A5023307694- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Asian Studies and History
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Social and Economic Development in India
- Agricultural and Environmental Management
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Mining and Resource Management
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- History of Science and Medicine
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies
Brunel University of London
2019-2024
Abstract Tropical forests and peatlands provide important ecological, climate socio‐economic benefits from the local to global scale. However, these ecosystems their associated are threatened by anthropogenic activities, including agricultural conversion, timber harvesting, peatland drainage fire. Here, we identify key challenges, potential solutions future directions meet forest conservation restoration goals in Indonesia, with a particular focus on Kalimantan. Through round‐table,...
Abstract Interactions between conservation and the social sciences are frequently characterized by either critique (of scientists) or co‐optation scientific methods insights conservationists). This article seeks to push beyond these two dominant positions exploring how conservationists scientists can engage in mutually transformative dialogue. Jointly authored scientists, it uses global nexus of orangutan as a lens onto current challenges possibilities facing conservation–social science...
Abstract This paper contributes to the discourse on food policy, particularly in relation organic farming Indonesia. Organic was first adopted by non-state actors Indonesia, faith-based organisations and then small farmer associations, while state support for agriculture followed at a later date. The three groups, represented this study case studies, adopt different positions with regard definition of its relevance self-sufficiency, security sovereignty. For Bina Sarana Bhakti Foundation...
Abstract To better understand and address global human–environment crises, interdisciplinary collaborations across the natural social sciences have become increasingly common in conservation. Within such collaborations, question of scale can cause tensions: how to agree on unit measurement analysis? We contend there is value scrutinizing relationship between interdisciplinarity more closely. Drawing 2 research projects Indonesia that integrate cultural anthropology conservation biology, we...
ABSTRACT In an era of mass extinction, who gets a life jacket, is left to drown or swim—and on what basis? This article addresses these questions by analyzing how tropes and practices responsibility are variously enacted, reworked, contested, refused across the global nexus orangutan conservation. Drawing multisited, collaborative ethnography, we trace mutually constitutive relation between multiple figures commons imaginaries at different nodes conservation—from environmental activism in...
This paper offers an anthropological account of rattan (Calamoideae arecaceae) knowledge and its acquisition amongst Ngaju Dayak farmers in Katingan, Indonesian Borneo. Rattan is the generic term for a large complex group mostly climbing spiny palms, constituting world's most important non-timber agroforest product. Yet due to over-exploitation forest conversion, not only are natural stocks dwindling, but so too popular multiple uses. Following practice-oriented approach environmental...
In a time of unprecedented species loss, whose absence matters in international biodiversity conservation? Who or what is made absent this process, and how? Drawing on scholarship that focuses the agency absence, article explores how orangutan ( Pongo spp. )—a popular conservation flagship species—becomes present Bornean villagers' lives. It offers new understanding action by examining complex, often unseen relational dynamics through which orangutans influence community-conservation...
Abstract In a time of deepening social and ecological crises, the question research ethics is more pertinent than ever. Our intervention grapples with specific personal, ethical, methodological challenges that arise at interface conservation science. We expose these through figure Chris, fictional anonymised composite our fraught diverse fieldwork experiences in Australia, Burma, Indonesian Borneo, Namibia, Vanuatu. Fundamentally, we explore as series contested loyalties: loyalties to...
This paper intervenes in recent works that have put hope and affect at the heart of their analysis to study development dynamics, particularly exploitation mineral resources. Framing as a modality connecting with world, I explore how villagers affected by gold rush Indonesian Borneo constantly refined reworked dialogue human non-human others create an affective, corporeal, yet highly risky state conviviality. Guided my ethnography, develop concept conviviality capture contradictions involved...
Abstract The conservation sector increasingly values reflexivity, in which professionals critically reflect on the social, institutional and political aspects of their work. Reflexivity offers diverse benefits, from enhancing individual performance to driving transformation. However, integrating reflexivity into practice remains challenging is often confined informal reflections with limited impact. To overcome this challenge, we introduce co-reflexivity, offering an alternative binary...
Abstract This article examines the relationship between willful blindness and structures of blame by exploring how Ngaju Dayak villagers in Indonesia’s province Central Kalimantan deal with discourses, knowledge, politics that have emerged around region’s recurrent peat fires. Since these fires cause regional air pollution, detrimental health effects, tremendous economic costs, environmental impact on a global scale, search for fire villains takes center stage. However, as this shows, causes...