I was elected as Evans Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge for the period of 2021/2022. The Fellowship is funded to anthropologists working in Southeast Asia, and includes a stipend for fieldwork and travel to the University of Cambridge.
The project forms part of ongoing research about the influence of sexual morality on HIV data collection in Indonesia which focuses on the category “MSM” (men who have sex with men). The urgency of this topic lies in recent moves by the Indonesian state to enforce marital heterosexuality and a concurrent push to collect more data about HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). The research contributes to medical anthropology and science and technology studies in focusing its attention to the “infrastructures” through which categories are sustained and made as much as to the subjective life worlds of individuals.
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