A Lounela
Biographic Data
| ID | 37914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Lounela |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lounela |
| SIGNATURE | LOUNELA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8903-1983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands
In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices. It explores how indigenous Ngaju Dayak people aim to achieve a good life and how hope takes shape in the current context of agrarian change. The article argues…
Haunting the Factory
This article explores enchantments accompanying industrial development and the national discourse of modernity in the ecologically fragile swamp landscape of Central Kalimantan, situated in the southern part of Indonesian Borneo. Focusing on the experiences of the Ngaju Dayak, a local indigenous group, and mass-mediated narratives on enchantments of (national) development, we explore the promises and anxieties of the modern industrial schemes tha…
Making Wetlands Agricultural Landscapes
In this essay, I examine the 'politics of infrastructure' by looking at the sociomaterial connections and disconnections, and the implications of wetland infrastructure promises and failures in Central Kalimantan (Anand et al. 2018; Harvey et al. 2017; Venkatesan et al. 2018
Forum
It was Europe's wake up call: the news reported that a huge gas pipeline running across the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany had exploded (Oltermann 2022). The explosion caused a release of gas and ruptured the pipeline, abruptly stopping the flow of gas. In the aftermath of the Russian attack and war on Ukraine, we have seen time and again how infrastructure becomes the main stage for power struggles and politics (infrastructure destroyed for v…
How do civil society organizations influence climate change politics? Evidence from India, Indonesia, and Finland
In this article, the efforts of civil society organizations to influence climate change policymaking in three countries with very different traditions of democratic decision making are compared: in a newly developed democracy (Indonesia), in an established democracy in the Global South (India), and in an established democracy in the Global North with an exceptionally strong civil society (Finland). The empirical material consists of 57 in-depth i…
Making and Unmaking Territories with Plants in the Riverine Peat Landscape of Central Kalimantan
Central Kalimantan, located on the Indonesian side of Borneo, has often been described as a state frontier area where rapid changes take place in legal and administrative regimes and in the rules that govern access and ownership to land and nature. Today, frontier development includes state and non-state actors that bring natural resource projects aimed at producing long-term effects by engaging local people in the commodification of nature. Loca…
Shifting Valuations of Sociality and the Riverine Environment in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
This article explores how changing environmental conditions and practices connect with shifting forms and valuations of sociality in a Ngaju Dayak village in the radically transformed peatlands of southern Borneo. It proposes that the production of values and social relations is indivisible from the production of a livelihood through material means and dwelling in the local environment. The article describes how changing Ngaju orientations to soc…
Contested values and climate change mitigation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Climate change mitigation pilot projects (REDD+ – Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) affect and interact with the local population in Central Kalimantan and many other parts of Indonesia. Rather than being politically and economically neutral activities, climate change mitigation projects tend to objectify the value of carbon, land and labour, contributing to a process of commodification of nature and social relations. …
Palm oil expansion in tropical peatland
Tropical peatland suffers from rapid degradation due to expansion of palm oil plantations. In Indonesia, Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (ENGOs) have an important role in peatland protection. This paper discusses the implications of responsibilization in the relation between advocacy and service ENGOs in the context of tropical peatland protection and the expansion of palm oil in Sumatra, Indonesia. Drawing on the scholarly discussio…
Dwelling in Political Landscapes
Landscape is not what it used to be: Anthropology and the politics of environmental change O ur epoch is one of significant shi s in how relations among societies and natures are formed, maintained and lived.We suggest that new anthropological perspectives on landscape have great potential to address the resulting conundrums.People all over the globe are experiencing new hazards and unprecedented situations as their environments change at speeds …
Morality, sharing and change among the Ngaju people in Central Kalimantan
The article discusses the morality of sharing and how morality and values go hand in hand with certain forms of transfers among the Ngaju people in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. More precisely it examines interaction between a climate change mitigation project and the Ngaju Dayaks. Ngaju Dayaks living along the Kahayan River have practiced hunting, and gathering different forest products and shifting cultivation for centuries. Hunted game brough…
Climate change disputes and justice in C entral K alimantan, I ndonesia
