Sylvia Tidey
Biographic Data
| ID | 645970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvia Tidey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Tidey |
| SIGNATURE | TIDEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mortal relationality: Waria family care and the ethics of dying in Bali
Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma. Through the death of Claudia, a Balinese Hindu waria (transgender woman) living with HIV, this article examines how dying well is inseparable from the ethi…
Requiem for a Waria
This article engages recent queries in anthropology regarding where to find openings for reimagining, recreating, or rearticulating a moral and political otherwise. I suggest we can find such openings in the political potentiality of ironic experiences—intensely unnerving confrontations with the discrepancy between accepted norms and cherished ideals, of which these norms fall short. Through a person-centered account of one of Indonesia’s most we…
Keeping the Future at Bay
Coming face to face with the inevitable finitude of our existence has a way of clarifying what really matters to us. Such occasions of existential breakdown demand that we actively appropriate our lives and purposely decide how to project ourselves towards the future while drawing on the possibilities available to us. But what if these possibilities offer little for constructing a future we deem desirable? In this article I take a Heideggerian ap…
A Tale of Two Mayors: Configurations of Care and Corruption in Eastern Indonesian Direct District Head Elections
In this article, I discuss three rounds of direct district head elections that took place in Kupang, in eastern Indonesia, between 2007 and 2012. The right to vote directly for a district head formed a part of wider processes of state reformation (reformasi) aimed to promote democratization, anti-corruption, and good governance in the wake of former president Suharto's resignation from office in 1998. In spite of such reforms, corruption and clie…
Between the ethical and the right thing: How (not) to be corrupt in Indonesian bureaucracy in an age of good governance
Is it possible to be corrupt yet ethical? Or good but unethical? In one of Indonesia's most corrupt towns, the answers to these questions are far from clear for young elite civil servants, who must navigate the moral-ethical landscape of post-Suharto bureaucracy. For them, anticorruption efforts heighten uncertainty regarding what corruption is and facilitate slippage between various constructions of ethical selfhood. The uncertainty arises at th…
Corruption and Adherence to Rules in the Construction Sector: "Reading the "Bidding Books
In this article, I explore how anticorruption strategies affected a tender held in 2008 at the Department of Public Works in Kupang, eastern Indonesia, in ways both unexpected and unintended. I show how anticorruption programs get refracted at the local level and become unanchored from their original intention, leading to an obsession with adherence to the form of the anticorruption discourse that runs counter to its spirit and actually undermine…
A Divided Provincial Town: The Development from Ethnic to Class Segmentation in Kupang, West Timor
This article focuses on the physical composition of the Eastern Indonesian provincial town of Kupang, a town thought to be characterized by interethnic tensions. I examine the assumption that social segmentation is explainable in terms of ethnicity. In order to show that ethnicity not the sole explanation for social segregation, I draw on urban anthropological insights proposing an anthropology of cities-and in particular Setha M. Low's concept o…
Between the ethical and the right thing: How (not) to be corrupt in Indonesian bureaucracy in an age of good governance
Is it possible to be corrupt yet ethical? Or good but unethical? In one of Indonesia's most corrupt towns, the answers to these questions are far from clear for young elite civil servants, who must navigate the moral-ethical landscape of post-Suharto bureaucracy. For them, anticorruption efforts heighten uncertainty regarding what corruption is and facilitate slippage between various constructions of ethical selfhood. The uncertainty arises at th…
Corruption and Adherence to Rules in the Construction Sector: "Reading the "Bidding Books
In this article, I explore how anticorruption strategies affected a tender held in 2008 at the Department of Public Works in Kupang, eastern Indonesia, in ways both unexpected and unintended. I show how anticorruption programs get refracted at the local level and become unanchored from their original intention, leading to an obsession with adherence to the form of the anticorruption discourse that runs counter to its spirit and actually undermine…
A Tale of Two Mayors: Configurations of Care and Corruption in Eastern Indonesian Direct District Head Elections
