Dr Annie Pohlman
Indonesian Discipline
Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56786
Researcher biography
Annie Pohlman is Lecturer 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.
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How does torture become normal? Indonesia's New Order regime, 1965-1998 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award |
2017–2020 |
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Publications
Book
Pohlman, Annie Women, sexual violence and the Indonesian killings of 1965-66. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2015. doi:10.4324/9781315818795
Book Chapters
Pohlman, Annie (2016). Sexualised bodies, public mutilation and torture at the beginning of Indonesia's New Order Regime (1965-1966). In Victoria Sanford, Katerina Stefatos and Cecilia M. Salvi (Ed.), Gender violence in peace and war: states of complicity (pp. 116-129) New Brunswick, NJ, United States: Rutgers University Press.
Pohlman, Annie (2016). Indonesia and the UN Genocide Convention: the empty promises of human rights ritualism. In Deborah Mayersen (Ed.), The United Nations and genocide (pp. 123-145) London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mayersen, Deborah and Pohlman, Annie (2013). Introduction. In Deborah Mayersen and Annie Pohlman (Ed.), Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention (pp. 1-31) Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Pohlman, Annie (2013). An ongoing legacy of atrocity: torture and the Indonesian state. In Deborah Mayersen and Annie Pohlman (Ed.), Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention (pp. 35-52) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Pohlman, Annie (2012). Spectacular atrocities: Making enemies during the 1965-1966 massacres in Indonesia. In Philip G. Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan (Ed.), Theatres of violence: Massacre, mass killing and atrocity in history (pp. 199-212) New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books.
Journal Articles
Liem, Andrian, Newcombe, Peter A. and Pohlman, Annie (2017) Evaluation of Complementary-Alternative Medicine (CAM) questionnaire development for Indonesian clinical psychologists: a pilot study. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, . doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2017.05.003
Pohlman, Annie (2016) The spectre of Communist women, sexual violence and citizenship in Indonesia. Sexualities, 20 1-2: 196-211. doi:10.1177/1363460716645789
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
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
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
Pohlman, Annie (2015) Indonesia: a love story. Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 48 2: 11-16.
Pohlman, Annie (2015) Getting caught and being killed. Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66, 36 23-46.
Pohlman, Annie (2015) Explaining sexual violence. Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66, 36 63-78.
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
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
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.
Pohlman, Annie (2013) Introduction. The massacres of 1965-1966: new interpretations and the current debate in Indonesia. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 32 3: 3-9.
Jessee, Erin and Pohlman, Annie (2013) Introduction: confronting mass atrocities in oral historical practice. Oral History Forum, 33 Special Issue 2: 1-6.
Pohlman, Annie (2013) Telling stories about torture in Indonesia: managing risk in a culture of impunity. Oral History Forum, 33 SI: 1-17.
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.
Pohlman, Annie (2008) Testimonio and telling women's narratives of genocide, torture and political imprisonment in post-Suharto Indonesia. Life Writing, 5 1: 47-60. doi:10.1080/14484520801902332
Pohlman, Annie (2005) (Book review) Wife or Worker? Asian Women and Migration. Asian Studies Review, 29 1: 106-106. doi:10.1080/10357820500139489
Pohlman, Anne (2004) A fragment of a story: Gerwani and Tapol experiences. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, 1 10: .
Pohlman, A. (2004) Review of Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett (eds), Violence Against Women in Asian Societies (London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003). Asian Studies Review, 28 3: 343-344.
Conference Papers
Pohlman, Annie (2010). Preventing future mass atrocities in Indonesia: Implementing the responsibility to protect within a culture of impunity. In: Elizabeth Morrell and Michael D. Barr, Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the ASAA - Crises and opportunities: Past, present and future. 18th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Adelaide, S.A., Australia, (). 5-8 July 2010.
Pohlman, A. (2004). Women and the Indonesian killings of 1965-1966: Gender variables and possible directions for research. In: R. Cribb and L. Edwards et al., Asia Examined: Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 2004. Asia Examined, Canberra, (1-12). 29 June - 2 July 2004.
Thesis
Anne Pohlman (2011). Ashes in My Mouth: Women, Violence and Testimony during the Indonesian Massacres of 1965-1966 PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comp Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland.