Inaya Rakhmani
Biographic Data
| ID | 728910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Inaya Rakhmani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Inaya |
| FAMILY NAME | Rakhmani |
| SIGNATURE | RAKHMANI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Indonesia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4058-1172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Competing climate imaginaries: The cultural political economy of climate change in Indonesia
This article employs the framework of ‘climate imaginaries’ to analyze the competing visions shaping Indonesia’s response to the climate crisis. Building on and extending the established typology of climate imaginaries, we introduce a sixth imaginary: the indigenous imaginary grounded in the customary knowledge (adat) and relational cosmologies of masyarakat adat. Through Cultural Political Economy, we map how the dominant techno-market and anthr…
The “commoning“ of critical labour knowledge in Indonesia; Digital mediation and its contradictions Authors
This article explores “the commoning of critical labour knowledge“ – the co-sharing of resources to produce, circulate, and practice forms of knowledge generated with, by, and for workers, in opposition to dominant managerial and/or state technocratic frameworks – including through the use of digital media. Drawing on an auto-ethnographic reflection of a collaborative praxis between a university-based research centre and a labour knowledge hub, b…
Digital Sambatan and the Neoliberal Governance of Community Self-Organisation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
This article discusses the localised provision of basic services (health, education, livelihood support) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, by taking the case of SONJO, a digital mutual aid community in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Through a Foucauldian governmentality analytical lens, we argue that SONJO showcases contradictory ways in which a locally and digitally self-governed community supports citizens’ welfare and well-being during a cris…
The Micropolitics of Care in Indonesia’s Neoliberal Universities
Scholars of numerous theoretical traditions have criticised the effects of neoliberal reorganisation of universities worldwide, including the impacts of its performative culture on academia. Feminist scholars have critiqued the increasingly neoliberalised universities as careless institutions where care practices, which can be located in the teaching–learning nexus, are too often overlooked. This article explores the micropolitics of care in Indo…
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…
Various visions of the industrialized future: Anxiety, aspiration, and Chinese nickel investment in Indonesia
Mediatized eco-religious movements in Indonesia: Negotiating religiosity and environmentalism in digital Islam
Cultural Political Economy of Identity Politics in Indonesia: The Case of the 2019 Presidential Elections
Reflecting on the changing use of social media in political campaigns: Lessons from Indonesia’s 2024 election
What’s the matter: The meaning of halal culture for Indonesian Muslims
In modern history, the availability and affordability of a range of commodities that cater to the specific needs of consumers have permeated globally. While most brands that dominate global markets remain ‘Western’, their spread and adoption in Asia have been met with various specific cultural responses. Such is the case with Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country and the largest economy in Southeast Asia. There has been rising halal consumerism in…
Maintaining Life Under Neoliberal Capitalism: A Case Study of Muslimah Laborers in Solo Raya, Indonesia
In the context of Muslim-majority Indonesia, we see the strengthening of Islamic piety as a response to the reorganization of people’s daily lives under neoliberal imperatives. Our study investigates how the often-overlooked Muslimah laborers in the historical locality of Solo Raya navigate their public and domestic spaces to fulfil distinctive gendered roles. They resort to organized labor movements to fight for workers’ rights and realize the i…
Understanding the floating ummah in neoliberal Indonesia
In recent decades, politicians – particularly of the conservative kind – have been influential in binding together political support based on identity. Taking the case of the most populous Muslim country in the world and the largest democracy in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, this study analyses how Islamic identity has been instrumental during moments of political consolidation. It focuses on the way the political campaign industry uses social media…
Inequalities and social sciences in neoliberal Indonesia
Rising wealth and social inequalities around the world place great pressure on social researchers to interpret and explain the impact. However, it is equally important to recognise that scientists too have been part of the reproduction of social inequalities. This article expands on Burawoy's (2015) appeal to social scientists to acknowledge that social inequalities are not only external to the social science community specifically - and the scie…
The Cultural Political Economy of Knowledge in Neo-Liberal Indonesia
This article analyses the policy agendas and bureaucratic apparatuses that have shaped the norms and values directing knowledge production in neo-liberal Indonesia. It uses a Gramscian approach to hegemony to understand how knowledge, as power, is organised and imposed on workers. It unpacks the norms and values shaped during processes of neo-liberal capitalist reform, which are identified as knowledge imaginaries; or shared social systems that o…
The Social Sciences in a Time of Crisis: Indonesia s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Role of the Social Sciences in Covid-19 Responses in Southeast Asia: An Introduction
Indonesian female academics and the pandemic: The challenges of Covid-19 and academic work
