Monika Winarnita
Biographic Data
| ID | 628400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monika Winarnita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monika |
| FAMILY NAME | Winarnita |
| SIGNATURE | WINARNITA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5481-063X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social resilience within the carescapes of Asian female migrant aged care workers
Increasingly, Asian female migrants are playing a significant role in meeting Australia’s aged care workforce demand. This article analyses the lived experiences of Asian female aged care workers using the carescape concept, and a theory of agency to understand aged care access and workforce availability. It aims to identify the wider institutional and social structures that influence their agency and contribute to their social resilience as a cr…
Indonesian-Australian media during an infodemic: Fostering Trust and Social Resilience Through Translation as Care
The World Health Organisation (WHO) calls the proliferation of conflicting information during the COVID-19 pandemic an 'infodemic'. To counter the infodemic experienced by diaspora communities, ethnic and multilingual media producers filled vital health communication gaps. This article focuses on the experiences of Indonesian-Australian media producers during this infodemic in Australia. Following semi-structured interviews with 10 Indonesian-Aus…
Gender activism in Indonesia and the post-Reformasi era: Reflections from the Indonesia Forum Symposium
Decolonising Studies of Religion in So-Called Australia: Truth-Telling, Collective Reflections and Future Trajectories
Studies of religion in the lands now called (by some) Australia have thus far focused mainly on so-called Abrahamic traditions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria and on theories from the global North. This is despite the fact that Australia is a religiously and spiritually diverse nation, and that diverse worldviews in Australia have long been and continue to be shaped by First Peoples, and Sou…
Understanding the racialised and gendered experiences of Asian women working in aged care in Australia
Influencing the influencers: Regulating the morality of online conduct in Indonesia
Indonesia boasts a lively influencer scene. These influencers promote various products and messages, including political messages, to their followers for commercial gain, and have been particularly active during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Influencers in Indonesia are potentially subject to state regulation, particularly via the controversial Electronic Transactions and Information Law (ITE Law) which criminalizes digital co…
Fashioning Gender in Asia and Beyond
Walk, walk, fashion babyWork it, move that b***h crazy — Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance” There's a brand new dance but I don't know its nameThat people from bad homes do again and againIt's big and it's bland, full of tension and fearThey do it over there but we don't do it hereFashion! Turn to the leftFashion! Turn to the right — David Bowie, “Fashion” Piece by pieceMy emotions are glued togetherYou’re a new patternSent towards one another: We have a s…
Fashion, Thresholds, and Borders: Indonesia's Policewomen and the Matter of Skin and Clothes
Introduction Since at least the work of van Gennep in the early 1900s, anthropologists have recognised that borders and thresholds are crucial in understanding human behavior and culture. But particularly in the past few decades, the study of borders has moved from the margins of social inquiry to the centre. At the same time, fashion (Entwistle), including clothing and skin (Bille), have emerged as crucial to understanding the human condition. I…
Affect, Creativity and Migrant Belonging
Affect and creativity are proposed as offering an important lens for examining the politics of belonging in the everyday lives of migrants and refugees. Mobile emotions are circulated, intensified, and transformed in creative ways through digital media, demanding attention to new opportunities for challenging hierarchies, creating belonging, transforming gendered structures, and reinforcing the foundations of inequality and exclusion
Gendered Digital Citizenship: How Indonesian Female Journalists Participate in Gender Activism
Per-capita, Indonesia has one of the world’s largest user bases of social media. However, in terms of online participation, Indonesian women lag behind their male counterparts (Suwana [2017]. “Empowering Indonesian Women Through Building Digital Media Literacy.” Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences 38 (3): 212–217). This article contributes to a greater understanding of how digital media and engagement enables Indonesian women (as digital citizen…
