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Carla Jones鈥� research analyzes the cultural politics of appearance in urban Indonesia, with particular focus on femininity, domesticity, aesthetics and Islam.听 She has written extensively on self-improvement programs, manners and middle-class respectability during the Suharto and post-Suharto periods in Yogyakarta and Jakarta, and is the co-editor, with Ann Marie Leshkowich and Sandra Niessen, of听Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress听(Berg, 2003).听 Her current work situates anxieties about Islamic style in the context of broader debates about corruption and exposure. She is especially interested in the suspicions that settle on covered women in contemporary Indonesia, in which accusations of hypocrisy intersect with gendered assertions about revelation and propriety.

Jones was President of the听听from 2017-19.

In 2017, she co-edited a special section of the journal American Ethnologist, with Dr. Martin Slama, on social media and religion in Southeast Asia. From 2007-09, Jones was co-PI, with Professor Ruth Mas then of the Department of Religious Studies, of a six-person University of Colorado seed grant analyzing transnational conceptions of Islamic community.

In 2021, Jones led a team of colleagues in crafting听听for the American Anthropological Association designed to assist anthropologists mitigate the uneven effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Special interests include:听materiality, feminist theory, anthropology of middle classes, consumption and corruption.

Selected Publications:

• 2023听鈥淢aking an Appearance: Images, Frailty, and the Potency of Beauty in the Indonesian Modest Fashion Scene.鈥� In听. Bart Barendregt, David Kloos, Leonie Schmidt, and Mark Westmoreland, eds., pp. 165-193. Leiden: Leiden University Press
• 2021听 鈥�.鈥澨鼵yberOrient听15(1): 172-205听
• 鈥�2021听 Freeman, Carla and Carla Jones. 鈥�,鈥� edited by Lynn Bolles and Mary H. Moran,听American Ethnologist, May 24, 2021
• 2020听听听鈥�,鈥澨鼳merican Ethnologist,听May 20, 2020听
• 2020听 听"Gender." 鈥淢ary Steedly鈥檚 Anthropology of Modern Indonesia: A Collection of Keywords,鈥澨�滨苍诲辞苍别蝉颈补听109 (April): 45-59, Cornell Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University Press
• 2020听 "A Case for Agitation: On Affect and Writing." In Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment. Carole McGranahan, ed. Durham: Duke University Press
• 2019听听 Jones, Carla and Jennifer Wies. 2019. 鈥淔eminist Anthropology for Our Times." Anthropology News, August 26, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1243
• 2019听听 鈥淭he Globalization of Asian Dress: Re-Orienting Fashion or Re-Orientalizing Asia?" Ann Marie Leshkowich and Carla Jones. In The Anthropology of Fashion and Dress: A Reader. Pp. 295-310. Joanne Eicher and Brent Luvaas, eds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
• 2019听听 鈥淒ress for听Sukses: Fashioning Femininity and Nationality in Urban Indonesia.鈥� In The Anthropology of Fashion and Dress: A Reader. Pp. 209-218. Joanne Eicher and Brent Luvaas, eds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
• 2018听听 "Piety." In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Pp. 4631-33. Hilary Callan, ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
• 2018听听 "Stylish Ethics: Indonesian Modest Fashion and National Image." In Contemporary Muslim Fashions. Pp. 70-79, catalogue for Contemporary Muslim Fashions exhibit, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
• 2018听听 "Consumption and the New Middle Classes." In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia. Pp. 187-196. Robert Hefner, ed. London, UK and New York, USA: Routledge
• 2017 听 "," co-edited with Martin Slama,听American Ethnologist, November 8, 2017听
• 2017听听 "Images of Desire: Creating Virtue and Value in an Indonesian Islamic Lifestyle Magazine." In The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices. Pp. 213-221. Anna-Mari Almila and David Inglis, eds. London, UK and New York, USA: Routledge 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
• 2016听听 鈥淧ious Sight: Seeing Value as Rights in Java,鈥� Comment on Retsikas, Kostas, 鈥淭he Other Side of the Gift: Soliciting in Java.鈥� Heidelberg Ethnology Occasional Paper No. 4: 17-19, May 2016
• 2016听听 鈥淚mages of Desire: Creating Virtue and Value in an Indonesian Islamic Lifestyle Magazine.鈥� In Islam, Marketing and Consumption: Critical Perspectives on the Intersections. Pp. 102-122. Jafari, Aliakbar and 脰zlem Sandikci, eds. London, UK and New York, USA: Routledge
• 2013 听 听鈥�Wanita Karir听(Career Woman)." In Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity.
• 2012听听 "Gender Matters: the cultural politics of gender in Southeast Asia."听 Review article on the state of scholarship on gender in Southeast Asian area studies and of O鈥橲haughnessy, Kate (2009) Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia: Divorce and Marriage Law, Routledge, London and New York; Peletz, Michael, (2009) Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times, Routledge, London and New York; and Robinson, Kathryn (2009) Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia, Routledge, London and New York.听 Southeast Asia听Research 20(3):445-448
• 2012听听 鈥淲omen in the Middle: Femininity, Virtue, and Excess in Indonesian Discourses of Middle-Classness.鈥� In The Global Middle Classes: Theorizing Through Ethnography. Pp. 145-167. Rachel Heiman, Carla Freeman, and Mark Liechty, eds. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press
• 2011 听 鈥淭ransnational Discourses of Islamic Community.鈥� Carla Jones and Ruth Mas. Co-edited special issue on transnational Islam, Nations and Nationalism 17(1):2-6, January 2011
• 2010: 鈥淢aterializing Piety: Gendered Anxieties about Faithful Consumption in Contemporary Urban Indonesia.鈥澨鼳merican Ethnologist听37(4):617-637.
• 2010: 鈥淚mages of Desire: Creating Virtue and Value in an Indonesian Islamic Fashion Magazine.鈥澨齁ournal of Middle East Women鈥檚 Studies听6(3):91-117, Fall 2010.
• 2010: 鈥淏etter Women: The Cultural Politics of Gendered Expertise in Indonesia.鈥澨鼳merican Anthropologist听112(2):270-282.
• 2009: Wanita Karir: Figures of Indonesian Modernity. Joshua Barker and Johan Lindquist, et al.听 Indonesia 87: 35-72.
• 2007: Fashion and Faith in Urban Indonesia.听Fashion Theory听11(2/3): 211-232.听PDF
• 2004: Whose Stress? Emotion Work in Middle-Class Javanese Homes.听Ethnos听69(4): 509-528.听PDF
• 2003: 鈥淚ntroduction: The Globalization of Asian Dress: Re-Orienting Fashion or Re-Orientalizing Asia?,鈥� Carla Jones and Ann Marie Leshkowich. In Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress. Oxford: Berg Press, pp. 1-48.听PDF
• 2003: Dress for听Sukses:听Fashioning Femininity and Nationality in Urban Indonesia. In听Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress.听Oxford: Berg Press, pp. 185-214.听PDF
• 2003: What Happens When Asian Chic Becomes Chic in Asia? (co-authored with A.M. Leshkowich)听Fashion Theory听7(3/4):281-300.听PDF