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to higher education. This paper explores the challenges Indonesian female academics encountered during the pandemic in which the boundaries between home and work were further blurred. Accordingly, the gender gap was further widened as unpaid and unacknowledged academic and domestic work disproportionately affected women. This paper draws on data gathered from survey, diary studies and in-dept…
Cleavages and Electoral Support to Islamist Party in Javan Urban Areas: The Case of Prosperous Justice Party
Several studies have noted that electoral support for one of the Islamist parties in Indonesia, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), is mostly concentrated in urban areas. While I agree with this observation, I found that these studies did not pay adequate attention to the diversity of socio-political conditions in urban areas that contributed to the varying electoral support for PKS. One of these socio-political conditions is what Lipset and Rokk…
Authoritarian Populism in Indonesia: The Role of the Political Campaign Industry in Engineering Consent and Coercion
All around the globe, populism has become increasingly prominent in democratic societies in the developed and developing world. Scholars have attributed this rise at a response to the systematic reproduction of social inequalities entwined with processes of neoliberal globalisation, within which all countries are inextricably and dynamically linked. However, to theorise populism properly, we must look at its manifestations in countries other than…
Reproducing Academic Insularity in a Time of Neo-liberal Markets: The Case of Social Science Research in Indonesian State Universities
This article reflects on neo-liberal reform of Indonesia's state universities, using Michael Burawoy's approach to the division of sociological labour in particular and social science in general. It examines the relationship between neo-liberal market imperatives and authoritarian bureaucratic legacies that not only curtail the development of theoretically engaged and socially relevant scholarship but also shape knowledge production through the m…
The influence of elite interests are crucial to understanding Indonesia’s response to Covid-19
Covid-19, women and digitised food networks in Jakarta: Inequality and resilience
The Personal is Political: Gendered Morality in Indonesia's Halal Consumerism
Recent scholarship on the shift to the right in Asian democracies has predominantly been focused on political organisations, leaving social movements outside of them largely understudied. This article brings forth the link between the rise of right-wing politics in Indonesia—often associated with Islamic populist narratives—and the role of the market. It studies the way halal consumerism has helped shape the narrative of the ummah, an idea that w…
Media and Communications
Developments in digital technologies over the last 30 years have expanded massively human beings' capacity to communicate across time and space (Section 13.1).Media infrastructures have simultaneously acquired huge complexity.By "media" we mean technologies for the production, dissemination, and reception of communication, but also the contents distributed through those technologies and the institutions associated with their production, dissemina…
Media, communication and the struggle for social progress
This article discusses the role of media and communications in contributing to social progress, as elaborated in a landmark international project – the International Panel on Social Progress. First, it analyses how media and digital platforms have contributed to global inequality by examining media access and infrastructure across world regions. Second, it looks at media governance and the different mechanisms of corporatized control over media p…
Reproducing Academic Insularity in a Time of Neo-liberal Markets: The Case of Social Science Research in Indonesian State Universities
This article reflects on neo-liberal reform of Indonesia's state universities, using Michael Burawoy's approach to the division of sociological labour in particular and social science in general. It examines the relationship between neo-liberal market imperatives and authoritarian bureaucratic legacies that not only curtail the development of theoretically engaged and socially relevant scholarship but also shape knowledge production through the m…
The Cultural Political Economy of Knowledge in Neo-Liberal Indonesia
This article analyses the policy agendas and bureaucratic apparatuses that have shaped the norms and values directing knowledge production in neo-liberal Indonesia. It uses a Gramscian approach to hegemony to understand how knowledge, as power, is organised and imposed on workers. It unpacks the norms and values shaped during processes of neo-liberal capitalist reform, which are identified as knowledge imaginaries; or shared social systems that o…
Indonesian female academics and the pandemic: The challenges of Covid-19 and academic work
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to higher education. This paper explores the challenges Indonesian female academics encountered during the pandemic in which the boundaries between home and work were further blurred. Accordingly, the gender gap was further widened as unpaid and unacknowledged academic and domestic work disproportionately affected women. This paper draws on data gathered from survey, diary studies and in-dept…
Authoritarian Populism in Indonesia: The Role of the Political Campaign Industry in Engineering Consent and Coercion
All around the globe, populism has become increasingly prominent in democratic societies in the developed and developing world. Scholars have attributed this rise at a response to the systematic reproduction of social inequalities entwined with processes of neoliberal globalisation, within which all countries are inextricably and dynamically linked. However, to theorise populism properly, we must look at its manifestations in countries other than…
Media, communication and the struggle for social progress
This article discusses the role of media and communications in contributing to social progress, as elaborated in a landmark international project – the International Panel on Social Progress. First, it analyses how media and digital platforms have contributed to global inequality by examining media access and infrastructure across world regions. Second, it looks at media governance and the different mechanisms of corporatized control over media p…
