chang…
The “Funny Line Veil” and the mediated political subjectivity of Muslim women in Indonesia
The growing use of the internet, especially in urban centres, has made social media the contemporary discursive battleground for Muslims to dispute their cultural and political subjectivities. Muslim womanhood, particularly, has always been a concept under constant scrutiny. Previously, narratives about the ideal Muslim women were dominated by male preachers in mosques and public seminars. Nonetheless, social media has given Muslim women a platfo…
Digital citizenship in Asia
This paper situates the theory and practice of digital citizenship in general and Asia in particular. It surveys four extant thematic clusters: (1) the democratizing potential of information and communication technologies; (2) the role of digital citizenship education; (3) the power structures of technology in shaping citizen participation, and; (4) the digital emancipation of marginalized groups and communities. It highlights a new fifth cluster…
The Mode of Reflexive Practice among Young Indonesian Creative Workers in the Time of Covid-19
This article examines reflexive practice among young creative workers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, during COVID-19. Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a series of relentless and overlapping crises across the Indonesian archipelago. In urban centres across Indonesia, the arts and creative sectors are among the key economic sectors severely afflicted by the pandemic. COVID-19 implies a lot more than the loss of income and livelihood…
Out of thin air
Indonesia’s bid to be the world’s Muslim fashion capital involves a growing number of female Muslim fashion designers and business owners. With more urban Indonesian young women adopting modest clothing, increasing state support for creative and digital economy, and ease of access and distribution, the market expansion of the Muslim fashion industry allows young Muslim women to become successful entrepreneurs and good virtuous Muslims at the same…
The Muslimah Intimate Public
This article reconsiders contemporary digital activism in an increasingly pious Indonesia and responds to Eva F. Nisa’s 2018 paper on young Muslim women as daʾwa (proselytization) activists published in this journal. This paper asks: How have today’s socially mediated publics in Indonesia influenced the figure of the daʾwa activist? How are these daʾwa activists different from those in the past? I argue that the daʾwa activists are the products o…
Knowing responsibly
Despite increasing scholarship on Indonesian women, issues on girlhood, continues to be unrecognized. When they enter the frame of discussion, Indonesian girls are discussed as targets of development projects or at-risk subjects. This article asks: Why are girls studies overlooked in Indonesia? What potentials do the Indonesian girls have for the feminist scholarship and girls studies? How can we be mindful of making knowledge about Indonesian gi…
Politics of youth survival in times of crisis
This essay discusses the discursive shift in the idealized youth citizenship in Indonesia and recent instances that demonstrate the state’s ambivalent treatments of its youth as exemplified with the millennial aides and the government’s lack of support to its young labour force during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. I propose that the pandemic has further established uncertainty and insecurity as the “normal” in young people’s lives. This essa…
Are Indonesian Girls Okay? An Examination of The Discourse of Child Marriage, Victimization, and Humanitarian Visuality of Global South Girls
The discourse of child marriage in relation to the lives of the girls in Indonesia specifically and the Global South generally is often limited to describing their vulnerability and position as victims. Practices of child marriage are inseparable from its exploitative and harmful nature. This paper, however, shows that the discourse of child marriage produced in humanitarian projects and interventions often avoids the complexity and diversity of …
Digital Literacy Through Digital Citizenship
The field of critical digital literacy studies has burgeoned in recent years as a result of the increased cultural consumption of digital media as well as the turn to the production of digital media forms. This article extends extant digital literacy studies by focusing on its subfield of digital citizenship. Proposing that digital citizenship is not another dimension or axis of citizenship, but a practice through which civic activities in the va…
Commerce, piety and politics
The article discusses the indiscernibility of social-media-based young Muslim women’s groups’ (YMWGs) transformative roles in socio-political analysis, standing in contrast to the groups’ visibility in Indonesian young women’s everyday lives. How does the (in)visibility of the YMWGs reconfigure the (political) subjectivity of Muslim womanhood? How should we understand the influence of this form of ‘women’s movement’ in the re-invention of Muslim …
Hijabers
