Dr Annisa R. Beta theorises rasa through autotheoretical essays from Jakarta's 2025 youth protests, situating young women's writing within Indonesian feminist knowledge traditions.
Theorising rasa (feeling, embodied knowing) as an affective epistemic category through two autotheoretical essays written during the 2025 youth-led protests in Jakarta, this presentation situates young women's political writing within Indonesian feminist knowledge traditions. It proposes autotheory as a collaborative methodology within Youth Participatory Action Research that treats affect as theoretical labour rather than narrative data.
Speaker
Dr Annisa R. Beta is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, working across Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Her research examines digital cultures, youth, gender, and the politics of knowledge in everyday life.
She is the author of Pious Girls (Routledge, 2024) and is currently completing her next monograph, Empowerment Elsewhere. Annisa is developing critical girlhood studies, reimagining girlhood and youth studies' scholarship and praxis from and in Southeast Asia. She also co-founded Anotasi and the Jaringan Etnografi Terbuka/Open Ethnography Network (JET), in support of critical and collaborative ways of mobilising knowledge in Indonesia.
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