From the theatre of torture to the theatre of peace: The politics of torture and re-imagining peacebuilding in Papua, Indonesia

dc.contributor.authorHernawan, Yohanes Budien_AU
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-19T00:26:46Z
dc.date.available2013-08-19T00:26:46Z
dc.date.copyright2013-03en_AU
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis thesis provides the first full-length of scholarly examination of the half century of the politics of torture and peacebuilding frameworks in Papua, Indonesia. It has assembled a data base of 431 reported torture cases for the period 1963-2010 as well as examined 214 testimonies of state actors, survivors and third parties from Indonesia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. While the current resurgence of scholarly interests on torture largely focuses on the utilitarian nature of torture as part of the war on terror, the findings of this study take a non-utilitarian turn. First, torture has been deployed strategically by the Indonesian state in Papua as a mode of governance. Second, torture constitutes a spectacle of the sovereign by which the sovereign communicates to a broader audience through the public display of the tortured body. Third, torture has constituted a crime against humanity punishable by both Indonesian and International Human Rights Law. Fourth, the five-decade practice of torture with almost complete impunity has constructed a theatre of torture in which the interactions of survivors, perpetrators, and spectators have produced and reproduced contesting narratives of suffering, domination and witnessing. Based on these four conclusions, peacebuilding in Papua can be reconceptualised as developing a theatre of peacebuilding to transform the theatre of torture. The theatre of peacebuilding model reveals that torture has not always entirely and permanently converted a subject into an ‘abject’. Many survivors not only regain their subjectivity but also their agency. They are able to resist the domination of perpetrators and to take control over their own bodies and histories. In this process of regaining agency, memoria passionis (the memory of suffering) may be beginning to push Papua toward a tipping point that is transforming the theatre of torture to a theatre of peacebuilding. The possibility for this transformation is encapsulated in the idea of establishing a permanent Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Papua (TRCP). Memoria passionis has become a converging point that connects the triangulation of the narratives of suffering, domination and witnessing and inverts the triangulation into a new configuration of ‘revolt, healing and solidarity.’ The whole process of theorising peacebuilding based on the concept of memoria passionis as a remedy to the politics of torture in Papua contributes a novel and distinctively Papuan foundation to the theory and practice of peacebuilding in conflict situations like Papua.en_AU
dc.format.extent1 vol.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.otherb3126508x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/10325
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenanceDo not request access from author. "thesis has been published as a book by Routledge entitled "Torture and Peacebuilding in Indonesia: the case of Papua," users are advised to get a copy of the book in the open market. My thesis, however, remains restricted." (The Author, 11.3.2020)
dc.publisherCanberra, ACT : The Australian National Universityen_AU
dc.rightsAuthor retains copyrighten_AU
dc.subjectTortureen_AU
dc.subjectPapuaen_AU
dc.subjectIndonesiaen_AU
dc.subjectstate-violenceen_AU
dc.subjectpeacebuildingen_AU
dc.subjectPapua Land of Peaceen_AU
dc.subjecthuman rightsen_AU
dc.subjectmemoria passionisen_AU
dc.subjectcrimes against humanityen_AU
dc.titleFrom the theatre of torture to the theatre of peace: The politics of torture and re-imagining peacebuilding in Papua, Indonesiaen_AU
dc.typeThesis (PhD)en_AU
dcterms.accessRightsRestricted accessen_AU
dcterms.valid2013en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationRegulatory Institutions Networken_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.institutionThe Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.supervisorBraithwaite, Johnen_AU
local.contributor.supervisorcontactjohn.braithwaite@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesThe thesis has been published as a book: Hernawan, Budi. Torture and Peacebuilding in Indonesia: The Case of Papua. Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9781138184961
local.description.refereedYesen_AU
local.identifier.doi10.25911/5d51473a82b8c
local.mintdoimint
local.request.emailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.request.nameDigital Thesesen_AU
local.type.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_AU
local.type.statusAccepted Versionen_AU

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