Birgit Bräuchler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 85252 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Birgit Bräuchler |
| PRENOMES | Birgit |
| SOBRENOME | Bräuchler |
| ASSINATURA | BRÄUCHLER B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4599-3582 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 116 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Golden Indonesia 2045
By 2045, the government wants Indonesia to be a developed country, with sustainable economic development and energy transition at the top of the agenda on the road to ‘Golden Indonesia’. Despite the supposedly ‘green’ agenda, the forceful push for economic development is causing significant environmental destruction. Through ethnographic research, this paper investigates the entanglements of Golden Indonesia politics, environmental journalism and…
Brokservirksomhed i kriser
Verden står i dag over for en lang række humanitære kriser, lige fra pandemier, krige og klimaforandringer til tvungen migration, og mange af dem er tæt forbundne. I en krise bryder de etablerede sociale mønstre ofte sammen, og mange136mennesker, der er berørt af krisen, fratages deres handlemuligheder. På grund af omfanget af nutidige kriser, både med hensyn til lokal påvirkning og global rækkevidde, er berørte mennesker ofte afhængige af broker…
Between recolonisation and decolonisation
Documenta 15, a global exhibition of contemporary art that took place in 2022 in Germany, over a period of 100 days, stands out for two reasons: (1) for the first time Documenta was under artistic directorship of an art collective, and (2) it was scandalised for displaying allegedly antisemitic art, mainly blaming Taring Padi (TP), a group of progressive artists and activists from Indonesia. In this paper we argue that the political decontextuali…
Conceptualizing crisis brokerage
The contemporary world is facing multiple crises, from pandemics to wars, from climate change to forced migration. Many of them are closely interlinked and bring to the fore and enforce existing inequalities. Although these crises are often global in scale, they are dealt with differently in specific, local contexts. Regardless of nature and scope of the crisis, affected people often rely on brokers to create meaning, mitigate the disruptive and …
Youths, Media and Performance
In many post-conflict settings, youths are seminal actors in the construction of performative and transgenerational memoryscapes. In this special issue, we argue that to facilitate transformation towards more peaceful futures such memory work requires creative approaches that open up spaces for reflection, reconstruction and engagement, and supportive wider contexts. We aim to shed light on the dynamics of transgenerational memory as a constructi…
Technologies of Ecological Mediation
Different world views and ontologies require different technologies to deal with environmental issues. Land reclamation plans in Bali’s south, meant to open up new space for tourist development, triggered strong but varied responses in the Balinese population, from rejection to enthusiasm. All actors claim to aim towards a prosperous Bali, and at the protection of a degrading environment, but notions of prosperity and protections and the means an…
‘I can’t remember how many I killed. . .’
The way conflicts are remembered is crucial for the prevention of future violence, and digital technologies play increasing roles in processes of remembering. This article looks at memory work conducted in a YouTube video featuring two former child soldiers in Maluku, Eastern Indonesia, and their story from mutual hatred and war to friendship and peace. Analysing and comparing the video and the related English and Indonesian video commentaries, t…
Creative Peacebuilding and Resistance in Indonesia
Official spaces for peacebuilding, reconciliation and coming to terms with the past are still very limited in Indonesia, giving the matter of creative peacebuilding and resistance enormous urgency. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, authors in this special issue look at the creative ways in which the Indonesian grassroots deal with continuing and new crises, including resource exploitation and the neglect of indigenous rights, communal vi…
Artivism in Maluku
Taking Eastern Indonesia as an example, this paper analyses alternative ways to maintain peace and fight social injustices. Arts and creativity are key in transformative justice approaches in post-conflict Maluku. The emerging arts scene was turned into a means to reintegrate society and resist disruptive outside forces, in direct contrast to use of the media and the arts to solidify group boundaries during the Moluccan conflict. This paper analy…
Theorising Media and Practice
Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and Schatzki and rethinks the study of media from the perspective of practice theory. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from places such as Zambia, India, Hong Kong, the United States, Britain, Norway and …
Brokerage from within
