Shifting cultivation, contentious land change and forest governance: the politics of swidden in East Kalimantan
| Autor: | C.A.M. Anandi, Gregory M. Thaler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cultural Studies
Land use Agroforestry Corporate governance 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Land management 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Livelihood Shifting cultivation Politics Geography Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Environmental governance Deforestation Anthropology 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Peasant Studies. 44:1066-1087 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9361 0306-6150 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03066150.2016.1243531 |
| Popis: | Swidden has historically been one of the most widespread land uses in upland Southeast Asia. In recent decades, swidden systems across the region have undergone rapid transformation. While most analyses focus on swidden as a livelihood practice, we direct attention to the political nature of swidden. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork and household surveys from two villages in East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia, we examine the politics of swidden along two key dimensions. First, at the household level, we describe swidden as a land control strategy. We identify territorialization and speculation as drivers of ‘contentious land change’ in swidden systems under pressure from expanding plantations and mines. Second, at the village and district levels, we examine the politics of swidden within new forest governance arrangements. Control of swidden has provided a focus for multi-stakeholder forest governance, but with ambivalent effects, developing village land management and livelihoods at a cost of temporary ... |
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