Queer Social Movements and Activism in Indonesia and Malaysia

Jón Ingvar Kjaran is Professor of sociology of education and queer pedagogy in the School of Education at the University of Iceland. Their research focus is on sexuality, gender diversity, queer activism, HIV, migration and violence. Mohammad Naeimi is  Lecturer and Researcher in gender, politics, and education in the School of Education at the University of Iceland. His research concerns violence in formal and non-formal educational spaces, queer activism in the global south, queer pedagogy, and queer immigrants’ belonging formation.

• Introduction: Queer activism and the politics of sexuality and gender  in Indonesia and Malaysia.- PART 1.- An Assemblage of theories in understanding social and queer Activism.- Marginal militants: Queer reclaiming, politics, and activism in the global north.- Politics of modernity: Hybridity, sexual politics and queer movements in the global south.- PART 2.- Politics of doors: Queer activism in Malaysia as technologies of the self.- Politics of (un)intelligibility: Trans*activism in Indonesia.- Politics of re-orientations: HIV/AIDS activism in Indonesia.- Conclusion: Queer activism as will to knowledge.