Lesley Potter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 96685 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lesley Potter |
| NOMBRES | Lesley |
| APELLIDO | Potter |
| FIRMA | POTTER L |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1979-3939 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 210 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Transforming Borneo
“There is an energizing boldness in this synthesis: the right big-picture questions aligning all the way down to the right complexities on the ground, and across the diverse territories that comprise contemporary Borneo. A manifesto for the kinds of cross-sectoral and applied research that can make the difference to the future of Borneo.” Cynthia Ong, Chief Executive Facilitator, Forever Sabah “A surgical and timely compendium on the transformati…
Colombia’s oil palm development in times of war and ‘peace’
Between 1993 and 2015 the land planted to oil palm in Colombia increased fourfold, from 119,000ha to 484,000ha. This rapid growth coincided with a period of extreme armed conflict and displacement, with inequality in land distribution reaching the highest levels in Latin America (Oxfam, 2017). These occurrences spurred this inquiry into conditions on the ground in the palm growing zones and the political and economic forces promoting the crop. Th…
Identifying key factors for mobilising under-utilised low carbon land resources
Mobilising under-utilised low carbon (ULC) land for future agricultural expansion helps minimising further carbon stock loss. This study examined the regency cases in Kalimantan, a carbon loss hotspot, to understand the key factors for mobilising ULC land via narrative interviews with a range of land-use actors and complementary desktop analyses. The factors were broadly categorised into economic, agro-ecological, institutional and cultural facto…
Exploring under-utilised low carbon land resources from multiple perspectives
Land for the People
Land for the People provides a comprehensive look at land conflict and agrarian reform throughout Indonesia’s recent history, from the roots of land conflicts in the prerevolutionary period, and the Sukarno and Suharto regimes, to the present day, in which democratization is creating new contexts for peoples’ claims to the land. Drawing on studies from across Indonesia’s diverse landscape, the contributors examine some of the most significant iss…
New transmigration ‘paradigm’ in I ndonesia
Transmigration from Java to rural areas of the ‘outer islands’ appeared finished in Indonesia after the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998 and decentralisation in 2001. However, the rapid growth of oil palm plantations in the past decade has led to a renewed call for transmigrants by district heads seeking an expanded labour force. A new system has evolved on a district‐to‐district basis with applicants in ‘sending districts’ (in J ava, B ali and…
Kalimantan in the firing line
This note examines the impact of the global financial crisis on Kalimantan's four provinces. Although growth in the region slowed dramatically with the onset of the crisis, only in the dominant province of East Kalimantan did overall growth turn (slightly) negative. There were strong negative effects on the agricultural, manufacturing and mining sectors, but these differed greatly across individual provinces. This study presents evidence on price…
Resource periphery, corridor, heartland
The long borderland in Kalimantan between Indonesia and East Malaysia is partly mountainous and environmentally unique, its three national parks forming the core of a tri‐nation ‘Heart of Borneo’ initiative proposed by environmental NGOs and ratified in 2006. More accessible lowlands in West Kalimantan and the north of East Kalimantan constitute a typical ‘resource periphery’ in which strategic considerations, persisting through the Suharto years…
Marlowe's Dido
CRITICS agree that Aeneid 1, 2, and 4 are the principal source for Marlowe’s Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and that the playwright was an accomplished translator of Latin.1 And yet there is much about Dido that seems un-Virgilian, for it often embellishes the Aeneid in ways that appear to flout the high seriousness of the epic. A strong critical strand has formed around Dido’s treatment of the Aeneid that looks to Ovid for an explanation of…
Who Counts? Demography of Swidden Cultivators in Southeast Asia
Swidden cultivators are often found as a distinct category of farmers in the literature, but rarely appear in population censuses or other national and regional classifications. This has led to a worldwide confusion on how many people are dependent on this form of agriculture. The most often cited number of 200-300 million dates back to the early 1970s, but the source is obscure. We assess available, published data from nine countries in Southeas…
Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia. The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development 2nd Edition
Rural Women, Displacement and the Three Gorges Project
Based on empirical research, this article examines the status, situations and development issues of rural women displaced by the monumental Three Gorges Project (TGP) in China. The study reveals that TGP resettlement is leaving women worse off as family members, as well as worse off than male members. Woman resettlers are more likely to become impoverished than men, partly because women make up the main labour force in agricultural sectors. Most …
