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Material Interventions: Indonesian DIY Fashion and the Regime of the Global Brand: Supplemental Material

By Ali Kenner

This post builds on the research article “Material Interventions: Indonesian DIY Fashion and the Regime of the Global Brand,” which was published in the February 2013 issue of the Society’s peer-reviewed journal, Cultural Anthropology.

Brent Luvaas, "Silkscreening T-shirts at Burgerkill’s studios, Bandung, Indonesia."

Editorial Footnotes

Cultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on labor dynamics in neoliberal contexts, including Alexander Dent's "Piracy, Circulatory Legitimacy, and Neoliberal Subjectivity in Brazil" (2012), Andrea Muelebach's "On Affective Labor in Post-Fordist Italy" (2011), Ahmed Kanna's "Flexible Citizenship in Dubai: Neoliberal Subjectivity in the Emerging “City-Corporation” (2010).

Cultural Anthropology has also published articles on Indonesia. See for example, Brent Luvaas's "Dislocating Sounds: The Deterritorialization of Indonesian Indie Pop" (2009), Karen Strassler's “The Face of Money: Currency, Crisis, and Remediation in Post-Suharto Indonesia” (2009), Nil Bubandt's “From the Enemy's Point of View: Violence, Empathy, and the Ethnography of Fakes” (2009), and Kenneth George's "Ethics, Iconoclasm, and Qur'anic Art in Indonesia" (2009).

Brent Luvaas, "Silkscreening T-shirts at Burgerkill’s studios, Bandung, Indonesia."
Brent Luvaas, "Sifting through clothes at KICKfest 2010, Bandung, Indonesia."

Links

Unkl347

Anonim Wardrobe's Facebook page

Indonesian Independent Clothing Association's Twitter

Kreative Independent Clothing Kommunity's (KICK) Twitter

Red and White Magz, a Facebook page/online magazine promoting various Indonesian DIY and indie brands

The Goods Dept website, a Jakarta store promoting upmarket independent brands

White Board Journal, a Jakarta website that features frequent articles on indie/DIY fashion

Brent Luvaas, "Eat347’s distro (prior to their name change), Jl Trunojoyo, Bandung, Indonesia."
Brent Luvaas, "KICKfest, the largest exposition of Indonesian indie/DIY clothing, Bandung, Indonesia."
Brent Luvaas, "Unkl347’s distro (after the name change), Jl Trunojoyo, Bandung, Indonesia."
Brent Luvaas, "Anonim Wardrobe’s, Jl Trunojoyo, Bandung, Indonesia."
Brent Luvaas, "Inside Unkl347’s workspace/office, Bandung, Indonesia."
Brent Luvaas, "Unkl347’s play on the PIL logo."
Brent Luvaas, "Unkl347’s play on the Polaroid logo."
Brent Luvaas, "A magazine advertisement for Unkl347, featuring the author’s own legs."

Additional Reading

Luvaas, Brent (2012) DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Cultures. London and New York: Berg Publishers.

Luvaas, Brent (2010) "Designer Vandalism: Indonesian Indie Fashion and the Cultural Practice of Cut 'n' Paste," in Visual Anthropology Review 26(1): 1-16.

Uttu (2006) "Distro: Independent Fashion Moves from Margins to Mainstream," in Inside Indonesia Jan-March 2006.

Wallach, Jeremy (2003) "'Goodbye My Blind Majesty': Music, Language, and Politics in the Indonesian Underground," in Global Pop, Local Language, Harris M. Berger and Michael Thomas Carroll, eds. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press: 53-86.