The Micropolitics of Care in Indonesia’s Neoliberal Universities
Scholars of numerous theoretical traditions have criticised the effects of neoliberal reorganisation of universities worldwide, including the impacts of its performative culture on academia. Feminist scholars have critiqued the increasingly neoliberalised universities as careless institutions where care practices, which can be located in the teaching–learning nexus, are too often overlooked. This article explores the micropolitics of care in Indo…
Inequalities and social sciences in neoliberal Indonesia
Rising wealth and social inequalities around the world place great pressure on social researchers to interpret and explain the impact. However, it is equally important to recognise that scientists too have been part of the reproduction of social inequalities. This article expands on Burawoy's (2015) appeal to social scientists to acknowledge that social inequalities are not only external to the social science community specifically - and the scie…
The Personal is Political: Gendered Morality in Indonesia's Halal Consumerism
Recent scholarship on the shift to the right in Asian democracies has predominantly been focused on political organisations, leaving social movements outside of them largely understudied. This article brings forth the link between the rise of right-wing politics in Indonesia—often associated with Islamic populist narratives—and the role of the market. It studies the way halal consumerism has helped shape the narrative of the ummah, an idea that w…
The commercialization of da'wah: Understanding Indonesian Sinetron and their portrayal of Islam
The impact of media industrialization on mediated religious expression all over the world has been substantial, and this study tries to understand the Indonesian case by looking at the intersections between commerce and Islamic expression. Focusing on Indonesian Islamic sinetron (soap operas), we shall see that contrasting ideological motivations among producers have resulted in particular narratives within their content. Despite these peculiarit…
Mainstream Islam
This article explores the modes of consolidation between the dynamic practices of commercial television and the rising Islamic manifestation among urban, middle-class Indonesians. Focusing on the most-consumed type of television programming in the country, the sinetron (television drama), it describes media-economic factors that have led to the multiplication of Islamic symbols in television. An image of Islam that is unobjectionable to both the …
Understanding the floating ummah in neoliberal Indonesia
In recent decades, politicians – particularly of the conservative kind – have been influential in binding together political support based on identity. Taking the case of the most populous Muslim country in the world and the largest democracy in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, this study analyses how Islamic identity has been instrumental during moments of political consolidation. It focuses on the way the political campaign industry uses social media…
Kontinuitas Islam Komersial
The commercialization of da'wah: Understanding Indonesian Sinetron and their portrayal of Islam
The impact of media industrialization on mediated religious expression all over the world has been substantial, and this study tries to understand the Indonesian case by looking at the intersections between commerce and Islamic expression. Focusing on Indonesian Islamic sinetron (soap operas), we shall see that contrasting ideological motivations among producers have resulted in particular narratives within their content. Despite these peculiarit…
Mainstream Islam
This article explores the modes of consolidation between the dynamic practices of commercial television and the rising Islamic manifestation among urban, middle-class Indonesians. Focusing on the most-consumed type of television programming in the country, the sinetron (television drama), it describes media-economic factors that have led to the multiplication of Islamic symbols in television. An image of Islam that is unobjectionable to both the …
Mainstreaming Islam in Indonesia: Television, Identity, and the Middle Class
This cutting edge book considers the question of Islam and commercialisation in Indonesia, a majority Muslim, non-Arab country. Revealing the cultural heterogeneity behind rising Islamism in a democra
Media and Communications
Developments in digital technologies over the last 30 years have expanded massively human beings' capacity to communicate across time and space (Section 13.1).Media infrastructures have simultaneously acquired huge complexity.By "media" we mean technologies for the production, dissemination, and reception of communication, but also the contents distributed through those technologies and the institutions associated with their production, dissemina…
Media, communication and the struggle for social progress
This article discusses the role of media and communications in contributing to social progress, as elaborated in a landmark international project – the International Panel on Social Progress. First, it analyses how media and digital platforms have contributed to global inequality by examining media access and infrastructure across world regions. Second, it looks at media governance and the different mechanisms of corporatized control over media p…
The Personal is Political: Gendered Morality in Indonesia's Halal Consumerism
Recent scholarship on the shift to the right in Asian democracies has predominantly been focused on political organisations, leaving social movements outside of them largely understudied. This article brings forth the link between the rise of right-wing politics in Indonesia—often associated with Islamic populist narratives—and the role of the market. It studies the way halal consumerism has helped shape the narrative of the ummah, an idea that w…
The influence of elite interests are crucial to understanding Indonesia’s response to Covid-19
Covid-19, women and digitised food networks in Jakarta: Inequality and resilience