This paper analyzes the dissemination of ‘Hijaber’ style through different forms of cyber media (blogs and social network sites) in order to determine how young, computer savvy Muslim Indonesians explore their gender and religious identities while working in the ‘creative economy’ through cyberspace. This article shows the plurality and flexibility of the Hijaber trend—compared to more conventional forms—and explores its significance for urban In…
Commerce, piety and politics
The article discusses the indiscernibility of social-media-based young Muslim women’s groups’ (YMWGs) transformative roles in socio-political analysis, standing in contrast to the groups’ visibility in Indonesian young women’s everyday lives. How does the (in)visibility of the YMWGs reconfigure the (political) subjectivity of Muslim womanhood? How should we understand the influence of this form of ‘women’s movement’ in the re-invention of Muslim …
Hijabers
This paper analyzes the dissemination of ‘Hijaber’ style through different forms of cyber media (blogs and social network sites) in order to determine how young, computer savvy Muslim Indonesians explore their gender and religious identities while working in the ‘creative economy’ through cyberspace. This article shows the plurality and flexibility of the Hijaber trend—compared to more conventional forms—and explores its significance for urban In…
Politics of youth survival in times of crisis
This essay discusses the discursive shift in the idealized youth citizenship in Indonesia and recent instances that demonstrate the state’s ambivalent treatments of its youth as exemplified with the millennial aides and the government’s lack of support to its young labour force during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. I propose that the pandemic has further established uncertainty and insecurity as the “normal” in young people’s lives. This essa…
Digital citizenship in Asia
This paper situates the theory and practice of digital citizenship in general and Asia in particular. It surveys four extant thematic clusters: (1) the democratizing potential of information and communication technologies; (2) the role of digital citizenship education; (3) the power structures of technology in shaping citizen participation, and; (4) the digital emancipation of marginalized groups and communities. It highlights a new fifth cluster…
Knowing responsibly
Despite increasing scholarship on Indonesian women, issues on girlhood, continues to be unrecognized. When they enter the frame of discussion, Indonesian girls are discussed as targets of development projects or at-risk subjects. This article asks: Why are girls studies overlooked in Indonesia? What potentials do the Indonesian girls have for the feminist scholarship and girls studies? How can we be mindful of making knowledge about Indonesian gi…
Are Indonesian Girls Okay? An Examination of The Discourse of Child Marriage, Victimization, and Humanitarian Visuality of Global South Girls
The discourse of child marriage in relation to the lives of the girls in Indonesia specifically and the Global South generally is often limited to describing their vulnerability and position as victims. Practices of child marriage are inseparable from its exploitative and harmful nature. This paper, however, shows that the discourse of child marriage produced in humanitarian projects and interventions often avoids the complexity and diversity of …
Hijabers
This paper analyzes the dissemination of ‘Hijaber’ style through different forms of cyber media (blogs and social network sites) in order to determine how young, computer savvy Muslim Indonesians explore their gender and religious identities while working in the ‘creative economy’ through cyberspace. This article shows the plurality and flexibility of the Hijaber trend—compared to more conventional forms—and explores its significance for urban In…
Digital Literacy Through Digital Citizenship
The field of critical digital literacy studies has burgeoned in recent years as a result of the increased cultural consumption of digital media as well as the turn to the production of digital media forms. This article extends extant digital literacy studies by focusing on its subfield of digital citizenship. Proposing that digital citizenship is not another dimension or axis of citizenship, but a practice through which civic activities in the va…
Commerce, piety and politics
The article discusses the indiscernibility of social-media-based young Muslim women’s groups’ (YMWGs) transformative roles in socio-political analysis, standing in contrast to the groups’ visibility in Indonesian young women’s everyday lives. How does the (in)visibility of the YMWGs reconfigure the (political) subjectivity of Muslim womanhood? How should we understand the influence of this form of ‘women’s movement’ in the re-invention of Muslim …
The Muslimah Intimate Public
This article reconsiders contemporary digital activism in an increasingly pious Indonesia and responds to Eva F. Nisa’s 2018 paper on young Muslim women as daʾwa (proselytization) activists published in this journal. This paper asks: How have today’s socially mediated publics in Indonesia influenced the figure of the daʾwa activist? How are these daʾwa activists different from those in the past? I argue that the daʾwa activists are the products o…
Knowing responsibly