Situated between various social worlds, brokers are highly mobile figures, in a physical and an ideational sense; they channel scarce information and resources, translate different languages and jargons, and mediate and facilitate between individuals and/or organisations, the local and the global, in a wide range of settings. Taking an in-depth ethnographic look at the actual work of brokers and their particular life stories, contributions to thi…
Facilitating resonance
Putting forward a synergetic combination of three concepts - brokerage, indigeneity and resonance - this article investigates how brokers in Indonesia support indigenous communities in their struggle for citizen and human rights. It investigates the emergence of broker chains and multi-scalar activism that are needed to translate from the local - in this case the Aru Islands in Eastern Indonesia - to the global and vice versa. It engages with est…
Theorising Media and Conflict
From transitional to performative justice
Interventions such as courts and truth commissions are elements of an internationally established transitional justice (TJ) toolkit. Such measures are rarely sustainable or in place after the occurrence of mass violence. Those affected then have to themselves get active to restore social relationships. Civil society plays an important role in these transitions, but civil society also needs to be scrutinised to deconstruct reductionist conceptuali…
Brokerage, Creativity and Space
Protest movements in Indonesia resist the government’s liberal development policies and the destruction of culture and environment through capitalist intrusion and land (or sea) grabbing. This article analyses the role of intermediaries, or brokers, and how they draw on a global rhetoric of human rights, as well as environmentalism, indigeneity, local identity markers, and performative means to mobilise resistance. Drawing on Lindquist, the broke…
Diverging Ecologies on Bali
Social engineering the local for peace
Given the frequent failure of internationally established reconciliation tools, traditional conflict resolution mechanisms are increasingly integrated into transitional justice programmes in order to locally root peace. However, traditional justice mechanisms can be highly ambivalent; they can be, at the same time, inclusive and exclusionary, thus promoting peace or triggering new conflict. In Eastern Indonesia, where the author has conducted ext…
Peacebuilding and conceptualisations of the local
The frequent failure of international peace missions and the ‘crisis of the liberal peace’ led to the promotion of a local or cultural turn in peace research and work that focuses on the role and meaning of culture, local actors and a mostly unspecified ‘local’ for peacebuilding processes. This pushes peace and conflict studies to engage with the subject area of anthropological research, which poses a challenge for disciplines such as political a…
The cultural turn in peace research
The local turn in peace research emphasises the crucial role of cultural context and culturally determined conceptualisations of conflict, security and peace. It emerged as a critique of the liberal peace paradigm that promotes a happy alliance of democracy, economic development and peace. However, an epistemological turn towards culture has not yet taken place due to long-standing solutionist and quantitative traditions, but also due to the diff…
Towards dialogue and engagement
Changing patterns of mobility, citizenship and conflict in Indonesia
Mobility and migration are inherent ingredients of Indonesian cultures. In an archipelago with thousands of islands of various size, character and nature, mobility is an important means to make a living and to survive by migration. The right to free movement in Indonesia is constitutionally granted. It can create mobility and give expression to equal citizenship rights at the same time as it can trigger the enforcement of borders among cultural g…
Patterns of im/mobility, conflict and the re/making of identity narratives
This paper analyses the interrelationship between patterns of im/mobility on the one hand and the reconstitution of social collective identities and the related emergence or settlement of conflicts on the other. The main arguments are (1) that the im/mobility of a social or cultural group has major impact on how identity narratives, a sense of belonging and relationships to ‘others’ are shaped, and vice versa, and (2) that these dynamics are clos…
The Cultural Dimension of Peace
"The Cultural Dimension of Peace and Reconciliation outlines an emerging cultural turn in Peace Studies. Taking an anthropological view of decentralization and peace processes in Indonesia as its central focus, it provides an informed understanding of the cultural dimension of reconciliation that is essential for the reintegration of societies that have undergone mass violence and long-lasting conflict. Bräuchler's study warns of one-sided instru…
Moluccan Cyberactors
Tulisan ini membahas cyberspace dan konflik di Maluku untuk memperlihatkan sumbangan bagi cyber anthropology dan analisis mekanisme yang rumit pada situasi di Maluku. Konflik Maluku tidak cuma berlangsung pada tingkat lokal dan nasional, tetapi juga di cyberspace .Tampilan-tampilan di cyberspace sejajar dengan garis-garis agama sehingga memperkuat kesan perang agama antara umat Kristiani dan masyarakat Muslim. Internet menyediakan sarana bagi kel…