In 2010, the province of C entral K alimantan in I ndonesia was established as a C limate C hange pilot province to reduce emissions from deforestation and through peat land forest rehabilitation. Today, international agencies, carbon traders, local and national governments, non‐governmental organisations, and local populations have participated in debates and disputes over the establishment of carbon forests and forest protection areas in C entr…
Sovereignty and Violence
The article explores the ongoing dispute connected with land rights in the district of Wonosobo, Central Java, within the framework of state formation and sovereignty. It is argued that in many places in Indonesia and Central Java, local landscapes have become sites of violent struggles for sovereignty more broadly. An analytical distinction between modern and traditional forms of power is made and ethnographically explored, but it is argued that…
Climate change disputes and justice in C entral K alimantan, I ndonesia
In 2010, the province of C entral K alimantan in I ndonesia was established as a C limate C hange pilot province to reduce emissions from deforestation and through peat land forest rehabilitation. Today, international agencies, carbon traders, local and national governments, non‐governmental organisations, and local populations have participated in debates and disputes over the establishment of carbon forests and forest protection areas in C entr…
Dwelling in Political Landscapes
Landscape is not what it used to be: Anthropology and the politics of environmental change O ur epoch is one of significant shi s in how relations among societies and natures are formed, maintained and lived.We suggest that new anthropological perspectives on landscape have great potential to address the resulting conundrums.People all over the globe are experiencing new hazards and unprecedented situations as their environments change at speeds …
Shifting Valuations of Sociality and the Riverine Environment in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
This article explores how changing environmental conditions and practices connect with shifting forms and valuations of sociality in a Ngaju Dayak village in the radically transformed peatlands of southern Borneo. It proposes that the production of values and social relations is indivisible from the production of a livelihood through material means and dwelling in the local environment. The article describes how changing Ngaju orientations to soc…
Haunting the Factory
This article explores enchantments accompanying industrial development and the national discourse of modernity in the ecologically fragile swamp landscape of Central Kalimantan, situated in the southern part of Indonesian Borneo. Focusing on the experiences of the Ngaju Dayak, a local indigenous group, and mass-mediated narratives on enchantments of (national) development, we explore the promises and anxieties of the modern industrial schemes tha…
How do civil society organizations influence climate change politics? Evidence from India, Indonesia, and Finland
In this article, the efforts of civil society organizations to influence climate change policymaking in three countries with very different traditions of democratic decision making are compared: in a newly developed democracy (Indonesia), in an established democracy in the Global South (India), and in an established democracy in the Global North with an exceptionally strong civil society (Finland). The empirical material consists of 57 in-depth i…
Making and Unmaking Territories with Plants in the Riverine Peat Landscape of Central Kalimantan
Central Kalimantan, located on the Indonesian side of Borneo, has often been described as a state frontier area where rapid changes take place in legal and administrative regimes and in the rules that govern access and ownership to land and nature. Today, frontier development includes state and non-state actors that bring natural resource projects aimed at producing long-term effects by engaging local people in the commodification of nature. Loca…
Making Wetlands Agricultural Landscapes
In this essay, I examine the 'politics of infrastructure' by looking at the sociomaterial connections and disconnections, and the implications of wetland infrastructure promises and failures in Central Kalimantan (Anand et al. 2018; Harvey et al. 2017; Venkatesan et al. 2018
Palm oil expansion in tropical peatland
Tropical peatland suffers from rapid degradation due to expansion of palm oil plantations. In Indonesia, Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (ENGOs) have an important role in peatland protection. This paper discusses the implications of responsibilization in the relation between advocacy and service ENGOs in the context of tropical peatland protection and the expansion of palm oil in Sumatra, Indonesia. Drawing on the scholarly discussio…
Sovereignty and Violence
The article explores the ongoing dispute connected with land rights in the district of Wonosobo, Central Java, within the framework of state formation and sovereignty. It is argued that in many places in Indonesia and Central Java, local landscapes have become sites of violent struggles for sovereignty more broadly. An analytical distinction between modern and traditional forms of power is made and ethnographically explored, but it is argued that…
Climate change disputes and justice in C entral K alimantan, I ndonesia