Tree crop smallholders, capitalism, and adat
This paper examines the extent to which traditional techniques and practices remain current among a sub‐set of Indonesian tree crop smallholders. Village‐based studies of independent oil palm and rubber smallholders in Riau (Sumatra) indicate that bio‐diverse ‘jungle rubber’ and multi‐cropping techniques still exist, but primarily as components of farmers’ coping strategies under low commodity prices. A further strategy, seeking income from non‐a…
Introduction
Historical Atlas of Indonesia, Robert Cribb
This extensive work, published in association with the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, is broad in scope, featuring 327 maps and ten figures with explanatory text. It contains much material not previously presented in cartographic form. The text and accompanying maps move chronolog-ically from distant geological time, through Indonesia’s prehistory and the initial peopling of the archipelago, to the documented historical past. The latter is di…
Agricultural Intensification in Indonesia
Extremely high population densities conventionally demand a preliminary look at intensification in Java, in both lowland and upland agriculture. However, the major focus of this paper is on intensification processes under more moderate population pressure on the islands outside Java. Government initiatives during the Suharto era often constrained land use decisions at local level. Of particular importance were restrictive forest classifications a…
Reinventing Imperata
This article takes a new look at the economic value and cultural significance of Imperata cylindrica grasslands in Indonesia, drawing particularly on fieldwork in Bali, Lombok and West Timor, where the focus is on the use of alang-alang grass for roof thatch. The development of tourism has resulted in the commodification of thatch in Bali and Lombok for quality roofing and insulation. With its visual impact reinforcing its traditional cultural si…
Breaking away from sugar? East Indians and the rice industry of Guyana, 1905–1940
Peer-reviewed
In the Place of the Forest
In Place of the Forest
Social Aspects of Forestry in Southeast Asia
This paper examines the major trends since the 1950s in social science writing on forest management in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is simultaneously rich in and dependent on natural resources, both for local and national use or sale. Among renewable resources, forest products have played critical roles in the region's national, provincial, and local economies before, during, and after colonialism — for as long as two millennia. Their importanc…
Rural Livelihoods, Resources and Coping with Crisis in Indonesia
Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
Who Counts? Demography of Swidden Cultivators in Southeast Asia
Swidden cultivators are often found as a distinct category of farmers in the literature, but rarely appear in population censuses or other national and regional classifications. This has led to a worldwide confusion on how many people are dependent on this form of agriculture. The most often cited number of 200-300 million dates back to the early 1970s, but the source is obscure. We assess available, published data from nine countries in Southeas…
New transmigration ‘paradigm’ in I ndonesia
Transmigration from Java to rural areas of the ‘outer islands’ appeared finished in Indonesia after the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998 and decentralisation in 2001. However, the rapid growth of oil palm plantations in the past decade has led to a renewed call for transmigrants by district heads seeking an expanded labour force. A new system has evolved on a district‐to‐district basis with applicants in ‘sending districts’ (in J ava, B ali and…
Colombia’s oil palm development in times of war and ‘peace’
Between 1993 and 2015 the land planted to oil palm in Colombia increased fourfold, from 119,000ha to 484,000ha. This rapid growth coincided with a period of extreme armed conflict and displacement, with inequality in land distribution reaching the highest levels in Latin America (Oxfam, 2017). These occurrences spurred this inquiry into conditions on the ground in the palm growing zones and the political and economic forces promoting the crop. Th…
In Place of the Forest
Rural Women, Displacement and the Three Gorges Project
Based on empirical research, this article examines the status, situations and development issues of rural women displaced by the monumental Three Gorges Project (TGP) in China. The study reveals that TGP resettlement is leaving women worse off as family members, as well as worse off than male members. Woman resettlers are more likely to become impoverished than men, partly because women make up the main labour force in agricultural sectors. Most …
Land for the People
Land for the People provides a comprehensive look at land conflict and agrarian reform throughout Indonesia’s recent history, from the roots of land conflicts in the prerevolutionary period, and the Sukarno and Suharto regimes, to the present day, in which democratization is creating new contexts for peoples’ claims to the land. Drawing on studies from across Indonesia’s diverse landscape, the contributors examine some of the most significant iss…
Resource periphery, corridor, heartland