Introduction Eastern Indonesia under Reform
Theorising Media and Practice
Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and Schatzki and rethinks the study of media from the perspective of practice theory. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from places such as Zambia, India, Hong Kong, the United States, Britain, Norway and …
Patterns of im/mobility, conflict and the re/making of identity narratives
This paper analyses the interrelationship between patterns of im/mobility on the one hand and the reconstitution of social collective identities and the related emergence or settlement of conflicts on the other. The main arguments are (1) that the im/mobility of a social or cultural group has major impact on how identity narratives, a sense of belonging and relationships to ‘others’ are shaped, and vice versa, and (2) that these dynamics are clos…
Brokerage from within
Situated between various social worlds, brokers are highly mobile figures, in a physical and an ideational sense; they channel scarce information and resources, translate different languages and jargons, and mediate and facilitate between individuals and/or organisations, the local and the global, in a wide range of settings. Taking an in-depth ethnographic look at the actual work of brokers and their particular life stories, contributions to thi…
Changing patterns of mobility, citizenship and conflict in Indonesia
Mobility and migration are inherent ingredients of Indonesian cultures. In an archipelago with thousands of islands of various size, character and nature, mobility is an important means to make a living and to survive by migration. The right to free movement in Indonesia is constitutionally granted. It can create mobility and give expression to equal citizenship rights at the same time as it can trigger the enforcement of borders among cultural g…
Diverging Ecologies on Bali
Brokerage, Creativity and Space
Protest movements in Indonesia resist the government’s liberal development policies and the destruction of culture and environment through capitalist intrusion and land (or sea) grabbing. This article analyses the role of intermediaries, or brokers, and how they draw on a global rhetoric of human rights, as well as environmentalism, indigeneity, local identity markers, and performative means to mobilise resistance. Drawing on Lindquist, the broke…
Kings on Stage
From transitional to performative justice
Interventions such as courts and truth commissions are elements of an internationally established transitional justice (TJ) toolkit. Such measures are rarely sustainable or in place after the occurrence of mass violence. Those affected then have to themselves get active to restore social relationships. Civil society plays an important role in these transitions, but civil society also needs to be scrutinised to deconstruct reductionist conceptuali…
The cultural turn in peace research
The local turn in peace research emphasises the crucial role of cultural context and culturally determined conceptualisations of conflict, security and peace. It emerged as a critique of the liberal peace paradigm that promotes a happy alliance of democracy, economic development and peace. However, an epistemological turn towards culture has not yet taken place due to long-standing solutionist and quantitative traditions, but also due to the diff…
Facilitating resonance
Putting forward a synergetic combination of three concepts - brokerage, indigeneity and resonance - this article investigates how brokers in Indonesia support indigenous communities in their struggle for citizen and human rights. It investigates the emergence of broker chains and multi-scalar activism that are needed to translate from the local - in this case the Aru Islands in Eastern Indonesia - to the global and vice versa. It engages with est…
Youths, Media and Performance
In many post-conflict settings, youths are seminal actors in the construction of performative and transgenerational memoryscapes. In this special issue, we argue that to facilitate transformation towards more peaceful futures such memory work requires creative approaches that open up spaces for reflection, reconstruction and engagement, and supportive wider contexts. We aim to shed light on the dynamics of transgenerational memory as a constructi…
Cultural Solutions to Religious Conflicts? The Revival of Tradition in the Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia
Conceptualizing crisis brokerage
The contemporary world is facing multiple crises, from pandemics to wars, from climate change to forced migration. Many of them are closely interlinked and bring to the fore and enforce existing inequalities. Although these crises are often global in scale, they are dealt with differently in specific, local contexts. Regardless of nature and scope of the crisis, affected people often rely on brokers to create meaning, mitigate the disruptive and …
Immaterielles Kulturerbe als Friedensstifter