In 2010, the province of C entral K alimantan in I ndonesia was established as a C limate C hange pilot province to reduce emissions from deforestation and through peat land forest rehabilitation. Today, international agencies, carbon traders, local and national governments, non‐governmental organisations, and local populations have participated in debates and disputes over the establishment of carbon forests and forest protection areas in C entr…
Morality, sharing and change among the Ngaju people in Central Kalimantan
The article discusses the morality of sharing and how morality and values go hand in hand with certain forms of transfers among the Ngaju people in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. More precisely it examines interaction between a climate change mitigation project and the Ngaju Dayaks. Ngaju Dayaks living along the Kahayan River have practiced hunting, and gathering different forest products and shifting cultivation for centuries. Hunted game brough…
Dwelling in Political Landscapes
Landscape is not what it used to be: Anthropology and the politics of environmental change O ur epoch is one of significant shi s in how relations among societies and natures are formed, maintained and lived.We suggest that new anthropological perspectives on landscape have great potential to address the resulting conundrums.People all over the globe are experiencing new hazards and unprecedented situations as their environments change at speeds …
Contested values and climate change mitigation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Climate change mitigation pilot projects (REDD+ – Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) affect and interact with the local population in Central Kalimantan and many other parts of Indonesia. Rather than being politically and economically neutral activities, climate change mitigation projects tend to objectify the value of carbon, land and labour, contributing to a process of commodification of nature and social relations. …
Palm oil expansion in tropical peatland
Tropical peatland suffers from rapid degradation due to expansion of palm oil plantations. In Indonesia, Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (ENGOs) have an important role in peatland protection. This paper discusses the implications of responsibilization in the relation between advocacy and service ENGOs in the context of tropical peatland protection and the expansion of palm oil in Sumatra, Indonesia. Drawing on the scholarly discussio…
Making and Unmaking Territories with Plants in the Riverine Peat Landscape of Central Kalimantan
Central Kalimantan, located on the Indonesian side of Borneo, has often been described as a state frontier area where rapid changes take place in legal and administrative regimes and in the rules that govern access and ownership to land and nature. Today, frontier development includes state and non-state actors that bring natural resource projects aimed at producing long-term effects by engaging local people in the commodification of nature. Loca…
Shifting Valuations of Sociality and the Riverine Environment in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
This article explores how changing environmental conditions and practices connect with shifting forms and valuations of sociality in a Ngaju Dayak village in the radically transformed peatlands of southern Borneo. It proposes that the production of values and social relations is indivisible from the production of a livelihood through material means and dwelling in the local environment. The article describes how changing Ngaju orientations to soc…
How do civil society organizations influence climate change politics? Evidence from India, Indonesia, and Finland
In this article, the efforts of civil society organizations to influence climate change policymaking in three countries with very different traditions of democratic decision making are compared: in a newly developed democracy (Indonesia), in an established democracy in the Global South (India), and in an established democracy in the Global North with an exceptionally strong civil society (Finland). The empirical material consists of 57 in-depth i…
Making Wetlands Agricultural Landscapes
In this essay, I examine the 'politics of infrastructure' by looking at the sociomaterial connections and disconnections, and the implications of wetland infrastructure promises and failures in Central Kalimantan (Anand et al. 2018; Harvey et al. 2017; Venkatesan et al. 2018
Forum
It was Europe's wake up call: the news reported that a huge gas pipeline running across the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany had exploded (Oltermann 2022). The explosion caused a release of gas and ruptured the pipeline, abruptly stopping the flow of gas. In the aftermath of the Russian attack and war on Ukraine, we have seen time and again how infrastructure becomes the main stage for power struggles and politics (infrastructure destroyed for v…
Haunting the Factory
This article explores enchantments accompanying industrial development and the national discourse of modernity in the ecologically fragile swamp landscape of Central Kalimantan, situated in the southern part of Indonesian Borneo. Focusing on the experiences of the Ngaju Dayak, a local indigenous group, and mass-mediated narratives on enchantments of (national) development, we explore the promises and anxieties of the modern industrial schemes tha…
Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands
In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices. It explores how indigenous Ngaju Dayak people aim to achieve a good life and how hope takes shape in the current context of agrarian change. The article argues…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works)