ABSTRACT

This chapter investigates the ethics of remembering and speaking in the post-genocide era of Indonesia. In 1965, and the years that followed, Indonesia experienced acts of genocide when the cold war had impacted the country through internal politics and power struggles in many different ways. In thinking about translation, especially about how power structures within a state often mark feminism differently in the context of the global south compared with how it relates to the international context, the chapter describes a careful imagination of the matter of value and of the problem of locality and the particular. In the global context, especially the Euro-American one, the study of value cannot be separated from the study of race and political economy – for example, the form that was dominant in former colonized places is designated as not dominant (world dance) in the Euro-American.