Dieser Beitrag diskutiert Chancen und Herausforderungen, die aus einer Deklaration sogenannter traditioneller Gerechtigkeitsmechanismen als international anerkanntes immaterielles Kulturerbe resultieren. Lange Zeit konzentrierte sich international geförderter Wiederaufbau nach gewaltsam ausgetragenen Konflikten auf materielles Kulturerbe, das in selbigen beschädigt oder zerstört worden war. Die Auswirkungen von Massengewalt auf immaterielle kultu…
Religious Conflicts in Cyberage
The rise of the Internet has a profound impact on the way conflicts are carried out and the faithful practice their religions. This article explores new dimensions of religious conflicts by theoretically reflecting on new developments in cyberage and by substantiating this with an empirical case study—the Moluccan conflict (Eastern Indonesia). Due to the exponential growth of Internet access worldwide, religions and their followers are increasing…
Islamic Radicalism Online
The Internet has become an important instrument for the information politics of radical Muslim groups. This paper focuses on one of the Islamist groups that have emerged in Indonesia recently—the Communication Forum of the Followers of the Sunnah and the Community of the Prophet (FKAWJ). The FKAWJ sent its fighters, the so‐called Laskar Jihad or Jihad troop/fighters, to Ambon in April 2000 to help their Muslim brothers against the ‘Christian atta…
Islamic Radicalism Online
The Internet has become an important instrument for the information politics of radical Muslim groups. This paper focuses on one of the Islamist groups that have emerged in Indonesia recently-the Communication Forum of the Followers of the Sunnah and the Community of the Prophet (FKAWJ). The FKAWJ sent its fighters, the so-called Laskar Jihad or Jihad troop/fighters, to Ambon in April 2000 to help their Muslim brothers against the 'Christian atta…
Religious Conflicts in Cyberage
The rise of the Internet has a profound impact on the way conflicts are carried out and the faithful practice their religions. This article explores new dimensions of religious conflicts by theoretically reflecting on new developments in cyberage and by substantiating this with an empirical case study—the Moluccan conflict (Eastern Indonesia). Due to the exponential growth of Internet access worldwide, religions and their followers are increasing…
Reconciling Indonesia
1. Introduction: Alternative Dimensions of ReconciliationBirgit Brauchler, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore2. Civil Society and Grassroots Reconciliation in Central JavaPriyambudi Sulistiyanto, Flinders University, Adelaide & Rumekso Setyadi, Syarikat,Yogyakarta3. Reconciling Society through History Education and the Deconstruction of SocialMemoryGrace Leksana, Indonesian Institute of Social History, Jakarta4. A Bridge an…
Cultural Solutions to Religious Conflicts? The Revival of Tradition in the Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia
Integration and Exclusion
Focusing on the recent Moluccan conflict (1999–2003), this article takes a closer look at a traditional village federation called Hatuhaha on Haruku island (Central Moluccas) and its specific version of Islam. From an anthropological perspective, it explores the dynamics in the Islam-adat relationship and the role of historical developments and politics on a local, national and international level. It not only throws new light on the so-called ‘r…
The Revival Dilemma
On the fall of Suharto, the long-surviving authoritarian president of Indonesia, in 1998, the ‘reform era’ began. Quite revolutionary laws on decentralisation sought to meet international notions of democracy and human rights, and local claims to greater self-determination. The decentralisation process in Indonesia was thus accompanied by a nationwide trend to revive local traditions, political units and institutions, and traditional leaders. Thi…
Introduction Eastern Indonesia under Reform
Kings on Stage
Immaterielles Kulturerbe als Friedensstifter
Dieser Beitrag diskutiert Chancen und Herausforderungen, die aus einer Deklaration sogenannter traditioneller Gerechtigkeitsmechanismen als international anerkanntes immaterielles Kulturerbe resultieren. Lange Zeit konzentrierte sich international geförderter Wiederaufbau nach gewaltsam ausgetragenen Konflikten auf materielles Kulturerbe, das in selbigen beschädigt oder zerstört worden war. Die Auswirkungen von Massengewalt auf immaterielle kultu…
Moluccan Cyberactors
Tulisan ini membahas cyberspace dan konflik di Maluku untuk memperlihatkan sumbangan bagi cyber anthropology dan analisis mekanisme yang rumit pada situasi di Maluku. Konflik Maluku tidak cuma berlangsung pada tingkat lokal dan nasional, tetapi juga di cyberspace .Tampilan-tampilan di cyberspace sejajar dengan garis-garis agama sehingga memperkuat kesan perang agama antara umat Kristiani dan masyarakat Muslim. Internet menyediakan sarana bagi kel…
The Cultural Dimension of Peace
"The Cultural Dimension of Peace and Reconciliation outlines an emerging cultural turn in Peace Studies. Taking an anthropological view of decentralization and peace processes in Indonesia as its central focus, it provides an informed understanding of the cultural dimension of reconciliation that is essential for the reintegration of societies that have undergone mass violence and long-lasting conflict. Bräuchler's study warns of one-sided instru…
