Dr Annie Pohlman
Indonesian Discipline
ARC DECRA Research Fellow
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56786
Researcher biography
Annie Pohlman is Senior 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. She also works with human rights NGOs in Indonesia on the documentation of human rights abuses.
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How does torture become normal? Indonesia's New Order regime, 1965-1998 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award |
2017–2020 |
| School strategic research initiative - 'Places of Memory, Narrative and Trauma' and 'Visualizing Korea: From the late 19th Century to the present' |
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
Loney, Hannah and Pohlman, Annie (2020). The Sexual and Visual Dynamics of Torture: Analysing Atrocity Photographs from Indonesian-Occupied East Timor. In Katharine McGregor, Ana Dragojlovic and Hannah Loney (Ed.), Gender, Violence and Power in Indonesia: Across Time and Space (pp. 84-100) New York, NY United States: Routledge.
Wieringa, Saskia E., Melvin, Jess and Pohlman, Annie (2019). The Indonesian genocide and the international people’s tribunal for 1965. In Saskia E. Wieringa, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman (Ed.), The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide (pp. 1-21) New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429427763-1
Pohlman, Annie (2019). Sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, and forced marriage as crimes against humanity during the Indonesian killings of 1965-66. In Saskia E. Wieringa, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman (Ed.), The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian genocide (pp. 96-114) New York, United States: Routledge.
Wieringa, Saskia E., Melvin, Jess and Pohlman, Annie (2019). The Indonesian genocide and the International People's Tribunal for 1965. In Saskia E. Wieringa, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman (Ed.), The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian genocide (pp. 1-21) New York, United States: Routledge.
Pohlman, Annie (2019). Sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, and forced marriage as crimes against humanity during the Indonesian killings of 1965–66. In Saskia E. Wieringa, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman (Ed.), The international people’s tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian genocide (pp. 96-114) New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429427763-6
Pohlman, Annie (2019). Kekerasan seksual sebagai penyiksaan: Kejahatan terhadap umat manusia selama pembantaian 1965-66 di Indonesia. In Martijn Eickhoff, Gerry van Klinken and Geoffrey Robinson (Ed.), 1965 Pada Masa Kini: Hidup dengan Warisan Peristiwa Pembantaian Massal (pp. 231-262) Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Sanata Dharma University Press.
McGregor, Katharine, Melvin, Jess and Pohlman, Annie (2018). New interpretations of the causes, dynamics and legacies of the Indonesian genocide. In Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman (Ed.), The Indonesian genocide of 1965: causes, dynamics and legacies (pp. 1-26) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71455-4_1
Melvin, Jess and Pohlman, Annie (2018). A case for genocide: Indonesia, 1965-1966. In Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman (Ed.), The Indonesian genocide of 1965: causes, dynamics and legacies (pp. 27-46) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71455-4_2
Pohlman, Annie (2018). Two women's testimonies of sexual violence during the 1965-1966 Indonesian massacres. In Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman (Ed.), The Indonesian genocide of 1965: causes, dynamics and legacies (pp. 115-132) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71455-4_6
Evanty, Nukila and Pohlman, Annie (2018). After 1965: legal matters for justice?. In Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman (Ed.), The Indonesian genocide of 1965: causes, dynamics and legacies (pp. 311-334) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71455-4_16
Pohlman, Annie (2017). Finding a way: women's stories of daily survival after the 1965 killings in Indonesia. In Nikki Marczak and Kirril Shields (Ed.), Genocide perspectives V: a global crime, Australian voices (pp. 131-145) Sydney: University of Technology, Sydney, ePress. doi:10.5130/978-0-9945039-7-8
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.
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 (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. doi:10.4324/9780203380857
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.
Mayersen, Deborah and Pohlman, Annie (2013). Conclusion. In Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention (pp. 197-199) Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9780203380857
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
Narny, Yenny, Andoni, Yudhi, Herwandi, Herwandi and Pohlman, Annie (2019) Between sakit and schizophrenia in West Sumatra, Indonesia. SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 34 3: 491-520.
Pohlman, Annie (2019) Review of Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia, by Vannessa Hearman. Contemporary Southeast Asia, 41 1: 138-140. doi:10.1355/cs41-1g
Pohlman, Annie (2018) Book review: We Shall Bear Witness: Life Narratives and Human Rights. By Meg Jansen and Margaretta Jolly (eds.). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.. Oral History Review, 45 1: 173-176. doi:10.1093/ohr/ohy019
Pohlman, Annie (2017) Sexual violence as torture: crimes against humanity during the 1965-1966 killings in Indonesia. Journal of Genocide Research, 19 4: 574-593. doi:10.1080/14623528.2017.1393949
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, 33 14-19. 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) Explaining sexual violence. Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66, 36 63-78.
Pohlman, Annie (2015) Getting caught and being killed. Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66, 36 23-46.
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) Introduction. The massacres of 1965-1966: new interpretations and the current debate in Indonesia. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 32 3: 3-9.
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.
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) 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 (2013) Telling stories about torture in Indonesia: managing risk in a culture of impunity. Oral History Forum, 33 SI: 1-17.
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.