Narratives of exile twenty years on: Long-term impacts of Indonesia’s 1998 violence on transnational Chinese-Indonesian women
In response to Indonesia’s 1998 riots, which included mass rape of Chinese-Indonesian women, many Chinese-Indonesian families sent their daughters out of country to try and ensure their safety. Drawing on interviews with Chinese-Indonesian women currently living in Singapore and Australia, this article considers the long-term effects on transnational families of this departure. In contrast to current views of Chinese-Indonesians as an affluent di…
Mixed-Race Habits: Articulations of Female Asian-Australian Artists
Multicultural societies such as Australia are becoming more diverse, and understandings of mixed race descent experiences are urgently needed. In this paper, we contribute to such understandings by examining how mixed-race Asian-Australian women navigate the complexities of race through their cultural expressions and embodied experiences. Our discussion draws on ethnographic research, interviews and social media analysis conducted with Indonesian…
Like Being Shot in the Face” or “I’m Glad I’m Out”: Journalists’ Experiences of Job Loss in the Australian Media Industry 2012–2014
The Australian news media industry has recently experienced a dramatic contraction, resulting in the loss of an estimated 3000 journalism positions since 2011. But what does the process of being laid off (more commonly understood as “redundancy” in Australia) actually mean for those affected? Drawing on a survey of more than 200 journalists who left what were mostly long-term jobs in large newsrooms between 2012 and 2014, this paper examines how …
Don't call me ibu: Challenges of belonging for childless transnational Indonesian women
New forms of transnational families are being created by the feminization of migration, particularly of mobile Southeast Asian female workers who take on the financial responsibility of supporting their nieces and nephews who remain in the home country. This understudied kin relationship provides important insights into the complexities of transnational belonging among childless women. Fieldwork conducted in 2015 with Indonesian professional migr…
Presumptions of promiscuity: Reflections on being a widow or divorcee from three Indonesian communities
This article is concerned with a pervasive gender stereotype within Indonesian society, that of janda, meaning both widows and divorcees. The term janda is no neutral signifier of marital status, but rather carries a bundle of pejorative meanings concerned with status and presumed sexual availability to men. It is bound up within assumptions about the normality of heterosexual marriage in Indonesia, and in many ways janda is the antithesis of the…
Seeking the State: Appropriating Bureaucratic Symbolism and Wealth in the Margins of Southeast Asia
Anthropological research on Southeast Asian states has contributed to understanding how local communities engage with states in their everyday lives. Two approaches drawing out the complexities of state‐society entanglement stand out. First is Foucault's idea that states possess the art‐of‐government. Through techniques such as mapping, census data, biometrics and so on, states are believed to achieve new levels of control over people, who are th…
The Cosmopolitan Performers: Chinese–Indonesian Migrants in Perth, Australia
This paper will discuss the socio-cultural process of performance in relation to the cosmopolitan identity and imaginings of Chinese-Indonesian migrants in Perth, Western Australia. Representing the largest visible group of Indonesian migrants in Australia, the Chinese ‘descendants’ (keturunan) perform as Indonesian traditional dancers on the Australian multicultural stage, to "celebrate the institutions of the state(s) in which [they] live" (App…
The Not-so-gentle Makassarese Fan Dance: Misperformance Challenging Indonesian-Australian Transnational Femininity
In the hands of a group of Indonesian female dancers in Perth, Western Australia, a gentle sea breeze or Angin Maimiri was recreated through the use of swaying fans. The Indonesian women's own newly choreographed dance or tari kreasi is based on the Makassarese traditional song of the same name from South Sulawesi. The women had intended to perform the dance in a ‘feminine’ manner with soft graceful movements. Yet, as illustrated in the ethnograp…
Dialogue and Other 'Men's Business: Gender, Conflict and Multicultural Politics in the Diaspora
While the under-representation of women intergroup dialogue initiatives has been widely noted, there remains to date a lack of research investigating the possible reasons for this and its potential implications for dialogue practice. In this article, we explore a dialogue project held from 2009 to 2013 in Melbourne, which sought to bring into contact diaspora communities from situations of conflict in the homeland. Our project saw a similar lack …
