Autonomy over Life
The Struggle against Capitalist Development in West Papua
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13009191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samira Homerang Saunders (Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author), Angela Sherwood (Queen Mary University of London), D Whyte (0000-0002-9732-7944, University of Mary Washington) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | State Crime Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2046-6056 • E-ISSN: 2046-6064 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/statecrime.13.2.0173 |
| OpenAlex | W4407421908 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
West Papua—the part of the island of Papua currently ruled by Indonesia—is a site of aggressive industrial development, with major industries in gas extraction, metallurgical mining, and agricultural plantation. It is also home to the third largest rainforest area in the world after the Amazon and Congo basins. This article analyzes the struggle by the Papuan people to resist the rapidly accelerating form of industrial development that is being imposed on them against their will. It highlights how extreme forms of state violence and a politically imposed settlement, against the will of the Papuan people, fuel an ongoing conflict. The article therefore argues that demands for the right to self-determination as a form of political autonomy cannot be separated from the struggle to retain basic control over the essential conditions for life in West Papua: food production and the protection of water and air quality. Moreover, it argues that resistance to the Indonesian state in West Papua must be understood as a struggle for autonomy in the widest possible sense: a struggle to assert autonomy over the entirety of social and economic reproduction
Autonomy · Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · International Development and Aid · Law
Laughing at Leviathan
The Indonesianization of West Papua
Colonialism and Cold Genocide
Resource extraction as a tool of racism in West Papua
The West Papuan liberation movement, Indonesian settler colonialism and Western imperialism from an international solidarity perspective
From saving to survivance
Freedom in Entangled Worlds
Power to make land dispossession acceptable
The impulse is cartographic
A thousand miles of cannibal lands
Corporate security practices and human rights in West Papua
Blinded by Bandung
Already Sovereign as a People
Social Sovereignty
Practicing autonomy
Adat Institutionalisation, the State and the Quest for Self-Determination in West Papua
Food sovereignty
Indonesian Colonisation, Resource Plunder and West Papuan Grievances
Freeport and the States
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |