Overview
Background
Annie Pohlman is an Associate Professor in Indonesian Studies at The School of Languages and Cultures, St Lucia campus, UQ. Her research interests include Indonesian history and politics, comparative genocide studies, torture, gendered experiences of violence, and testimony studies. She also works with human rights NGOs in Indonesia on the documentation of human rights abuses.
Availability
- Associate Professor Annie Pohlman is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Indonesian Studies
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Indonesian politics
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Genocide
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Indonesian history
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Torture
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Sexual Violence
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Perpetrators of mass violence and atrocity
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Complicity in mass violence and atrocity
Research impacts
Indonesia faces the critical challenge of how to deal with its entrenched culture of impunity for past--and ongoing--mass atrocities and other gross human rights violations. The impact of Pohlman's research relates to her investigation and documentation of gross violations in the Indonesian past, and their ongoing practices.
Works
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2017
Book Chapter
Finding a way: women's stories of daily survival after the 1965 killings in Indonesia
Pohlman, Annie (2017). Finding a way: women's stories of daily survival after the 1965 killings in Indonesia. Genocide perspectives V: a global crime, Australian voices. (pp. 131-145) edited by Nikki Marczak and Kirril Shields. Sydney: University of Technology, Sydney, ePress. doi: 10.5130/978-0-9945039-7-8.j
2016
Journal Article
The spectre of Communist women, sexual violence and citizenship in Indonesia
Pohlman, Annie (2016). The spectre of Communist women, sexual violence and citizenship in Indonesia. Sexualities, 20 (1-2), 196-211. doi: 10.1177/1363460716645789
2016
Journal Article
A year of truth and the possibilities for reconciliation in Indonesia
Pohlman, Annie (2016). A year of truth and the possibilities for reconciliation in Indonesia. Genocide Studies and Prevention, 10 (1), 60-78. doi: 10.5038/1911-9933.10.1.1323
2016
Book Chapter
Indonesia and the UN Genocide Convention: the empty promises of human rights ritualism
Pohlman, Annie (2016). Indonesia and the UN Genocide Convention: the empty promises of human rights ritualism. The United Nations and genocide. (pp. 123-145) edited by Deborah Mayersen. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
2016
Book Chapter
Sexualised bodies, public mutilation and torture at the beginning of Indonesia's New Order Regime (1965-1966)
Pohlman, Annie (2016). Sexualised bodies, public mutilation and torture at the beginning of Indonesia's New Order Regime (1965-1966). Gender violence in peace and war: states of complicity. (pp. 116-129) edited by Victoria Sanford, Katerina Stefatos and Cecilia M. Salvi. New Brunswick, NJ, United States: Rutgers University Press.
2016
Journal Article
Janda PKI: stigma and sexual violence against communist widows following the 1965-1966 massacres in Indonesia
Pohlman, Annie (2016). Janda PKI: stigma and sexual violence against communist widows following the 1965-1966 massacres in Indonesia. Indonesia and the Malay World, 44 (128), 68-83. doi: 10.1080/13639811.2015.1100873
2015
Other Outputs
Evidence Brief: Sexual Violence [Evidence Brief for the Prosecutor, International People's Tribunal on Crimes against Humanity in Indonesia 1965-66]
Pohlman, Annie (2015). Evidence Brief: Sexual Violence [Evidence Brief for the Prosecutor, International People's Tribunal on Crimes against Humanity in Indonesia 1965-66]. The Hague, The Netherlands: International People's Tribunal for 1965.
2015
Journal Article
Film review: the act of killing
Annie Pohlman (2015). Film review: the act of killing. Genocide Studies and Prevention, 9 (2), 131-134. doi: 10.5038/1911-9933.9.2.1356
2015
Book
Women, sexual violence and the Indonesian killings of 1965-66
Pohlman, Annie (2015). Women, sexual violence and the Indonesian killings of 1965-66. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315818795
2015
Journal Article
Explaining sexual violence
Pohlman, Annie (2015). Explaining sexual violence. Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66, 36, 63-78.
2015
Journal Article
Indonesia: a love story
Pohlman, Annie (2015). Indonesia: a love story. Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 48 (2), 11-16.