The long borderland in Kalimantan between Indonesia and East Malaysia is partly mountainous and environmentally unique, its three national parks forming the core of a tri‐nation ‘Heart of Borneo’ initiative proposed by environmental NGOs and ratified in 2006. More accessible lowlands in West Kalimantan and the north of East Kalimantan constitute a typical ‘resource periphery’ in which strategic considerations, persisting through the Suharto years…
Agricultural Intensification in Indonesia
Extremely high population densities conventionally demand a preliminary look at intensification in Java, in both lowland and upland agriculture. However, the major focus of this paper is on intensification processes under more moderate population pressure on the islands outside Java. Government initiatives during the Suharto era often constrained land use decisions at local level. Of particular importance were restrictive forest classifications a…
Tree crop smallholders, capitalism, and adat
This paper examines the extent to which traditional techniques and practices remain current among a sub‐set of Indonesian tree crop smallholders. Village‐based studies of independent oil palm and rubber smallholders in Riau (Sumatra) indicate that bio‐diverse ‘jungle rubber’ and multi‐cropping techniques still exist, but primarily as components of farmers’ coping strategies under low commodity prices. A further strategy, seeking income from non‐a…
Exploring under-utilised low carbon land resources from multiple perspectives
Kalimantan in the firing line
This note examines the impact of the global financial crisis on Kalimantan's four provinces. Although growth in the region slowed dramatically with the onset of the crisis, only in the dominant province of East Kalimantan did overall growth turn (slightly) negative. There were strong negative effects on the agricultural, manufacturing and mining sectors, but these differed greatly across individual provinces. This study presents evidence on price…
Marlowe's Dido
CRITICS agree that Aeneid 1, 2, and 4 are the principal source for Marlowe’s Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and that the playwright was an accomplished translator of Latin.1 And yet there is much about Dido that seems un-Virgilian, for it often embellishes the Aeneid in ways that appear to flout the high seriousness of the epic. A strong critical strand has formed around Dido’s treatment of the Aeneid that looks to Ovid for an explanation of…
Reinventing Imperata
This article takes a new look at the economic value and cultural significance of Imperata cylindrica grasslands in Indonesia, drawing particularly on fieldwork in Bali, Lombok and West Timor, where the focus is on the use of alang-alang grass for roof thatch. The development of tourism has resulted in the commodification of thatch in Bali and Lombok for quality roofing and insulation. With its visual impact reinforcing its traditional cultural si…
Social Aspects of Forestry in Southeast Asia
This paper examines the major trends since the 1950s in social science writing on forest management in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is simultaneously rich in and dependent on natural resources, both for local and national use or sale. Among renewable resources, forest products have played critical roles in the region's national, provincial, and local economies before, during, and after colonialism — for as long as two millennia. Their importanc…
In Place of the Forest
In the Place of the Forest
Breaking away from sugar? East Indians and the rice industry of Guyana, 1905–1940
Peer-reviewed
Reinventing Imperata
This article takes a new look at the economic value and cultural significance of Imperata cylindrica grasslands in Indonesia, drawing particularly on fieldwork in Bali, Lombok and West Timor, where the focus is on the use of alang-alang grass for roof thatch. The development of tourism has resulted in the commodification of thatch in Bali and Lombok for quality roofing and insulation. With its visual impact reinforcing its traditional cultural si…
Historical Atlas of Indonesia, Robert Cribb
This extensive work, published in association with the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, is broad in scope, featuring 327 maps and ten figures with explanatory text. It contains much material not previously presented in cartographic form. The text and accompanying maps move chronolog-ically from distant geological time, through Indonesia’s prehistory and the initial peopling of the archipelago, to the documented historical past. The latter is di…
Agricultural Intensification in Indonesia
Extremely high population densities conventionally demand a preliminary look at intensification in Java, in both lowland and upland agriculture. However, the major focus of this paper is on intensification processes under more moderate population pressure on the islands outside Java. Government initiatives during the Suharto era often constrained land use decisions at local level. Of particular importance were restrictive forest classifications a…
Tree crop smallholders, capitalism, and adat
This paper examines the extent to which traditional techniques and practices remain current among a sub‐set of Indonesian tree crop smallholders. Village‐based studies of independent oil palm and rubber smallholders in Riau (Sumatra) indicate that bio‐diverse ‘jungle rubber’ and multi‐cropping techniques still exist, but primarily as components of farmers’ coping strategies under low commodity prices. A further strategy, seeking income from non‐a…
Introduction
