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Human-Environment Relations and Politics in Indonesia - Conflicting Ecologies (Hardcover)
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Human-Environment Relations and Politics in Indonesia - Conflicting Ecologies (Hardcover)
Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
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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 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.
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