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Under Duress: Suppressing and Recovering Memories of the Indonesian Sixties (Hearman, 2013)

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Vannessa Hearman's 2013 article on memories 'under duress', from interviews with over thirty ex-prisoners: screening and stigma forced concealment, name changes and silence; Gerwani appears via 'Leila' and 'Tuti' and Sukarno-era WIDF internationalism. Oral history methodology.

Artikel Vannessa Hearman 2013 tentang ingatan 'di bawah tekanan', dari wawancara lebih dari tiga puluh mantan tahanan: penyaringan dan stigma memaksa penyembunyian, ganti nama dan kebisuan; Gerwani muncul lewat 'Leila' dan 'Tuti' serta internasionalisme WIDF era Sukarno. Metodologi sejarah lisan.

People

Vannessa HearmanLeilaTutiHarsutejo

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Women's International Democratic FederationCommunist Party of IndonesiaAfro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation

Places

East JavaJakarta

Topics

memory, testimony and justicearrests and detentionWIDF and international women's movementtheory and method

Tags

life after releasestigmatrauma and silenceoral historyscreening and loyalty oaths

Details

Date
2013
Creator
Hearman
Document type
journal article (peer-reviewed journal article (oral history methodology, memory studies))
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
Philippines
Period
1999–present
Source archive
Archium Ateneo (bepress) · source link
Access
Downloaded 2026-10-15 via Nath's Chrome (see 'Download Log 2026-10-15.csv'); Archīum Ateneo (https://archium.ateneo.edu/socialtransformations/vol1/iss1/2), DOI 10.13185/2799-015X.1028; open access ('brought to you for free and open access by the Ateneo Journals at Archīum Ateneo'). Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Hearman, V. (2013). Under duress: Suppressing and recovering memories of the Indonesian sixties. Social Transformations: Journal of the Global South, 1(1), 5–25. https://doi.org/10.13185/2799-015X.1028
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Hearman (2013) - Under Duress, Suppressing and Recovering Memories of the Indonesian Sixties.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.959) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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