Southeast Asia. The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development 2nd Edition
Rural Women, Displacement and the Three Gorges Project
Based on empirical research, this article examines the status, situations and development issues of rural women displaced by the monumental Three Gorges Project (TGP) in China. The study reveals that TGP resettlement is leaving women worse off as family members, as well as worse off than male members. Woman resettlers are more likely to become impoverished than men, partly because women make up the main labour force in agricultural sectors. Most …
Resource periphery, corridor, heartland
The long borderland in Kalimantan between Indonesia and East Malaysia is partly mountainous and environmentally unique, its three national parks forming the core of a tri‐nation ‘Heart of Borneo’ initiative proposed by environmental NGOs and ratified in 2006. More accessible lowlands in West Kalimantan and the north of East Kalimantan constitute a typical ‘resource periphery’ in which strategic considerations, persisting through the Suharto years…
Marlowe's Dido
CRITICS agree that Aeneid 1, 2, and 4 are the principal source for Marlowe’s Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and that the playwright was an accomplished translator of Latin.1 And yet there is much about Dido that seems un-Virgilian, for it often embellishes the Aeneid in ways that appear to flout the high seriousness of the epic. A strong critical strand has formed around Dido’s treatment of the Aeneid that looks to Ovid for an explanation of…
Who Counts? Demography of Swidden Cultivators in Southeast Asia
Swidden cultivators are often found as a distinct category of farmers in the literature, but rarely appear in population censuses or other national and regional classifications. This has led to a worldwide confusion on how many people are dependent on this form of agriculture. The most often cited number of 200-300 million dates back to the early 1970s, but the source is obscure. We assess available, published data from nine countries in Southeas…
Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
Kalimantan in the firing line
This note examines the impact of the global financial crisis on Kalimantan's four provinces. Although growth in the region slowed dramatically with the onset of the crisis, only in the dominant province of East Kalimantan did overall growth turn (slightly) negative. There were strong negative effects on the agricultural, manufacturing and mining sectors, but these differed greatly across individual provinces. This study presents evidence on price…
New transmigration ‘paradigm’ in I ndonesia
Transmigration from Java to rural areas of the ‘outer islands’ appeared finished in Indonesia after the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998 and decentralisation in 2001. However, the rapid growth of oil palm plantations in the past decade has led to a renewed call for transmigrants by district heads seeking an expanded labour force. A new system has evolved on a district‐to‐district basis with applicants in ‘sending districts’ (in J ava, B ali and…
Land for the People
Land for the People provides a comprehensive look at land conflict and agrarian reform throughout Indonesia’s recent history, from the roots of land conflicts in the prerevolutionary period, and the Sukarno and Suharto regimes, to the present day, in which democratization is creating new contexts for peoples’ claims to the land. Drawing on studies from across Indonesia’s diverse landscape, the contributors examine some of the most significant iss…
Exploring under-utilised low carbon land resources from multiple perspectives
Identifying key factors for mobilising under-utilised low carbon land resources
Mobilising under-utilised low carbon (ULC) land for future agricultural expansion helps minimising further carbon stock loss. This study examined the regency cases in Kalimantan, a carbon loss hotspot, to understand the key factors for mobilising ULC land via narrative interviews with a range of land-use actors and complementary desktop analyses. The factors were broadly categorised into economic, agro-ecological, institutional and cultural facto…
Colombia’s oil palm development in times of war and ‘peace’
Between 1993 and 2015 the land planted to oil palm in Colombia increased fourfold, from 119,000ha to 484,000ha. This rapid growth coincided with a period of extreme armed conflict and displacement, with inequality in land distribution reaching the highest levels in Latin America (Oxfam, 2017). These occurrences spurred this inquiry into conditions on the ground in the palm growing zones and the political and economic forces promoting the crop. Th…
Transforming Borneo
“There is an energizing boldness in this synthesis: the right big-picture questions aligning all the way down to the right complexities on the ground, and across the diverse territories that comprise contemporary Borneo. A manifesto for the kinds of cross-sectoral and applied research that can make the difference to the future of Borneo.” Cynthia Ong, Chief Executive Facilitator, Forever Sabah “A surgical and timely compendium on the transformati…
Rural Livelihoods, Resources and Coping with Crisis in Indonesia
Geography (18 obras) · Economics (14 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Agriculture (10 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 obras) · Asian Studies and History (9 obras) · History (8 obras) · Business (7 obras) · Economy (7 obras) · Agroforestry (6 obras)