| Abstrakt: |
Spatial governance is never a neutral, technocratic intervention, but an exercise of power that determines how a particular space is defined, organised and regulated, and whose interests are served best. In this paper, I show how the legal production of spatial governance in Bali provides legitimacy for capital investments and how such production is contested by social forces whose interests are affected. In so doing, I will primarily focus on the case of the resort development project owned by Tomy Winata, a powerful tycoon, in Benoa Bay, Bali. I argue that the alliance of elites - national/local, economic/politicobureaucrat - has been able to deploy the state law governing spatial planning for the Benoa Bay space to support the project, but that they have not succeeded in convincing local communities to abandon their resistance. In fact, local communities have engineered religious rulings and customary law as new legal resources to support their stance against the state-backed project showing how law can be mobilised by contending parties in social conflicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
