A Prof Ariel Heryanto
Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University
A/Prof Ariel HeryantoHead of the Southeast Asia Centre
Email: Ariel.Heryanto@anu.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 6125 3377
Fax: + 61 2 6125 8326
Room: e411 Baldessin Precinct Building
Background
Ariel Heryanto is Associate Professor of Indonesian Studies. He is the author of State Terrorism And Political Identity In Indonesia: Fatally Belonging (Routledge, 2006), editor of Popular Culture in Indonesia; Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics (Routledge, 2008), and co-editor of Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia; comparing Indonesia and Malaysia (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). He joined the Australian National University in 2009. Before that he taught at The University of Melbourne, National University of Singapore and Satya Wacana University in Indonesia. His first two university degrees were in Education. He received his Master of Arts degree from the University of Michigan, USA in Asian Studies, and his Doctorate of Philosophy from Monash University, Australia in Anthropology.
Research Interests
Ariel's chief interest has revolved around issues of cultural signifying practices, especially the everyday politics of identity and representation. He is interested in the study of semantic history (key words), discourse analysis, media, popular culture, ethnicity, nationality, hybridity, and diasporas. Although Indonesia is the country he knows best, he is keen on comparative studies especially among the neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia. As evident in his previous works, his favourite thinkers include (alphabetically) Mikhail Bakhtin, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Antonio Gramsci, Ivan Illich, Joel Kahn, YB Mangunwijaya, Achile Mbembe, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Putu Wijaya, and Raymond Williams.
Research in Progress
Pop Cultures in Indonesia: a New Asian Politics of Pleasures and Identity (ARC-DP0984905).
Middle Classes, New Media and Indie Networks in Post Authoritarian Indonesia (ARC-DP0984681 with APD Dr Emma Baulch).