Social engineering the local for peace
Given the frequent failure of internationally established reconciliation tools, traditional conflict resolution mechanisms are increasingly integrated into transitional justice programmes in order to locally root peace. However, traditional justice mechanisms can be highly ambivalent; they can be, at the same time, inclusive and exclusionary, thus promoting peace or triggering new conflict. In Eastern Indonesia, where the author has conducted ext…
Peacebuilding and conceptualisations of the local
The frequent failure of international peace missions and the ‘crisis of the liberal peace’ led to the promotion of a local or cultural turn in peace research and work that focuses on the role and meaning of culture, local actors and a mostly unspecified ‘local’ for peacebuilding processes. This pushes peace and conflict studies to engage with the subject area of anthropological research, which poses a challenge for disciplines such as political a…
The cultural turn in peace research
The local turn in peace research emphasises the crucial role of cultural context and culturally determined conceptualisations of conflict, security and peace. It emerged as a critique of the liberal peace paradigm that promotes a happy alliance of democracy, economic development and peace. However, an epistemological turn towards culture has not yet taken place due to long-standing solutionist and quantitative traditions, but also due to the diff…
Towards dialogue and engagement
Changing patterns of mobility, citizenship and conflict in Indonesia
Mobility and migration are inherent ingredients of Indonesian cultures. In an archipelago with thousands of islands of various size, character and nature, mobility is an important means to make a living and to survive by migration. The right to free movement in Indonesia is constitutionally granted. It can create mobility and give expression to equal citizenship rights at the same time as it can trigger the enforcement of borders among cultural g…
Patterns of im/mobility, conflict and the re/making of identity narratives
This paper analyses the interrelationship between patterns of im/mobility on the one hand and the reconstitution of social collective identities and the related emergence or settlement of conflicts on the other. The main arguments are (1) that the im/mobility of a social or cultural group has major impact on how identity narratives, a sense of belonging and relationships to ‘others’ are shaped, and vice versa, and (2) that these dynamics are clos…
Diverging Ecologies on Bali
From transitional to performative justice
Interventions such as courts and truth commissions are elements of an internationally established transitional justice (TJ) toolkit. Such measures are rarely sustainable or in place after the occurrence of mass violence. Those affected then have to themselves get active to restore social relationships. Civil society plays an important role in these transitions, but civil society also needs to be scrutinised to deconstruct reductionist conceptuali…
Brokerage, Creativity and Space
Protest movements in Indonesia resist the government’s liberal development policies and the destruction of culture and environment through capitalist intrusion and land (or sea) grabbing. This article analyses the role of intermediaries, or brokers, and how they draw on a global rhetoric of human rights, as well as environmentalism, indigeneity, local identity markers, and performative means to mobilise resistance. Drawing on Lindquist, the broke…
Theorising Media and Conflict
Brokerage from within
Situated between various social worlds, brokers are highly mobile figures, in a physical and an ideational sense; they channel scarce information and resources, translate different languages and jargons, and mediate and facilitate between individuals and/or organisations, the local and the global, in a wide range of settings. Taking an in-depth ethnographic look at the actual work of brokers and their particular life stories, contributions to thi…
Facilitating resonance
Putting forward a synergetic combination of three concepts - brokerage, indigeneity and resonance - this article investigates how brokers in Indonesia support indigenous communities in their struggle for citizen and human rights. It investigates the emergence of broker chains and multi-scalar activism that are needed to translate from the local - in this case the Aru Islands in Eastern Indonesia - to the global and vice versa. It engages with est…
Creative Peacebuilding and Resistance in Indonesia
Official spaces for peacebuilding, reconciliation and coming to terms with the past are still very limited in Indonesia, giving the matter of creative peacebuilding and resistance enormous urgency. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, authors in this special issue look at the creative ways in which the Indonesian grassroots deal with continuing and new crises, including resource exploitation and the neglect of indigenous rights, communal vi…
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