Fluid Institutions of Access

Sea Space as a Livelihood Resource in Coastal Indonesia

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ID2286010
AutoresYunie N Rahmat (0000-0001-9219-8939, School of Geosciences University of Sydney Sydney Australia, autor correspondente), John Neilson (0000-0003-2560-2190, School of Geosciences University of Sydney Sydney Australia), Jeff Neilson, Alexandra Langford (0000-0003-3049-1579, Partnership of Australia‐Indonesia Research The Australia‐Indonesia Centre Makassar Indonesia), Zulung Walyandra (0000-0003-4351-8603, Partnership of Australia‐Indonesia Research The Australia‐Indonesia Centre Makassar Indonesia), Radhiyah Ruhon (0000-0001-5254-1050, Partnership of Australia‐Indonesia Research The Australia‐Indonesia Centre Makassar Indonesia), Risya Armis (Partnership of Australia‐Indonesia Research The Australia‐Indonesia Centre Makassar Indonesia), Risya Arsyi Armis, Imran Lapong (Partnership of Australia‐Indonesia Research The Australia‐Indonesia Centre Makassar Indonesia)
Ano2025
Volume25
Fascículo2
Data de publicação2025-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Agrarian Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1471-0358 • E-ISSN: 1471-0366
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/joac.12617
OpenAlexW4405731938
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas53

Indonesia is the world's largest producer of carrageenan seaweed, the cultivation of which is dominated by household operators and is transforming livelihoods in many coastal communities. Growing demand from the global food processing sector has rapidly transformed Indonesian coastal sea space into a commoditized livelihood resource, where access is governed by emergent, and highly fluid, institutions. Through an extensive ethnographic study in two coastal villages in South Sulawesi, we show how a new property rights regime is being created through evolving institutions of access (both formal and informal) in continual feedback with the livelihood strategies pursued by individual households. The ability to benefit from access to sea space, during a price boom, emerges from within multiple strands of intersecting power relations, producing a range of livelihood outcomes. This study contributes to debates on how rural livelihood opportunities are infused by the politics of access to natural resources, thus reshaping processes of agrarian change in coastal regions

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Boom · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Indonesian · Livelihood · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Political science · Property rights · Resource (disambiguation · Asian Studies and History · Coastal and Marine Management · International Maritime Law Issues