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Dubbing culture: Indonesian gay and lesbi subjectivities and ethnography in an already globalized world
Author(s) -
Boellstorff Tom
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.2003.30.2.225
Subject(s) - mainstream , indonesian , lesbian , ethnography , sociology , gender studies , globalization , nationalism , homosexuality , mass media , identity (music) , media studies , anthropology , political science , politics , aesthetics , linguistics , art , philosophy , law
In this article I explore how Indonesians come to see themselves as lesbi or gay through fragmentary encounters with mainstream mass media (rather than lesbian and gay Westerners or Western lesbian and gay media). By placing this ethnographic material alongside a recent debate on the dubbing of foreign television programs into the Indonesian language, I develop a theoretical framework of "dubbing culture" to critically analyze globalizing processes. [globalization, homosexuality, identity, Indonesia, mass media, nationalism, postcolonial]