Questions on the Impact of Social Sciences and Subaltern Representation in Third World Countries

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10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_43How to use a DOI?

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Spivack; Subaltern; Geographical Imagination; Fieldwork

Abstract

Throughout Spivack’s work as a theory and using self-reflectivity as method, this article examines the representation of scholars’ problems from the developing country that studied the subalternity by proposing Indonesia’s case through the two figures. There are myself as a former researcher at human rights NGOs and Lian Gogali, who is working with the subaltern people, specifically the mothers and children that have been impacted by the religious conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi, between Muslims and Christian in the period 1998–2001. Specifically, this article explores the complex structure of power relations between scholar/researcher and informant/subaltern compared to scholars working overseas, studying in the same field. The result of this research is the contribution of geographical imagination as the pivotal point to differentiate between “home scholars” staying in the country and a part of their research fieldwork and scholars working in the developed countries by fieldwork in the developing countries. In addition, both a locality and a strong engagement are essential points that have been embedded in these “home scholars”, causing them to choose the problematic options, specifically on the moral appeal of hutang budi (debt of gratitude) as a part of the discursive tradition.

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AU  - Wahyudi Akmaliah
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DA  - 2023/03/19
TI  - Questions on the Impact of Social Sciences and Subaltern Representation in Third World Countries
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2022 (IJCAH 2022)
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