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Neoliberalism and the punitive turn in Southeast Asia and beyond: implications for gender, sexuality, and graduated pluralism
Author(s) -
Peletz Michael G.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of the royal anthropological institute
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1467-9655
pISSN - 1359-0987
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9655.13317
Subject(s) - punitive damages , asian values , expansive , pluralism (philosophy) , human sexuality , political science , globalization , politics , neoliberalism (international relations) , gender studies , sociology , political economy , development economics , law , philosophy , compressive strength , materials science , epistemology , composite material , economics
Abstract Anthropologists and other scholars have explored the elective affinities between neoliberal globalization and punitive turns in both legal and more expansive cultural‐political domains, particularly in Western settings such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. This article expands the discussion by engaging these affinities in late modern Southeast Asia, especially the Muslim‐majority nations of Malaysia and Indonesia. One goal of the article is to describe and analyse the constriction of pluralism with respect to gender and sexuality, a key feature of the surge in punitiveness in many societies in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. Others include elucidating similarities and differences between trends in Southeast Asia and the new punitiveness we have seen in the United States in recent decades, and highlighting some of the comparative and theoretical implications of my arguments.