Despite increasing scholarship on Indonesian women, issues on girlhood, continues to be unrecognized. When they enter the frame of discussion, Indonesian girls are discussed as targets of development projects or at-risk subjects. This article asks: Why are girls studies overlooked in Indonesia? What potentials do the Indonesian girls have for the feminist scholarship and girls studies? How can we be mindful of making knowledge about Indonesian gi…
Politics of youth survival in times of crisis
This essay discusses the discursive shift in the idealized youth citizenship in Indonesia and recent instances that demonstrate the state’s ambivalent treatments of its youth as exemplified with the millennial aides and the government’s lack of support to its young labour force during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. I propose that the pandemic has further established uncertainty and insecurity as the “normal” in young people’s lives. This essa…
Are Indonesian Girls Okay? An Examination of The Discourse of Child Marriage, Victimization, and Humanitarian Visuality of Global South Girls
The discourse of child marriage in relation to the lives of the girls in Indonesia specifically and the Global South generally is often limited to describing their vulnerability and position as victims. Practices of child marriage are inseparable from its exploitative and harmful nature. This paper, however, shows that the discourse of child marriage produced in humanitarian projects and interventions often avoids the complexity and diversity of …
Out of thin air
Indonesia’s bid to be the world’s Muslim fashion capital involves a growing number of female Muslim fashion designers and business owners. With more urban Indonesian young women adopting modest clothing, increasing state support for creative and digital economy, and ease of access and distribution, the market expansion of the Muslim fashion industry allows young Muslim women to become successful entrepreneurs and good virtuous Muslims at the same…
Digital citizenship in Asia
This paper situates the theory and practice of digital citizenship in general and Asia in particular. It surveys four extant thematic clusters: (1) the democratizing potential of information and communication technologies; (2) the role of digital citizenship education; (3) the power structures of technology in shaping citizen participation, and; (4) the digital emancipation of marginalized groups and communities. It highlights a new fifth cluster…
The Mode of Reflexive Practice among Young Indonesian Creative Workers in the Time of Covid-19
This article examines reflexive practice among young creative workers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, during COVID-19. Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a series of relentless and overlapping crises across the Indonesian archipelago. In urban centres across Indonesia, the arts and creative sectors are among the key economic sectors severely afflicted by the pandemic. COVID-19 implies a lot more than the loss of income and livelihood…
The “Funny Line Veil” and the mediated political subjectivity of Muslim women in Indonesia
The growing use of the internet, especially in urban centres, has made social media the contemporary discursive battleground for Muslims to dispute their cultural and political subjectivities. Muslim womanhood, particularly, has always been a concept under constant scrutiny. Previously, narratives about the ideal Muslim women were dominated by male preachers in mosques and public seminars. Nonetheless, social media has given Muslim women a platfo…
Gender, sexuality and Islam in contemporary Indonesia
Shifting the Paradigm
In this article we examine the discourse surrounding girlhood in Indonesia through a scoping review of research and gray literature from 2013 to 2022, alongside reference to a workshop with researchers and advocates. Themes related to sexuality and reproduction are dominant in our findings. We argue that the scholarly and civic engagements with knowledge about girls and young women in Indonesia limit the modality of knowledge production and chang…
Introduction; Media and cultural commoning
In popular parlance, the “commons” is frequently evoked as if its meaning were self-evident. The term gestures toward collectiveness, shared responsibility, community resilience, solidarity, and the redistribution of resources. At a historical moment when individualism, competitive gatekeeping, entrenched hierarchies, heteropatriarchy, and late-stage capitalism continue to fail at offering liveable futures, the commons is, understandably, an attr…
Gender and Knowledge in Indonesia
This Special Issue explores how academics live, make sense of, and re-imagine knowledge work in neoliberalising Indonesia using a feminist lens. It situates this inquiry in Indonesia, where the so-called ‘knowledge economy’ – like those across Southeast Asia – emerges through uneven encounters between neoliberal reform, state developmentalism, and local moral logics of pedagogy. These intersections have reconfigured the meaning and value of acade…
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Asian Studies and History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Indonesian (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Media studies (5 works)