「熟悉的陌生人：印尼都市裡的空間與種族」專書寫作計畫

Abstract

過去數年我持續研究印尼華裔與非華裔個體因互動而生的群我疆界，本計畫即希望統 整過去研究成果，將其改寫出版為一英文專書。學界普遍認為印尼人與華人間的緊張 肇因於兩個群體缺少互動。但受惠於歐美學界近年強調的文化遇合理論，我主張在群 我意識生產劃界的過程中，「接觸」與「距離」至少扮演同等重要意義。本書因此觀 察印華與非華裔個體在物理、社會、情感距離上高度接近的跨族群情境，企圖闡明文 化遇合到底如何生產認同。在方法上我深入家戶、社區圍籬、私家轎車等空間，探求 這些親密場域中物理、社會、與主體三個邊界間的複雜構連，藉此把握族裔邊界生成 的動態過程與當代意義。本計畫有三個具體的修改重心：首先，我將補充部分民族誌 段落，針對(1)印尼全國性反貪污政經改革(2)日益顯著的回教公共性(3)隔鄰亞齊省的重 建(4)棉蘭華裔從政者的地方政治參與等四大面向追蹤並更新從2005年至今的變化。其 次，我將寫作一個全新章節，闡明新自由主義下的空間治權如何在印尼城市裡控制身 體、情感、認同的流動並剖析其相應的族裔政治。最後，我將重新寫作全書導論，發 展一套以「親密劃界」為中心的理論語彙，為當代都市情境中微觀政治與宏觀政經脈 絡交叉影響下的族裔主體生成過程做出分析。

Based on my dissertation, I propose to write an ethnography of the everyday paradoxes and politics of race between Indonesian citizens of Chinese descent and their non-­‐Chinese counterparts, focusing specifically on the ways in which “Chinese Indonesians” are racialized and ethnicized at intimate spaces of interracial exchange in urban Indonesia. Concerned to eschew popular uncomplicated assertions of “Chineseness” in Indonesia and Southeast Asia in general as either a self-­‐proclaimed ethnic identity, a state-­‐imposed racial category or simply a class privilege, this manuscript introduces a new approach to understanding “Chinese Indonesian” as the product of a long historical process as well as everyday cross-­‐racial interactions through which Chinese cosmopolitan practices have gradually become congealed either in “diasporic” or “ethnic” spaces. It does so by examining the everyday politics of race and its intersection with class, ethnicity, nation, and gender formation in contexts such as the urban traffic flows, security industry, domestic service, as well as state administered displacement and programs of assimilation, finding in them a common formation of what this manuscript calls “intimate exclusion” that both produces and challenges ethno-­‐racial difference and hierarchy between the Chinese and the non-­‐Chinese in contemporary urban Indonesia. Besides rewriting and reorganizing my dissertation for the manuscript, I have identified three additional revision objectives: first, I will conduct a 1-­‐ month-­‐long follow-­‐up fieldwork research in Medan, Indonesia, with the goal of gathering the most up-­‐to-­‐date data for the aforementioned analysis. Second, I will write a new chapter, which addresses the way in which Chinese Indonesians interact with their non-­‐Chinese drivers and fellow Medan city dwellers in urban traffic flows that are increasingly reorganized under the neolibearl socio-­‐spatial regime. Finally, I will write a new introduction for the manuscript, with the aim of developing a fresh theoretical framework that considers inter-­‐racial intimacies and processes of exclusion as an entangled whole, thus allowing researchers to better get at the paradoxes and politics that the oxymoronic figurations of Chinese-­‐Indonesians (e.g. Prameodya Toer’s “strangers who are not foreign”) and overseas Chinese in general (e.g. Anthony Reid’s “essential outsiders”) currently seek to mediate, on the one hand, while on the other hand expanding feminist and postcolonial studies’ insights on the exercise of power in and through, rather than outside of, social intimacies.