Human-environment relations and politics in Indonesia : conflicting ecologies / Kristina Großmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossmann, Kristina, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Modern anthropology of South-East Asia

The modern anthropology of Southeast Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Indonesia--Kalimantan Barat.

Human ecology.

Dayak (Bornean people).

Ecology.

Kalimantan Barat (Indonesia)--Environmental conditions.

Kalimantan Barat (Indonesia).

Indonesia--Kalimantan Barat.

Physical Description:

xi, 183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"This book analyses how people in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, relate to their environment in different political and historical contexts. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic studies of Dayak people, the indigenous inhabitants of Borneo, the book examines how human-environment relationships differ and collide. These "conflicting ecologies" are based on people's relation to the "environment", which encompasses the non-human realm in the widest sense, including forests, rivers, land, natural resources, animals and spirits. The author argues that relationality and power are decisive factors for the understanding and analysis of peoples' ecologies. The book integrates different theoretical approaches, sheds light upon the environmental transformation taking place in Indonesia, as well as the social exclusion it entails, and highlights the conceptual shortcomings of universalistic concepts of human-environment relations. An exploration of evolving human-nature relations, this book will be of interest to academics studying political ecology, environmental anthropology, sustainability sciences, political sciences, development studies, human geography, human ecology, Southeast Asian studies, and Asian studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Conceptualizing conflicting ecologies

Historical legacies : politicized and ethnicized forests and the strengthening of Adat

Forests, rivers and the relational ecology of sharing

Conflicting ecologies of Gaharu

Coal mining and the resource-based ecology of detachment

Conflicting ecologies of land

Concluding remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780367770662

0367770660

9781032009407

1032009403

OCLC:

1248602151

Publisher Number:

99990015988