The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity: Indonesian Migrant Women and Cultural Representation in Perth, Australia
This article provides a novel analysis of how a marginalised Indonesian marriage migrant dance group, in Perth Australia, engage with an Indonesian transnational discourse of ‘authentic’ cultural performance. The story of this Indonesian amateur housewife dance group and their performance of a generic Indonesian boat dance that became a Madurese fisherman folk dance, shows how they can express both political and poetic forms of of authenticity. T…
Introduction to the Special Section on State, Society and Religion in the Asia–Pacific region (Part B)
State, society and religion in the Asia–Pacific region (part A)
The nature of relations between state, society and religion has long been contested, but never more so than in the current period of the apparent ‘resurgence’ of religion and the corresponding ‘ret
Caring and Family: Marriage Migration to the Malay Muslim community of Home Island (Cocos Keeling Islands)
This article explores marriage migration within a 'Malay' ethnic group - the Cocos Malay population on Home Island of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Marriage is considered important because it produces legitimate children and gives achieved status. Marriage migrants and their Home Island spouses portray their betrothal as jodoh - a good match made by the extended family. Marriage is also associated with the role of family, as couples often live wit…
Motherhood as Cultural Citizenship: Indonesian Women in Transnational Families
This paper argues that motherhood as cultural citizenship is a useful concept in understanding citizenship issues for Indonesian women in transnational families, their experiences and subject positioning. Furthermore, in the face of discourses valuing Indonesian women's role foremost as mother and wife, narrating citizenship as motherhood can become central to legitimising a social performance of national identity. Four narratives of Indonesian w…
Like Being Shot in the Face” or “I’m Glad I’m Out”: Journalists’ Experiences of Job Loss in the Australian Media Industry 2012–2014
The Australian news media industry has recently experienced a dramatic contraction, resulting in the loss of an estimated 3000 journalism positions since 2011. But what does the process of being laid off (more commonly understood as “redundancy” in Australia) actually mean for those affected? Drawing on a survey of more than 200 journalists who left what were mostly long-term jobs in large newsrooms between 2012 and 2014, this paper examines how …
Affect, Creativity and Migrant Belonging
Affect and creativity are proposed as offering an important lens for examining the politics of belonging in the everyday lives of migrants and refugees. Mobile emotions are circulated, intensified, and transformed in creative ways through digital media, demanding attention to new opportunities for challenging hierarchies, creating belonging, transforming gendered structures, and reinforcing the foundations of inequality and exclusion
Motherhood as Cultural Citizenship: Indonesian Women in Transnational Families
This paper argues that motherhood as cultural citizenship is a useful concept in understanding citizenship issues for Indonesian women in transnational families, their experiences and subject positioning. Furthermore, in the face of discourses valuing Indonesian women's role foremost as mother and wife, narrating citizenship as motherhood can become central to legitimising a social performance of national identity. Four narratives of Indonesian w…
Decolonising Studies of Religion in So-Called Australia: Truth-Telling, Collective Reflections and Future Trajectories
Studies of religion in the lands now called (by some) Australia have thus far focused mainly on so-called Abrahamic traditions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria and on theories from the global North. This is despite the fact that Australia is a religiously and spiritually diverse nation, and that diverse worldviews in Australia have long been and continue to be shaped by First Peoples, and Sou…
Gendered Digital Citizenship: How Indonesian Female Journalists Participate in Gender Activism
Per-capita, Indonesia has one of the world’s largest user bases of social media. However, in terms of online participation, Indonesian women lag behind their male counterparts (Suwana [2017]. “Empowering Indonesian Women Through Building Digital Media Literacy.” Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences 38 (3): 212–217). This article contributes to a greater understanding of how digital media and engagement enables Indonesian women (as digital citizen…
Narratives of exile twenty years on: Long-term impacts of Indonesia’s 1998 violence on transnational Chinese-Indonesian women
