Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh

Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process

Marjaana Jauhola

• Publisher: Helsinki University Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9789523690189
• Print ISBN:
  9789523690165

The IPS Section of International Studies Association has awarded Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh an Honourable Mention for the 2022 IPS Best Book Award.Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh examines the rebuilding of the city of Banda Aceh in Indonesia in the aftermath of the celebrated Helsinki-based peace mediation process, thirty years of armed conflict, and the tsunami. Offering a critical contribution to the study of post-conflict politics, the book includes 14 documentary videos reflecting individuals' experiences on rebuilding the city and following the everyday lives of people in Banda Aceh.Marjaana Jauhola mirrors the peace-making process from the perspective of the 'outcast' and invisible, challenging the selective narrative and ideals of the peace as a success story. Jauhola provides alternative ways to reflect the peace dialogue using ethnographic and film documentarist storytelling.Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh tells a story of layered exiles and displacement, revealing hidden narratives of violence and grief while exposing struggles over gendered expectations of being good and respectable women and men. It brings to light the multiple ways of arranging lives and forming caring relationships outside the normative notions of nuclear family and home, and offers insights into the relations of power and violence that are embedded in the peace.This publication has received a subsidy for scientific publishing granted by the Ministry of Education and Culture from the proceeds of Veikkaus, distributed by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Videos
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: No More – Re-Centring the Subalterns of the Aceh Peace Process
• Chapter 1: Stumbling Scholarship: Reversing Research Praxis of Everyday Subjectivities
• Chapter 2: Kota Madani (Civilised City) and the Struggle to Define Ideal Womanhood
• Chapter 3: ‘Because You Are a Woman’: Resisting a Single Story
• Chapter 4: Subjugated Post-Conflict Masculinities: From Premanisme to Sufism
• Chapter 5: Chaotic Pavements: Punk/Metal Scene Keeping the Traumas of the City Open
• Chapter 6: Queer Community and Care: Being and Belonging in the Verandah of Mecca
• Chapter 7: The Political Economy of the PET Bottle
• Conclusions: Centring Ilmu Bodoh Foolish Knowledge, Changing the Way in Which Gendered Peace Is Conceptualised?
• Glossary
• Notes
• References
• A Note on the Sources of the Chapters
• Index