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Indigenous land claims or green grabs? Inclusions and exclusions within forest carbon politics in Indonesia

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ID2157241
AuthorsRini Astuti (0000-0003-4923-7693), Andrew Mcgregor (0000-0001-6476-346X)
Year2017
Volume44
Issue2
Pages445-466
Publication date2017-03-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066150.2016.1197908
OpenAlexW2481935889
LanguageEN
Citations received80
References cited47

In this paper we outline the new political conjuncture in forest governance emerging in Indonesia and trace how it is influencing the land claim strategies of an Indigenous community in Central Kalimantan. The new political conjuncture is comprised on three inter-related elements: a Constitutional Court decision to recognise Indigenous land claims; the development of the Reducing Emissions from Forest Degradation and Deforestation Plus (REDD+) forest carbon programme; and a national initiative known as One-map. Drawing on concepts of governmentality, assemblage and territoriality we trace how the Indigenous People's Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) are using this moment to assemble a land claim in Bahanei. We find that the conjuncture is providing opportunities for Indigenous communities to engage with a new assemblage of interests normally associated with green grabs to claim land back from state and private interests. However, the romantic green Indigenous subjectivities the new political conjuncture requires to attract carbon investment rarely fit the heterogeneous make up of village life. This is leading to intimate exclusions based on ethnicity and class, raising troubling questions about the extent of overlap between land claims and green grabs

Forest management · Geography · Governmentality · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · State forest · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Asian Studies and History · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Law · Ecology · Forestry

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