Birgitt Röttger-Rössler is Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. Thomas Stodulka works there as a Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow.

This book integrates social anthropological, political, and historical perspectives on the emotional impact of marginalization, stigmatization and violence in present-day Indonesia. The authors' combined focus on regional particularities and universal dimensions of experiencing and dealing with social, economic and psychological adversities targets scholars who share regional interest in the archipelago and researchers concerned with theoretical aspects of the interplay between power asymmetries, agency, emotion and culture.

Content

Acknowledgments9

Introduction-The Emotional Make-up of Marginality and Stigma11

Birgitt Röttger-Rössler & Thomas Stodulka

What Makes a Good Life?-Changing Marginality
and Dayak Benuaq Subjective Wellbeing in East Kalimantan30

Michaela Haug

Converging Ontologies, Flattening of Time-Discordant
Temporalities and Feeling Rules in Bali's New Village Jurisdictions53

Martin Ramstedt

When Trauma Came to Halmahera-Global Governance,
Emotion Work, and the Reinvention of Spirits in North Maluku81

Nils Bubandt

"Playing it Right"-Empathy and Emotional Economies
on the Streets of Java103

Thomas Stodulka

Locations of Emotional Security-Queer Narratives on Stigma,
Marginality, and Cross-Cultural Friendships in Java128

Eric Anton Heuser

Lessons from the Notion of "Moral Terrorism"148

Tom Boellstorff

Navigating Inner Conflict-Online Circulation of Indonesian
Muslim Queer Emotions159

Ferdiansyah Thajib

Marginalized by Silence-Victims of Japanese Occupation
in Indonesia's Political Memory180

Boryano Rickum

Keeping Hope in a Marginalized World-Testimonies of
Former Political Prisoners in Yogyakarta196

Baskara T. Wardaya

The Act of Killing and Dealing with Present-Day Demons of Impunity-
A Conversation with Joshua Oppenheimer218

Victoria K. Sakti

Map of Indonesia229

Notes on Contributors230

Index233

This book integrates social anthropological, political, and historical perspectives on the emotional impact of marginalization, stigmatization and violence in present-day Indonesia. The authors' combined focus on regional particularities and universal dimensions of experiencing and dealing with social, economic and psychological adversities targets scholars who share regional interest in the archipelago and researchers concerned with theoretical aspects of the interplay between power asymmetries, agency, emotion and culture.