Staff profile

Ms Monika Swasti Winarnita

Community Liaison and Education Office, Centre for Dialogue

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Centre for Dialogue

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BCOMM (University of Canberra), BA Honours (Australian National University)

Brief profile

Monika Winarnita has joined the Centre for Dialogue as a Project Research Officer in the Australia-Indonesia dialogue, and the Capacity Building for Reconciling Divided Communities in Victoria project. With an academic background in Communication Media/Multimedia, Humanities Gender Sexuality and Cultural Studies and Anthropology, Monika is currently a PhD candidate at the Australian National University with an external affiliation to La Trobe University. Her thesis is on Indonesian migrants in Australia, with recent fieldwork in Perth WA looking at cultural performances in community and multicultural festivals.

In her research, she was also involved in an Indonesian women’s dance group whose majority members came by spousal visa. Monika's research interests include: migration, gender, cultural performance, political movements: motherhood and diasporic groups, media representation and identity formation. Monika had also assisted in research projects for various departments at the ANU (CHL, NCEPH, Humanities) and the University of Indonesia as well as being the Media Officer for the Indonesia Update Series.

Recent publications

Journal Articles

  • Winarnita, M. (2011). ‘Trying not to lose face: Indonesian migrant women dancers in Perth, Western Australia’. Intersections Gender and Sexuality in the Asia Pacific, special issue on Dance, Gender and the Moving Body in Oceania, Issue 27 (November 2011). Published online 1 December 2011.
  • Winarnita, M. (forthcoming 2011). ‘The politics of commemorating the May 1998 mass rapes’. RIMA: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, Issue 45 (1)
  • Winarnita, M. (2011). ‘Asian Women in Australian Soap Operas: Questioning Idealized Hybrid Representation’. Asian Social Science, 7 (8), pp. 3-11
  • Winarnita, M. (2008). ‘Motherhood as Cultural Citizenship – Indonesian women in transnational families’. TAPJA, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 9 (4) 2008 pp. 304 – 318
  • Winarnita, M. (2007). ‘From Mail Order Bride to Terrorist Strategy: How Portrayals of Indonesian Australian Marriages Affect Identity and Belonging’. The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations 7 (4), pp. 209-216

Conference Proceeding

  • Winarnita, M. (2008). ‘Commemoration and its limitations: the mass rapes of Chinese Indonesian women May 1998’, Proceedings of The 17th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), Monash Asia Institute, Monash University

Book Chapters

  • Winarnita, M. (2007). ‘The valued identity of 'motherhood' as strategically used by Indonesia's Suara Ibu Peduli’. Building Feminist Movements: Global perspectives. Eds Alpizar, L., Durán, A., and Russo Garrido, A. Zed Books Independent International Publishing, United Kingdom Chapter 21

Book Review

  • Winarnita, M. (2010). ‘Family, gender and kinship in Australia - The social and cultural logic of practice and subjectivity, by Allon J. Uhlmann’. Anthropological Forum 20 (2) pp. 167 - 214

Online Articles

International Conferences

  • Conference panel Co-Convenor & Chair, IUAES AAS ASAA Anthropology International Conference 2011 Australian Network of Student Anthropologist Travel Grant Recipient
  • International conference on Diversity, Community and Nations, Vreeilich Universitat, Amsterdam Netherlands 2007
  • Gender in Asia Graduate Student Conference, Faculty of Arts and Science, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts USA 2006
  • Journal Anthropology Indonesia Symposium, University of Indonesia, Jakarta 2005
  • Association for Women’s Rights in Development, International Forum 2005, Bangkok, Thailand. Honorarium recipient, travel grant recipient
  • Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Ewha University, Seoul, South Korea 2005. (Chair person) Ford Foundation conference travel grant recipient