Gender, Resistance and Transnational Memories of Violent Conflicts [Paperback]

This book investigates the importance of gender and resistance to silences and denials concerning human rights abuses and historical injustices in narratives on transnational memories of three violent conflicts in Indonesia. Transnational memories of violent conflicts travel abroad with politicians, postcolonial migrants and refugees. Starting with the Japanese occupation of Indonesia (19421945), the war of independence (19451949) and the genocide of 1965, the volume analyses narratives in Dutch and Indonesian novels in relation to social and political narratives (19422015). By focusing on gender and resistance from both Indonesian and Dutch, transnational and global perspectives, the author provides new perspectives on memories of the conflicts that are relevant to research on transitional justice and memory politics. Chapter 1. Introduction: Gender, resistance and transnational memories.- Chapter 2. Globalization, intersectional inequalities and narrative struggles.- Chapter 3. Transitional justice norms: the UN, Indonesia and the Netherlands.- Chapter 4. Silence, violence and gendered resistance.- Chapter 5. Masculinities, intersectionality and transnational memories.- Chapter 6. Narrating the nation and queering transitional justice.- Chapter 7. Denial, hope and transnational affective relations. 

Pauline Stoltz is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University, Denmark.