A Postcolonial Inquiry of Women's Political Agency in Aceh, Indonesia: Towards a Muslim Feminist Approach?

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dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Reed W.en
dc.contributor.committeecochairScott, Rachel M.en
dc.contributor.committeecochairSchmitthenner, Peter L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberGillman, Laura J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberSmith, Barbara Ellenen
dc.contributor.departmentAlliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thoughten
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:17:53Zen
dc.date.adate2012-09-04en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:17:53Zen
dc.date.issued2012-08-13en
dc.date.rdate2012-09-04en
dc.date.sdate2012-08-22en
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation, I develop a postcolonial theoretical approach to localized Muslim feminism(s) in Aceh, Indonesia, based on interviews with women in Aceh in 2009 and 2010. One of the central aims of this study is to challenge the dominant exclusivist discourse of "Islamic" feminism by providing a viable alternative for "Muslim" feminism(s), derived from collaborative, indigenous, and post-secular politics. I address the need for a religious feminist model of subjectivity that incorporates both the political and ethical dimensions of agency in potentially non-patriarchal and non-state-centric formations. I suggest a communal understanding of religious law as an alternative to conceptualizing religious law (syariah) in terms of a personal ethical code or a system of laws emanating from a state. I propose an alternative discourse of feminist agency and religious identity, one that reaches beyond a secular-liberal epistemology and challenges the hegemonic discourse of state-centrism within a privatized religious identity.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-08222012-121838en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222012-121838/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/39190en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartTaylor_ReedW_D_2012.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectfeminismen
dc.subjectpost-colonialen
dc.subjectsubjectivityen
dc.subjectIslamen
dc.subjectSoutheast Asiaen
dc.titleA Postcolonial Inquiry of Women's Political Agency in Aceh, Indonesia: Towards a Muslim Feminist Approach?en
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thoughten
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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