1st Edition
Human–Environment Relations and Politics in Indonesia Conflicting Ecologies
By Kristina Großmann
Copyright 2022
196 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Conceptualizing Conflicting Ecologies 3. Historical Legacies: Politicized and Ethnicized Forests and the Strengthening of Adat 4. Forests, Rivers and the Relational Ecology of Sharing 5. Conflicting Ecologies of Gaharu 6. Coal Mining and the Resource-Based Ecology of Detachment 7. Conflicting Ecologies of Land 8. Concluding Remarks
Biography
Kristina Großmann is Professor for Anthropology of Southeast Asia at the University of Bonn, Germany.