In response to Indonesia’s 1998 riots, which included mass rape of Chinese-Indonesian women, many Chinese-Indonesian families sent their daughters out of country to try and ensure their safety. Drawing on interviews with Chinese-Indonesian women currently living in Singapore and Australia, this article considers the long-term effects on transnational families of this departure. In contrast to current views of Chinese-Indonesians as an affluent di…
Mixed-Race Habits: Articulations of Female Asian-Australian Artists
Multicultural societies such as Australia are becoming more diverse, and understandings of mixed race descent experiences are urgently needed. In this paper, we contribute to such understandings by examining how mixed-race Asian-Australian women navigate the complexities of race through their cultural expressions and embodied experiences. Our discussion draws on ethnographic research, interviews and social media analysis conducted with Indonesian…
The Cosmopolitan Performers: Chinese–Indonesian Migrants in Perth, Australia
This paper will discuss the socio-cultural process of performance in relation to the cosmopolitan identity and imaginings of Chinese-Indonesian migrants in Perth, Western Australia. Representing the largest visible group of Indonesian migrants in Australia, the Chinese ‘descendants’ (keturunan) perform as Indonesian traditional dancers on the Australian multicultural stage, to "celebrate the institutions of the state(s) in which [they] live" (App…
Dialogue and Other 'Men's Business: Gender, Conflict and Multicultural Politics in the Diaspora
While the under-representation of women intergroup dialogue initiatives has been widely noted, there remains to date a lack of research investigating the possible reasons for this and its potential implications for dialogue practice. In this article, we explore a dialogue project held from 2009 to 2013 in Melbourne, which sought to bring into contact diaspora communities from situations of conflict in the homeland. Our project saw a similar lack …
The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity: Indonesian Migrant Women and Cultural Representation in Perth, Australia
This article provides a novel analysis of how a marginalised Indonesian marriage migrant dance group, in Perth Australia, engage with an Indonesian transnational discourse of ‘authentic’ cultural performance. The story of this Indonesian amateur housewife dance group and their performance of a generic Indonesian boat dance that became a Madurese fisherman folk dance, shows how they can express both political and poetic forms of of authenticity. T…
State, society and religion in the Asia–Pacific region (part A)
The nature of relations between state, society and religion has long been contested, but never more so than in the current period of the apparent ‘resurgence’ of religion and the corresponding ‘ret
Motherhood as Cultural Citizenship: Indonesian Women in Transnational Families
This paper argues that motherhood as cultural citizenship is a useful concept in understanding citizenship issues for Indonesian women in transnational families, their experiences and subject positioning. Furthermore, in the face of discourses valuing Indonesian women's role foremost as mother and wife, narrating citizenship as motherhood can become central to legitimising a social performance of national identity. Four narratives of Indonesian w…
Caring and Family: Marriage Migration to the Malay Muslim community of Home Island (Cocos Keeling Islands)
This article explores marriage migration within a 'Malay' ethnic group - the Cocos Malay population on Home Island of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Marriage is considered important because it produces legitimate children and gives achieved status. Marriage migrants and their Home Island spouses portray their betrothal as jodoh - a good match made by the extended family. Marriage is also associated with the role of family, as couples often live wit…
Introduction to the Special Section on State, Society and Religion in the Asia–Pacific region (Part B)
State, society and religion in the Asia–Pacific region (part A)
The nature of relations between state, society and religion has long been contested, but never more so than in the current period of the apparent ‘resurgence’ of religion and the corresponding ‘ret
Dialogue and Other 'Men's Business: Gender, Conflict and Multicultural Politics in the Diaspora
While the under-representation of women intergroup dialogue initiatives has been widely noted, there remains to date a lack of research investigating the possible reasons for this and its potential implications for dialogue practice. In this article, we explore a dialogue project held from 2009 to 2013 in Melbourne, which sought to bring into contact diaspora communities from situations of conflict in the homeland. Our project saw a similar lack …
