David E Gilbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 630472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David E Gilbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | David E |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilbert |
| SIGNATURE | GILBERT D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3394-0050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Domination and sabotage
Both domination and sabotage are ubiquitous in Amazonia as part of dialectical formations of the state, oil companies, and territorial and ecological defense movements. This article examines one stream of political response to state-capitalist domination in the West Amazonian forests of Yasuní: direct-action movements that bring together Indigenous and anarchist politics through expression of sabotage. Grounded in Indigenous and anarchist theorie…
Encountering degrowth
Degrowth theory and movements aim to find ways of living well while downscaling the economy, heal the many metabolic rifts that threaten global ecologies with capitalist exploitation of the earth, and end injustice and violence. While degrowth transformations may not ever be wholly achievable, we nevertheless propose that degrowth exists as lived experiences and practices. These practices take territorial expression and can be understood through …
Third-path struggles
Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land
A Mongabay Notable Book on Conservation and the Environment Featured in the Civil Eats Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage done over nearly a centur…
Shutting Down the Machines of Destruction
The protest blockade is one tool for seeking liberation from the state while living within it. I offer a critical analysis of the protest blockade in agrarian struggles for land and life in Indonesia and beyond. I specify my discussion with a retelling of a Sumatran land‐back movement of smallholders and landless workers who twice turned to the blockade to reclaim their land from a plantation company. I consider how these blockades and others in …
Laborers becoming 'peasants
Over the last two decades a group of rural workers on Sumatra's Aren Volcano worked with a self-proclaimed 'peasant' union to occupy and rehabilitate a bankrupt industrial ranch and plantation. Women and men worked together to cultivate diverse, economically-valuable agricultural forests on this erstwhile industrial site. In reclaiming a zone of ruined industrial production for small-scale natural agriculture, Aren's laborers transformed themselv…
The land exclusion dilemma and Sumatra's agrarian reactionaries
Even as millions of rural workers have organized into agrarian movements, their efforts to benefit from progressive social mobilizations often fail. To understand how agrarian movements can overcome these difficulties, this contribution acknowledges a dilemma: As agrarian movement members create ties to land they necessarily confront new forms of exclusion. We discuss this exclusionary land dilemma, with a focus on Sumatra's agrarian reactionarie…
Territorialization in a closing commodity frontier
In Ecuador's Yasuní rainforests and the lived history of the Waorani that live there, the commodification of first rubber and then oil shaped territorialization into particularly violent form. The formative role of rubber production in the 19th century involved local despots' imposition of a regime of violence. Reacting to this violent capitalist system, individual Waorani forged new socio-spatial territories through violence with rubber slavers …
The ‘Capitalist Squeeze’ and the Rise and Fall of Sumatra’s Krui Agroforests
The land exclusion dilemma and Sumatra's agrarian reactionaries
Even as millions of rural workers have organized into agrarian movements, their efforts to benefit from progressive social mobilizations often fail. To understand how agrarian movements can overcome these difficulties, this contribution acknowledges a dilemma: As agrarian movement members create ties to land they necessarily confront new forms of exclusion. We discuss this exclusionary land dilemma, with a focus on Sumatra's agrarian reactionarie…
Laborers becoming 'peasants
Over the last two decades a group of rural workers on Sumatra's Aren Volcano worked with a self-proclaimed 'peasant' union to occupy and rehabilitate a bankrupt industrial ranch and plantation. Women and men worked together to cultivate diverse, economically-valuable agricultural forests on this erstwhile industrial site. In reclaiming a zone of ruined industrial production for small-scale natural agriculture, Aren's laborers transformed themselv…
Shutting Down the Machines of Destruction
The protest blockade is one tool for seeking liberation from the state while living within it. I offer a critical analysis of the protest blockade in agrarian struggles for land and life in Indonesia and beyond. I specify my discussion with a retelling of a Sumatran land‐back movement of smallholders and landless workers who twice turned to the blockade to reclaim their land from a plantation company. I consider how these blockades and others in …
Territorialization in a closing commodity frontier
In Ecuador's Yasuní rainforests and the lived history of the Waorani that live there, the commodification of first rubber and then oil shaped territorialization into particularly violent form. The formative role of rubber production in the 19th century involved local despots' imposition of a regime of violence. Reacting to this violent capitalist system, individual Waorani forged new socio-spatial territories through violence with rubber slavers …
The ‘Capitalist Squeeze’ and the Rise and Fall of Sumatra’s Krui Agroforests
Territorialization in a closing commodity frontier
In Ecuador's Yasuní rainforests and the lived history of the Waorani that live there, the commodification of first rubber and then oil shaped territorialization into particularly violent form. The formative role of rubber production in the 19th century involved local despots' imposition of a regime of violence. Reacting to this violent capitalist system, individual Waorani forged new socio-spatial territories through violence with rubber slavers …
The land exclusion dilemma and Sumatra's agrarian reactionaries
Even as millions of rural workers have organized into agrarian movements, their efforts to benefit from progressive social mobilizations often fail. To understand how agrarian movements can overcome these difficulties, this contribution acknowledges a dilemma: As agrarian movement members create ties to land they necessarily confront new forms of exclusion. We discuss this exclusionary land dilemma, with a focus on Sumatra's agrarian reactionarie…
Laborers becoming 'peasants
Over the last two decades a group of rural workers on Sumatra's Aren Volcano worked with a self-proclaimed 'peasant' union to occupy and rehabilitate a bankrupt industrial ranch and plantation. Women and men worked together to cultivate diverse, economically-valuable agricultural forests on this erstwhile industrial site. In reclaiming a zone of ruined industrial production for small-scale natural agriculture, Aren's laborers transformed themselv…
Shutting Down the Machines of Destruction
The protest blockade is one tool for seeking liberation from the state while living within it. I offer a critical analysis of the protest blockade in agrarian struggles for land and life in Indonesia and beyond. I specify my discussion with a retelling of a Sumatran land‐back movement of smallholders and landless workers who twice turned to the blockade to reclaim their land from a plantation company. I consider how these blockades and others in …
Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land
A Mongabay Notable Book on Conservation and the Environment Featured in the Civil Eats Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage done over nearly a centur…
Third-path struggles
Domination and sabotage
Both domination and sabotage are ubiquitous in Amazonia as part of dialectical formations of the state, oil companies, and territorial and ecological defense movements. This article examines one stream of political response to state-capitalist domination in the West Amazonian forests of Yasuní: direct-action movements that bring together Indigenous and anarchist politics through expression of sabotage. Grounded in Indigenous and anarchist theorie…
Encountering degrowth
Degrowth theory and movements aim to find ways of living well while downscaling the economy, heal the many metabolic rifts that threaten global ecologies with capitalist exploitation of the earth, and end injustice and violence. While degrowth transformations may not ever be wholly achievable, we nevertheless propose that degrowth exists as lived experiences and practices. These practices take territorial expression and can be understood through …
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Agrarian society (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Livelihood (3 works)