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Activist Styling: Fashioning Domestic Worker Identities in Indonesia
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Abstract This article investigates the use of dress by Indonesia's domestic worker movement as a means of resisting gendered political disregard and legal exclusion. JALA PRT, Indonesia's National Network for Domestic Worker Advocacy, founded in 2004 and spearheaded by feminist activists, supports the develo... view more
This article investigates the use of dress by Indonesia's domestic worker movement as a means of resisting gendered political disregard and legal exclusion. JALA PRT, Indonesia's National Network for Domestic Worker Advocacy, founded in 2004 and spearheaded by feminist activists, supports the development of domestic worker unions. From the outset, it has campaigned for an Indonesian domestic workers law, and, since 2011, for the ratification of ILO Convention 189 (C189) on decent work for domestic workers. Analysing a series of demonstrations staged from 2009 onwards, this article argues that the use of elements of a housemaid's uniform as a costume within a contentious politics of presence has helped keep domestic worker rights on the political agenda, fashioned workers into activists and created a collective history and new identity for Indonesia’s domestic workers as members of an emergent domestic worker class.... view less
Keywords
Indonesia; domestic; clothing; protest; social movement; working conditions; human rights; identity; Southeast Asia
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
PRT; pembantu; domestic workers; uniform; costume; ILO Convention 189; JALA PRT; demonstrations; politics of dress
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 25-51
Journal
International Quarterly for Asian Studies (IQAS), 53 (2022) 1
Issue topic
Dress as Symbolic Resistance in Asia
ISSN
2566-6878
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0