The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity: Indonesian Migrant Women and Cultural Representation in Perth, Australia
This article provides a novel analysis of how a marginalised Indonesian marriage migrant dance group, in Perth Australia, engage with an Indonesian transnational discourse of ‘authentic’ cultural performance. The story of this Indonesian amateur housewife dance group and their performance of a generic Indonesian boat dance that became a Madurese fisherman folk dance, shows how they can express both political and poetic forms of of authenticity. T…
Presumptions of promiscuity: Reflections on being a widow or divorcee from three Indonesian communities
This article is concerned with a pervasive gender stereotype within Indonesian society, that of janda, meaning both widows and divorcees. The term janda is no neutral signifier of marital status, but rather carries a bundle of pejorative meanings concerned with status and presumed sexual availability to men. It is bound up within assumptions about the normality of heterosexual marriage in Indonesia, and in many ways janda is the antithesis of the…
Seeking the State: Appropriating Bureaucratic Symbolism and Wealth in the Margins of Southeast Asia
Anthropological research on Southeast Asian states has contributed to understanding how local communities engage with states in their everyday lives. Two approaches drawing out the complexities of state‐society entanglement stand out. First is Foucault's idea that states possess the art‐of‐government. Through techniques such as mapping, census data, biometrics and so on, states are believed to achieve new levels of control over people, who are th…
The Cosmopolitan Performers: Chinese–Indonesian Migrants in Perth, Australia
This paper will discuss the socio-cultural process of performance in relation to the cosmopolitan identity and imaginings of Chinese-Indonesian migrants in Perth, Western Australia. Representing the largest visible group of Indonesian migrants in Australia, the Chinese ‘descendants’ (keturunan) perform as Indonesian traditional dancers on the Australian multicultural stage, to "celebrate the institutions of the state(s) in which [they] live" (App…
The Not-so-gentle Makassarese Fan Dance: Misperformance Challenging Indonesian-Australian Transnational Femininity
In the hands of a group of Indonesian female dancers in Perth, Western Australia, a gentle sea breeze or Angin Maimiri was recreated through the use of swaying fans. The Indonesian women's own newly choreographed dance or tari kreasi is based on the Makassarese traditional song of the same name from South Sulawesi. The women had intended to perform the dance in a ‘feminine’ manner with soft graceful movements. Yet, as illustrated in the ethnograp…
Don't call me ibu: Challenges of belonging for childless transnational Indonesian women
New forms of transnational families are being created by the feminization of migration, particularly of mobile Southeast Asian female workers who take on the financial responsibility of supporting their nieces and nephews who remain in the home country. This understudied kin relationship provides important insights into the complexities of transnational belonging among childless women. Fieldwork conducted in 2015 with Indonesian professional migr…
Like Being Shot in the Face” or “I’m Glad I’m Out”: Journalists’ Experiences of Job Loss in the Australian Media Industry 2012–2014
The Australian news media industry has recently experienced a dramatic contraction, resulting in the loss of an estimated 3000 journalism positions since 2011. But what does the process of being laid off (more commonly understood as “redundancy” in Australia) actually mean for those affected? Drawing on a survey of more than 200 journalists who left what were mostly long-term jobs in large newsrooms between 2012 and 2014, this paper examines how …
Gendered Digital Citizenship: How Indonesian Female Journalists Participate in Gender Activism
Per-capita, Indonesia has one of the world’s largest user bases of social media. However, in terms of online participation, Indonesian women lag behind their male counterparts (Suwana [2017]. “Empowering Indonesian Women Through Building Digital Media Literacy.” Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences 38 (3): 212–217). This article contributes to a greater understanding of how digital media and engagement enables Indonesian women (as digital citizen…
Narratives of exile twenty years on: Long-term impacts of Indonesia’s 1998 violence on transnational Chinese-Indonesian women
In response to Indonesia’s 1998 riots, which included mass rape of Chinese-Indonesian women, many Chinese-Indonesian families sent their daughters out of country to try and ensure their safety. Drawing on interviews with Chinese-Indonesian women currently living in Singapore and Australia, this article considers the long-term effects on transnational families of this departure. In contrast to current views of Chinese-Indonesians as an affluent di…
