Dr Emma Baulch
Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Research Fellow, Southeast Asia Centre |
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Dr Emma Baulch began studying Indonesian in Year 8 High School, in the year
1980, and has spent ten of the last twenty years living in Indonesia. In the
early 1990s, she was involved in human rights activism in Jakarta and
Melbourne. In the late 1990s, spectacular cultural changes brought about by
changes in media ownership and content in Indonesia impressed her greatly.
Related phenomena continue to overwhelm her and hold her interest. She has
written about some of their facets; music subcultures, advertising and the
national popular music industry. She uses ethnography as a research method,
and her research to date has been on the islands of Java and Bali. In
writing, she explores ideas about locality, history and class, notions of
agency and resistance, and processes of mediatisation. For inspiration and
guidance, she enjoys reading works by Arjun Appadurai, Hannah Arendt, Dipesh
Chakrabarty, Dick Hebdige, PM Laksono, George Marcus, Christopher Pinney,
Wendi Putranto, Dorothy Porter, Degung Santikarma and Edith Wharton. At the
ANU, she is a post-doctoral fellow on an ARC-funded project entitled “Middle
Classes, New Media and Indie Networks in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia”,
headed by Ariel Heryanto and administered by the Faculty of Asian Studies.
Publications
- 2008 ‘Cosmopatriatism in Indonesian pop music imagings’ in Jeroen de Kloet and Edwin Jurriens (eds) Cosmopatriots: Globalization, Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Asian Culture/s Amsterdam: Rodopi
- 2007 'Making scenes: reggae, death metal and punk in 1990s’ Bali, Durham: Duke University Press
- 2004 ‘Reggae borderzones, reggae graveyards: Bob Marley fandom in Bali’ in Perfect Beat, v6n4, January: 3-27
- 2003 ‘Gesturing elsewhere: the identity politics of the Balinese death/thrash metal scene’, Popular Music 22(2) 195-215
- 2002a "Alternative Music and Mediation in Late New Order Indonesia’, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 3:2
- 2002b ‘Creating a Scene: Balinese punk’s beginnings’, International Journal of Cultural Studies 5:2