Tracing Silences

Ana Dragojlovic is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She works at the intersection of feminist, queer, postcolonial and affect theory and is the author of Beyond Bali: Subaltern Citizens and Post-Colonial Intimacy (2016), co-author of Bodies and Suffering: Emotions and Relations of Care (Routledge, 2018, with Alex Broom), and co-editor of Gender, Violence, Power: Indonesia Across Time and Space (Routledge, 2020, with Kate McGregor and Hannah Loney). Annemarie Samuels is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. Her research focuses on narrative, silence, HIV/AIDS, end-of-life care, and disaster in Indonesia. She is the author of After the Tsunami: Disaster Narratives and the Remaking of Everyday Life in Aceh (2019) and co-editor of Islam and the Limits of the State: Reconfigurations of Practice, Community, and Authority in Contemporary Aceh (2016, with R. Michael Feener and David Kloos).

Introduction—Tracing silences: Towards an anthropology of the unspoken and unspeakable 1. Practising affect for haunted speakability: Triggering trauma through an interactive art project 2. Emancipatory voice and the recursivity of authentic silence: Holocaust descendant accounts of the dialectic between silence and voice 3. ‘Devious silence’: Refugee art, memory activism, and the unspeakability of loss among Syrians in Turkey 4. Respecting silence: Longing, rhythm, and Chinese temples in an age of bulldozers 5. Strategies of silence in an age of transparency: Navigating HIV and visibility in Aceh, Indonesia Afterword: Haunted histories and the silences of everyday life