Cleavages and Electoral Support to Islamist Party in Javan Urban Areas: The Case of Prosperous Justice Party
Several studies have noted that electoral support for one of the Islamist parties in Indonesia, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), is mostly concentrated in urban areas. While I agree with this observation, I found that these studies did not pay adequate attention to the diversity of socio-political conditions in urban areas that contributed to the varying electoral support for PKS. One of these socio-political conditions is what Lipset and Rokk…
Authoritarian Populism in Indonesia: The Role of the Political Campaign Industry in Engineering Consent and Coercion
All around the globe, populism has become increasingly prominent in democratic societies in the developed and developing world. Scholars have attributed this rise at a response to the systematic reproduction of social inequalities entwined with processes of neoliberal globalisation, within which all countries are inextricably and dynamically linked. However, to theorise populism properly, we must look at its manifestations in countries other than…
Reproducing Academic Insularity in a Time of Neo-liberal Markets: The Case of Social Science Research in Indonesian State Universities
This article reflects on neo-liberal reform of Indonesia's state universities, using Michael Burawoy's approach to the division of sociological labour in particular and social science in general. It examines the relationship between neo-liberal market imperatives and authoritarian bureaucratic legacies that not only curtail the development of theoretically engaged and socially relevant scholarship but also shape knowledge production through the m…
The Social Sciences in a Time of Crisis: Indonesia s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Role of the Social Sciences in Covid-19 Responses in Southeast Asia: An Introduction
Indonesian female academics and the pandemic: The challenges of Covid-19 and academic work
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to higher education. This paper explores the challenges Indonesian female academics encountered during the pandemic in which the boundaries between home and work were further blurred. Accordingly, the gender gap was further widened as unpaid and unacknowledged academic and domestic work disproportionately affected women. This paper draws on data gathered from survey, diary studies and in-dept…
Reflecting on the changing use of social media in political campaigns: Lessons from Indonesia’s 2024 election
What’s the matter: The meaning of halal culture for Indonesian Muslims
In modern history, the availability and affordability of a range of commodities that cater to the specific needs of consumers have permeated globally. While most brands that dominate global markets remain ‘Western’, their spread and adoption in Asia have been met with various specific cultural responses. Such is the case with Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country and the largest economy in Southeast Asia. There has been rising halal consumerism in…
Maintaining Life Under Neoliberal Capitalism: A Case Study of Muslimah Laborers in Solo Raya, Indonesia
In the context of Muslim-majority Indonesia, we see the strengthening of Islamic piety as a response to the reorganization of people’s daily lives under neoliberal imperatives. Our study investigates how the often-overlooked Muslimah laborers in the historical locality of Solo Raya navigate their public and domestic spaces to fulfil distinctive gendered roles. They resort to organized labor movements to fight for workers’ rights and realize the i…
Understanding the floating ummah in neoliberal Indonesia
In recent decades, politicians – particularly of the conservative kind – have been influential in binding together political support based on identity. Taking the case of the most populous Muslim country in the world and the largest democracy in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, this study analyses how Islamic identity has been instrumental during moments of political consolidation. It focuses on the way the political campaign industry uses social media…
Inequalities and social sciences in neoliberal Indonesia
Rising wealth and social inequalities around the world place great pressure on social researchers to interpret and explain the impact. However, it is equally important to recognise that scientists too have been part of the reproduction of social inequalities. This article expands on Burawoy's (2015) appeal to social scientists to acknowledge that social inequalities are not only external to the social science community specifically - and the scie…
The Cultural Political Economy of Knowledge in Neo-Liberal Indonesia
This article analyses the policy agendas and bureaucratic apparatuses that have shaped the norms and values directing knowledge production in neo-liberal Indonesia. It uses a Gramscian approach to hegemony to understand how knowledge, as power, is organised and imposed on workers. It unpacks the norms and values shaped during processes of neo-liberal capitalist reform, which are identified as knowledge imaginaries; or shared social systems that o…
Various visions of the industrialized future: Anxiety, aspiration, and Chinese nickel investment in Indonesia
Mediatized eco-religious movements in Indonesia: Negotiating religiosity and environmentalism in digital Islam
Cultural Political Economy of Identity Politics in Indonesia: The Case of the 2019 Presidential Elections
Competing climate imaginaries: The cultural political economy of climate change in Indonesia
This article employs the framework of ‘climate imaginaries’ to analyze the competing visions shaping Indonesia’s response to the climate crisis. Building on and extending the established typology of climate imaginaries, we introduce a sixth imaginary: the indigenous imaginary grounded in the customary knowledge (adat) and relational cosmologies of masyarakat adat. Through Cultural Political Economy, we map how the dominant techno-market and anthr…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Asian Studies and History (12 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Islam (6 works) · Islamic Finance and Communication (6 works) · Democracy (5 works)