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FIB Weekly Forum: Nature and Identity, Dayak Movements Within the Context of Ecological Conflicts in West-Kalimantan

AGENDA Senin, 15 Desember 2014

16 Desember 2014
Ruang Sidang 1 FIB UGM – Pukul 09.00

Pemateri: Timo Markus Duile
(PhD Candidate, University of Bonn, Germany)

Judul:
“Nature and Identity: Dayak movements within the context of ecological conflicts in West-Kalimantan”

Moderator:
Mark Philip Stadler, MA, MSc
(PhD Fellow at Asian Dynamics Initiative, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen)

Nature in the Indonesian province of West-Kalimantan is contested in at least two ways: First, it is contested as a resource, especially since palm oil plantations found their way into West-Kalimantan and capital seeks for new strategies of accumulation in this part of the Indonesian periphery. A massive loss of forest and an accumulation of land in the hands of palm oil companies since the 80s are the result. Secondly, nature is contested in a discoursive-symbolic way: Actors are arguing about the very meaning of nature. The hegemonic meaning of nature that takes nature as an ensemble of resources and as the opposition of human society is challenged by indigenous actors like AMAN or the Pontianak-based Institut Dayakologi.
Alternative interpretations of nature became an important source for neo-traditional Dayak identity, since these interpretations helps indigenous activists to distinguish themselves from their constitutive outside, that are, the state of Indonesia as a neo-extractivist regime, palm oil companies and modernity with its premises of the distinction between nature and culture.
How do indigenous actors, then, conceptualize nature in contrast to hegemonic perceptions of nature and how can these conceptualization challenge ownership structures and strengthen traditional identities? Referring to Phlippe Descola’s ontological concept of animism and naturalism, indigenous activist’s concepts of nature are analyzed and it will be discussed whether their draft of nature and identity can challenge the threats indigenous societies are confronted with.

FIB Weekly Forum: Exploring Heritage Movements in Yogyakarta”

AGENDA Rabu, 10 Desember 2014

FIB Weekly Forum

11 Desember 2014
Ruang Sidang 1 FIB UGM – Pukul 13.00

Pemateri: Dr. Tod Jones
(Curtin University Australia)

Judul:
“Gerakan Warisan Budaya di Yogyakarta – Exploring Heritage Movements in Yogyakarta”

Abstrak:
In the last decade, movements have coalesced across Asia aimed at collective challenges (to elites, authorities or cultural codes) by people with a common purpose and solidarity to protect and conserve heritage. Many of these heritage movements have now risen to prominence at the national scale. However, these movements have for the most part escaped the attention of heritage researchers for two reasons. First, heritage politics researchers have a preference for a site or group case study approach that, while rich in thick description, does not often analyse the internal dynamics and politics of heritage movements. Second, the concerning tendency in the cannon of heritage research to characterise such movements as amateur, antiquarian and nostalgic (Davison, 2000; Hewison, 1987) took the focus of researchers away from the practices of these movements, and researchers have only slowly returned to this topic. This paper provides an account and analysis of the dynamics of heritage movements in Central Java, Indonesia with the two goals of developing an understanding of the reasons heritage movements have grown in prominence in Indonesia, and developing a toolset for heritage movement analysis. In particular, I seek to explore the importance of the political changes in Indonesia and Central Java/Yogyakarta through adapting the concept of Political Opportunity Structures, Collective Action Frames and Transnational Advocacy Networks from social movement theory. The focus of the paper will therefore be on how the internal dynamics of the heritage movement, their relationship with political elites and other groups, and external political circumstances relate to conservation politics.

Dr. Tod Jones adalah Dosen Senior pada jurusan Geografi Universitas Curtin Australia, Faculty of Humanities.