Masters Thesis

The politics of knowledge production: locating girlhood in contemporary Indonesia

This projects centers on the underdeveloped girlhood studies in Indonesia. By showing the potentials of the studies through two narratives of Indonesian girls, the project offers a new way of thinking about female youth in Indonesia and other third-world countries as contradictory, prolific, and influential actors in contemporary sociocultural dynamics. Not only visible in popular culture and social media through post-feminist luminosities, they also have played an important part in shaping the 'future' Indonesian women and therefore gender construction in post-Suharto Indonesia. I conclude with a suggestion to develop girlhood studies in Indonesia by encouraging making knowledge with Indonesian girls as a way of knowing responsibly, and thus making attempts for a more just way of producing knowledge.

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