
The Made-Up State
Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia
Benjamin Hegarty(Author)
Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University (Publisher)
Published on 15. December 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
198 pages
978-1-5017-6665-7 (ISBN)
Description
In The Made-Up State, Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of Indonesia's trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the affective, material, and spatial experiences of belonging to a modern public sphere. Combining historical and ethnographic research, Hegarty traces the participation of warias in visual and bodily technologies, ranging from psychiatry and medical transsexuality to photography and feminine beauty.
The concept of development deployed by the modern Indonesian state relies on naturalizing the binary of "male" and "female." As historical brokers between gender as a technological system of classifying human difference and state citizenship, warias shaped the contours of modern selfhood even while being positioned as nonconforming within it. The Made-Up State illuminates warias as part of the social and technological format of state rule, which has given rise to new possibilities for seeing and being seen as a citizen in postcolonial Indonesia.
The concept of development deployed by the modern Indonesian state relies on naturalizing the binary of "male" and "female." As historical brokers between gender as a technological system of classifying human difference and state citizenship, warias shaped the contours of modern selfhood even while being positioned as nonconforming within it. The Made-Up State illuminates warias as part of the social and technological format of state rule, which has given rise to new possibilities for seeing and being seen as a citizen in postcolonial Indonesia.
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Hegarty's The Made-Up State, with its sharp historical and ethnographic insights, is a vital contribution to our understanding of trans femininity in Indonesia * Sojourn *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Publishing group
Cornell University Press
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
13 b&w halftones, 2 maps - 13 Halftones, black and white - 2 Maps
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-6665-7 (9781501766657)
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Benjamin Hegarty is McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Melbourne and a Research Fellow at the HIV AIDS Research Center for Health Policy and Social Innovation, Atma Jaya Catholic University. He has published articles in the Journal of Asian Studies, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Content
Introduction: Making Public Gender
1. Banci, before Waria
2. Jakarta, 1968
3. The Perfect Woman
4. Beauty Experts
5. National Glamour
Conclusion: Making Up the State
1. Banci, before Waria
2. Jakarta, 1968
3. The Perfect Woman
4. Beauty Experts
5. National Glamour
Conclusion: Making Up the State