Ana Dragojlovic is a Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, and in the Practical Justice Initiative, UNSW Australia.

This ethnography explores how Balinese citizens produce a postcolonial intimacy a complex interaction of claims to proximity and mutuality between themselves and the Dutch under colonialism that continuing today. Such claims, Ana Dragojlovic explains, are crucial for the diasporic reconfiguration of kebalian, or Balinese-ness, a concept that encompasses the personal, social, and cultural complexities involved in Balinese identity in Dutch postcolonial society. This identity enables Balinese migrants to see themselves as carriers of unique cultural traditions both promoted by and in...

This book is a critical response to a range of problems, some theoretical, others empirical, that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering.