Thajib TF (2017)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2017
Book Volume: 25
Pages Range: 127-135
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2016.11.007
This article explores the unfolding of affective constellations and emotive orientations of Muslim sexual minorities and transgender people as they deal with different aspects of Islam in the spheres of everyday life. Based on ethnographic research with Muslim queers in Indonesia, the article delineates a landscape of affective practices that is rife with ambivalence. Raymond Williams’ (1977) notion of ‘structures of feeling’ is utilised as an analytical frame to elaborate the expressions and circulations of affect that are not readily captured into a semantic pattern. The deployment of the emotionally charged narratives by the protagonists mainly involves the affective intensities in their experience of cultivating faith amidst constant risks of failure in reproducing religious norms. Three clusters of scenes are foregrounded: how the actors emotively interact with the heteronormative interpellation of religious doctrines; their subjective engagement with spiritual forces; and their experiences of bodily feelings in inhabiting piety and sexuality. Operating through a kaleidoscopic flow, the pairings between the discursive scenes and the articulated feelings of Muslim queers reveal a process of becoming an affective community, which is not only shaped by the distribution of individual affective practices along distinct relation with space and time, but also realised through a commonality in ways of feeling differently.
APA:
Thajib, T.F. (2017). Kaleidoscopic feelings: Faith narratives among Indonesian Muslim Queers. Emotion, Space and Society, 25, 127-135. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2016.11.007
MLA:
Thajib, Teuku Ferdiansyah. "Kaleidoscopic feelings: Faith narratives among Indonesian Muslim Queers." Emotion, Space and Society 25 (2017): 127-135.
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