2015
Journal Article
Getting caught and being killed
Pohlman, Annie (2015). Getting caught and being killed. Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66, 36, 23-46.
2014
Journal Article
Incitement to genocide against a political group: the anti-communist killings in Indonesia
Pohlman, Annie (2014). Incitement to genocide against a political group: the anti-communist killings in Indonesia. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 11 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.5130/portal.v11i1.3292
2014
Journal Article
Stigma and exclusion in cross-cultural contexts
Pohlman, Annie, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Jamarani, Maryam (2014). Stigma and exclusion in cross-cultural contexts. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 11 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.5130/portal.v11i1.3749
2013
Journal Article
Introduction: confronting mass atrocities in oral historical practice
Jessee, Erin and Pohlman, Annie (2013). Introduction: confronting mass atrocities in oral historical practice. Oral History Forum, 33 (Special Issue 2), 1-6.
2013
Journal Article
Telling stories about torture in Indonesia: managing risk in a culture of impunity
Pohlman, Annie (2013). Telling stories about torture in Indonesia: managing risk in a culture of impunity. Oral History Forum, 33 (SI), 1-17.
2013
Journal Article
Documentation: reports by human rights and victim advocacy organisations in Indonesia: reconciling the violence of 1965
Pohlman, Annie (2013). Documentation: reports by human rights and victim advocacy organisations in Indonesia: reconciling the violence of 1965. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 32 (3), 143-165.
2013
Book Chapter
An ongoing legacy of atrocity: torture and the Indonesian state
Pohlman, Annie (2013). An ongoing legacy of atrocity: torture and the Indonesian state. Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention. (pp. 35-52) edited by Deborah Mayersen and Annie Pohlman. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203380857
2013
Journal Article
Child-raising, childbirth and abortion in extremis: women's stories of caring for and losing children during the violence of 1965-1966 in Indonesia
Pohlman, Annie (2013). Child-raising, childbirth and abortion in extremis: women's stories of caring for and losing children during the violence of 1965-1966 in Indonesia. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 32 (3), 93-114. doi: 10.1177/186810341303200305
2013
Book Chapter
Conclusion
Mayersen, Deborah and Pohlman, Annie (2013). Conclusion. Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention. (pp. 197-199) Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780203380857
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor Annie Pohlman is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Indonesian history and politics
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Comparative genocide studies
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sexual violence, particularly as part of mass violence
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Torture
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Southeast Asian history
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Indonesian history and politics
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Comparative genocide studies
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sexual violence, particularly as part of mass violence
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Torture
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Southeast Asian history
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Mixed qualitative and quantitative mapping of mass violence
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Complicity in, and perpetration of, mass violence and atrocity
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Women, trauma, and memory writing in post-New Order Indonesian novels
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amy Hubbell
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Doctor Philosophy
Approaching Lives in the Aftermath: Journalism and the Empathetic Representation of Bosnian Muslim Male Testimonies of Life After the Concentration Camps
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Illegitimate Children of Dutch Colonialism in Indonesia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amy Hubbell
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Doctor Philosophy
The Illegitimate Children of Dutch Colonialism in the Dutch East Indies
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amy Hubbell
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Doctor Philosophy
A Political Biography of Sumitro Djojohadikusumo: Power and Influence in the Political Development of Modern Indonesia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Robert Elson
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Doctor Philosophy
Illegitimate Children of Dutch Colonialism in Indonesia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amy Hubbell
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Doctor Philosophy
Legal quotas, Islam and women's substantive representation: A case study of Indonesia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Nicole George
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Master Philosophy
From Reactive to Proactive Shaping The Future of Teacher Professional Learning
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Ravinder Sidhu
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Master Philosophy
From Reactive to Proactive Shaping The Future of Teacher Professional Learning
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Ravinder Sidhu
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Approaching Lives in the Aftermath: Journalism and the Empathetic Representation of Bosnian Muslim Male Testimonies of Life After the Concentration Camps
Principal Advisor
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
The Psychological Perspectives of Civilians and Civilian Perpetrators of the May 1998 Riots in Indonesia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Winnifred Louis
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
A complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) study among clinical psychologists in Indonesia using mixed-methods design
Associate Advisor
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