Indonesia
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Seeing agricultural life from spaces of struggle, death and resurgence
CASAS’ members Huiying Ng & Dimas D. Laksmana have published this article with Christina Maria Cecilia M. Sayson in “Grassroots. Journal of Political Ecology”. Abstract: This visual essay offers a closer look at the relations shaping nature’s transformation into a commodity. By tracing reproductive relations of struggle, death, and resurgence, we underscore how commodity production…
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Talking Indonesia: Indonesian ecological thinking
CASAS’ member Fathun Karib has been interviewed by Jemma Purdey, Elisabeth Kramer, Tito Ambyo, Jacqui Baker, and Clara Siagian for Indonesia at Melbourne about a recent book. Bacaan Bumi is a book that emerged from conversations sparked by a groundbreaking summer school on critical environmental history at Gadjah Mada University—Indonesia’s first university program of its…
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Epistemic Erasure in Participatory Research
CASAS’ member Dimas D Laksmana has published this chapter in the book “Revisiting Reflexivity Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond”. Abstract: Why is reflexivity needed to transform coloniality in participatory research? In this chapter I critically reflect on my shifting positionalities as an Indonesian field researcher and a doctoral researcher in Germany to argue that…
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Subsumption of Landscape under Capital: Extended Urbanisation at the Location of Indonesia’s New Capital City
CASAS’ member, Bosman Batubara has published this article in Capitalism Nature Socialism. Abstract: This article uses value-based analysis to examine how landscape is subsumed under capital in Indonesia’s new capital city. It identifies three distinct yet interrelated phases which show the deepening processes of landscape subsumption under capital. First, on the basis of cutting down…