Book Reviews:

• 2020 Review of Alessandra Lopez y Royo (2020)听Contemporary Indonesian Fashion: Through the Looking Glass. London and New York: Bloomsbury.听Archipel:听脡tudes interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien听99: 286-89听
• 2019 Review of Smith-Hefner, Nancy (2019) Islamizing Intimacy: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai鈥檌 Press. The Journal of Asian Studies
• 2019 听 Review of Kloos, David (2018) Becoming Better Muslims: Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
• 2018听听 Review of Lee, Doreen (2016) Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia. Durham: Duke University Press. Indonesia 105:211-213
• 2018听听 Review of Freeman, Carla (2014)听听Durham: Duke University Press. Association for Feminist Anthropology book reviews, published March 14
• 2015听听 Review of Lewis, Reina, ed. (2013) Modest Fashion: Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. International Journal of Fashion Studies 2(2):340-342
• 2015听听 Review of Rinaldo, Rachel (2013) Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia. New York: Oxford University Press. Pacific Affairs 88(3)744-746, September 2015
• 2012听听 Review of Davies, Sharyn. (2010) Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves. London and New York: Routledge. Asian Studies Review 36(4):585-586
• 2011听听 Review of Rudnyckyj, Daromir. (2010) Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization and the Afterlife of Development. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. American Ethnologist 38(4):846-847
• 2011听听 Review of Lim, Francis Khek Gee, ed. (2009) Mediating Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia. Leiden: Brill. Religion 4(2):299-303
• 2010听听 Review of Fischer, Johan (2008) Proper Islamic Consumption: Shopping among the Malays in Modern Malaysia. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. American Ethnologist听37(1):180-181
• 2009听 Review of Newberry, Jan (2006) Back Door Java: State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java. Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press. The Journal of Asian Studies 68(4):1345-1347
• 2008听听 Review of Brewer, John and Frank Trentmann, eds. (2006) Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges. Oxford: Berg. American Anthropologist 110(3):384-385听
• 2007听听 Review of Gade, Anna (2004) Perfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited Qur鈥檃n in Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press American Anthropologist听109(4):765
• 2007听听 Review of Boellstorff, Tom (2005) The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Journal of Asian Studies 66(4):1217-1220