Mixed-Race Habits: Articulations of Female Asian-Australian Artists
Multicultural societies such as Australia are becoming more diverse, and understandings of mixed race descent experiences are urgently needed. In this paper, we contribute to such understandings by examining how mixed-race Asian-Australian women navigate the complexities of race through their cultural expressions and embodied experiences. Our discussion draws on ethnographic research, interviews and social media analysis conducted with Indonesian…
Influencing the influencers: Regulating the morality of online conduct in Indonesia
Indonesia boasts a lively influencer scene. These influencers promote various products and messages, including political messages, to their followers for commercial gain, and have been particularly active during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Influencers in Indonesia are potentially subject to state regulation, particularly via the controversial Electronic Transactions and Information Law (ITE Law) which criminalizes digital co…
Fashioning Gender in Asia and Beyond
Walk, walk, fashion babyWork it, move that b***h crazy — Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance” There's a brand new dance but I don't know its nameThat people from bad homes do again and againIt's big and it's bland, full of tension and fearThey do it over there but we don't do it hereFashion! Turn to the leftFashion! Turn to the right — David Bowie, “Fashion” Piece by pieceMy emotions are glued togetherYou’re a new patternSent towards one another: We have a s…
Fashion, Thresholds, and Borders: Indonesia's Policewomen and the Matter of Skin and Clothes
Introduction Since at least the work of van Gennep in the early 1900s, anthropologists have recognised that borders and thresholds are crucial in understanding human behavior and culture. But particularly in the past few decades, the study of borders has moved from the margins of social inquiry to the centre. At the same time, fashion (Entwistle), including clothing and skin (Bille), have emerged as crucial to understanding the human condition. I…
Affect, Creativity and Migrant Belonging
Affect and creativity are proposed as offering an important lens for examining the politics of belonging in the everyday lives of migrants and refugees. Mobile emotions are circulated, intensified, and transformed in creative ways through digital media, demanding attention to new opportunities for challenging hierarchies, creating belonging, transforming gendered structures, and reinforcing the foundations of inequality and exclusion
Understanding the racialised and gendered experiences of Asian women working in aged care in Australia
Gender activism in Indonesia and the post-Reformasi era: Reflections from the Indonesia Forum Symposium
Decolonising Studies of Religion in So-Called Australia: Truth-Telling, Collective Reflections and Future Trajectories
Studies of religion in the lands now called (by some) Australia have thus far focused mainly on so-called Abrahamic traditions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria and on theories from the global North. This is despite the fact that Australia is a religiously and spiritually diverse nation, and that diverse worldviews in Australia have long been and continue to be shaped by First Peoples, and Sou…
Social resilience within the carescapes of Asian female migrant aged care workers
Increasingly, Asian female migrants are playing a significant role in meeting Australia’s aged care workforce demand. This article analyses the lived experiences of Asian female aged care workers using the carescape concept, and a theory of agency to understand aged care access and workforce availability. It aims to identify the wider institutional and social structures that influence their agency and contribute to their social resilience as a cr…
Indonesian-Australian media during an infodemic: Fostering Trust and Social Resilience Through Translation as Care
The World Health Organisation (WHO) calls the proliferation of conflicting information during the COVID-19 pandemic an 'infodemic'. To counter the infodemic experienced by diaspora communities, ethnic and multilingual media producers filled vital health communication gaps. This article focuses on the experiences of Indonesian-Australian media producers during this infodemic in Australia. Following semi-structured interviews with 10 Indonesian-Aus…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Indonesian (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Asian Studies and History (7 works) · History (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works)