Laine Berman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6112355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laine Berman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laine |
| FAMILY NAME | Berman |
| SIGNATURE | BERMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Asia Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Integrating Disability into Development in Eastern Indonesia
This paper looks at patterns of Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) in two rural, isolated regions of Flores, Eastern Indonesia. It examines methods adapted by local NGOs to integrate children with disabilities (CWD) into the community as it also examines the major constraints that ensure CBR as an approach is far from being realized. While the paper argues for the necessity of a stronger guideline in defining disability and a more gendered focu…
Speaking through the Silence
Surviving on the Streets of Java
This article examines narratives of personal experience from homeless street youths in urban Indonesia. Following current research on narrative and victimization, the author identifies the processes of identity production required for survival in a world of rejection, deprivation and violence. The article also demonstrates how the children's repertoire of subject positions is constructed in relation to the power structures of the streets through …
Speaking through the Silence
Uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks, Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women discursively construct identity and meaning within the rigid constraints of an hierarchical social order. She does this by identifying the silences, the unsaid, and by revealing both the structure and function of silence in terms of its indexical reference to local meaning. It is here tha…
Surviving on the Streets of Java
This article examines narratives of personal experience from homeless street youths in urban Indonesia. Following current research on narrative and victimization, the author identifies the processes of identity production required for survival in a world of rejection, deprivation and violence. The article also demonstrates how the children's repertoire of subject positions is constructed in relation to the power structures of the streets through …
Surviving on the Streets of Java
This article examines narratives of personal experience from homeless street youths in urban Indonesia. Following current research on narrative and victimization, the author identifies the processes of identity production required for survival in a world of rejection, deprivation and violence. The article also demonstrates how the children's repertoire of subject positions is constructed in relation to the power structures of the streets through …
Speaking through the Silence
Uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks, Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women discursively construct identity and meaning within the rigid constraints of an hierarchical social order. She does this by identifying the silences, the unsaid, and by revealing both the structure and function of silence in terms of its indexical reference to local meaning. It is here tha…
Speaking through the Silence
Integrating Disability into Development in Eastern Indonesia
This paper looks at patterns of Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) in two rural, isolated regions of Flores, Eastern Indonesia. It examines methods adapted by local NGOs to integrate children with disabilities (CWD) into the community as it also examines the major constraints that ensure CBR as an approach is far from being realized. While the paper argues for the necessity of a stronger guideline in defining disability and a more gendered focu…
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Asian Studies and History (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Java (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Power (physics) (2 works)