Doctoral Dissertation Research: Globalization and the Women's Movement in Indonesia

博士论文研究：全球化与印度尼西亚妇女运动

• 批准号: 0425690
• 负责人: Saskia Sassen
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-15 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0425690&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Globalization; Women

Since September 11, 2001, the world has been rocked by terrorism and war. The repercussions of these events have deeply impacted Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population. Not surprisingly, there has been a backlash in Indonesia against ideas and institutions identified as American or "Western." The rights and roles of women in the family and society are currently vital discussions in Indonesia. At the same time, the Indonesian women's movement has continued to grow and mature. Women's groups have benefited from their exposure to foreign donors and interaction with international women's movements. So in the current context of polarization, I ask, how are Indonesian women's organizations using Western-derived ideas about gender and women's rights? How are they adapting these concepts in their struggles for equality, rights, and justice? How does their application of such ideas shape their participation in ongoing debates and conflicts within Indonesia? To answer these questions, I spent September 2002 through August 2003 pursuing ethnographic research on four women's organizations in Jakarta. These organizations ranged from a secular feminist group to the women's division of an Islamist political party. Through in-depth, participant observation, I came to know these Indonesian activists and understand their views on women's rights, gender equality, and sexuality. Women's rights movements in the Middle East are usually secular, so the Indonesian women's movement is distinctive in that many participants find it possible to be a Muslim and a feminist. This research examines the multiple meanings of gender and women's rights to women activists, probing different ways of being feminist. It also contributes to the debates on feminism, gender, and Islam by adding an Indonesian context to the research of scholars such as Lila Abu-Lughod and Haleh Afshar. Finally, suggesting that similar women's organizations even within the same city may be engaging with diverse global structures, this research provides a more multifaceted understanding of globalization's impacts on Indonesia. Though globalization is often blamed for provoking religious fundamentalism, this research shows that global flows of culture and ideas can also provide important conceptual tools for women's organizations to promote rights and equality in their countries. The broader impacts of this research include the following. This research will be useful to researchers, students, and policymakers interested in understanding Muslim women's movements in the developing world, a topic which has not been adequately studied in the social sciences. When the dissertation is complete, I will donate copies to the libraries of my research sites, as well as to the Women's Studies Department at the University of Indonesia and the Center for Societal Development Studies at Atma Jaya University.

自2001年9月11日以来，世界一直受到恐怖主义和战争的影响。这些事件的后果深深影响了印度尼西亚这个世界上穆斯林人口最多的国家。毫不奇怪，在印度尼西亚，人们对被认为是美国或“西方”的思想和制度产生了强烈的反弹。“妇女在家庭和社会中的权利和作用是印度尼西亚目前讨论的重要问题。与此同时，印度尼西亚妇女运动继续发展和成熟。妇女团体因接触外国捐助者和与国际妇女运动互动而受益。因此，在当前两极分化的背景下，我问，印度尼西亚妇女组织如何使用西方关于性别和妇女权利的思想？他们如何在争取平等、权利和正义的斗争中适应这些概念？他们对这些思想的应用如何影响他们参与印度尼西亚境内正在进行的辩论和冲突？为了回答这些问题，我从2002年9月到2003年8月对雅加达的四个妇女组织进行了民族志研究。这些组织从一个世俗的女权主义团体到一个伊斯兰政党的妇女部门。通过深入的参与式观察，我认识了这些印尼活动家，了解了他们对妇女权利、性别平等和性的看法。中东的女权运动通常是世俗的，所以印度尼西亚的女权运动是与众不同的，因为许多参与者发现有可能是穆斯林和女权主义者。本研究探讨性别与女性权利对女性活动家的多重意义，并探讨女性主义的不同方式。它还有助于对女权主义，性别和伊斯兰教的辩论，增加了印尼的情况下，如莱拉阿布Lughod和哈勒Afshar学者的研究。最后，建议类似的妇女组织，甚至在同一个城市可能会与不同的全球结构，这项研究提供了一个更多方面的全球化对印度尼西亚的影响的理解。虽然全球化经常被指责为挑起宗教原教旨主义，但这项研究表明，文化和思想的全球流动也可以为妇女组织提供重要的概念工具，以促进其国家的权利和平等。这项研究的广泛影响包括以下几点。 这项研究将有助于研究人员，学生和政策制定者有兴趣了解穆斯林妇女在发展中国家的运动，这一主题还没有得到充分的研究，在社会科学。当论文完成后，我将把副本捐赠给我的研究地点的图书馆，以及印度尼西亚大学的妇女研究系和Atma Jaya大学的社会发展研究中心。