In this article, I discuss three rounds of direct district head elections that took place in Kupang, in eastern Indonesia, between 2007 and 2012. The right to vote directly for a district head formed a part of wider processes of state reformation (reformasi) aimed to promote democratization, anti-corruption, and good governance in the wake of former president Suharto's resignation from office in 1998. In spite of such reforms, corruption and clie…
A Divided Provincial Town: The Development from Ethnic to Class Segmentation in Kupang, West Timor
This article focuses on the physical composition of the Eastern Indonesian provincial town of Kupang, a town thought to be characterized by interethnic tensions. I examine the assumption that social segmentation is explainable in terms of ethnicity. In order to show that ethnicity not the sole explanation for social segregation, I draw on urban anthropological insights proposing an anthropology of cities-and in particular Setha M. Low's concept o…
Keeping the Future at Bay
Coming face to face with the inevitable finitude of our existence has a way of clarifying what really matters to us. Such occasions of existential breakdown demand that we actively appropriate our lives and purposely decide how to project ourselves towards the future while drawing on the possibilities available to us. But what if these possibilities offer little for constructing a future we deem desirable? In this article I take a Heideggerian ap…
A Divided Provincial Town: The Development from Ethnic to Class Segmentation in Kupang, West Timor
This article focuses on the physical composition of the Eastern Indonesian provincial town of Kupang, a town thought to be characterized by interethnic tensions. I examine the assumption that social segmentation is explainable in terms of ethnicity. In order to show that ethnicity not the sole explanation for social segregation, I draw on urban anthropological insights proposing an anthropology of cities-and in particular Setha M. Low's concept o…
Corruption and Adherence to Rules in the Construction Sector: "Reading the "Bidding Books
In this article, I explore how anticorruption strategies affected a tender held in 2008 at the Department of Public Works in Kupang, eastern Indonesia, in ways both unexpected and unintended. I show how anticorruption programs get refracted at the local level and become unanchored from their original intention, leading to an obsession with adherence to the form of the anticorruption discourse that runs counter to its spirit and actually undermine…
Between the ethical and the right thing: How (not) to be corrupt in Indonesian bureaucracy in an age of good governance
Is it possible to be corrupt yet ethical? Or good but unethical? In one of Indonesia's most corrupt towns, the answers to these questions are far from clear for young elite civil servants, who must navigate the moral-ethical landscape of post-Suharto bureaucracy. For them, anticorruption efforts heighten uncertainty regarding what corruption is and facilitate slippage between various constructions of ethical selfhood. The uncertainty arises at th…
A Tale of Two Mayors: Configurations of Care and Corruption in Eastern Indonesian Direct District Head Elections
In this article, I discuss three rounds of direct district head elections that took place in Kupang, in eastern Indonesia, between 2007 and 2012. The right to vote directly for a district head formed a part of wider processes of state reformation (reformasi) aimed to promote democratization, anti-corruption, and good governance in the wake of former president Suharto's resignation from office in 1998. In spite of such reforms, corruption and clie…
Requiem for a Waria
This article engages recent queries in anthropology regarding where to find openings for reimagining, recreating, or rearticulating a moral and political otherwise. I suggest we can find such openings in the political potentiality of ironic experiences—intensely unnerving confrontations with the discrepancy between accepted norms and cherished ideals, of which these norms fall short. Through a person-centered account of one of Indonesia’s most we…
Keeping the Future at Bay
Coming face to face with the inevitable finitude of our existence has a way of clarifying what really matters to us. Such occasions of existential breakdown demand that we actively appropriate our lives and purposely decide how to project ourselves towards the future while drawing on the possibilities available to us. But what if these possibilities offer little for constructing a future we deem desirable? In this article I take a Heideggerian ap…
Mortal relationality: Waria family care and the ethics of dying in Bali
Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma. Through the death of Claudia, a Balinese Hindu waria (transgender woman) living with HIV, this article examines how dying well is inseparable from the ethi…
Asian Studies and History (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Language change (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)