Living rubber, dead land, and persisting systems in Borneo; Indigenous representations of sustainability

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ID2864191
AuthorsM R Dove (0009-0006-9013-1777, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume154
Issue1
Pages20-54
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/22134379-90003904
OpenAlexW3121856334
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited40

Whereas the Kantu' use the term tanah mati (dead land) for rubber gardens, they do not use the term tamh idup (living land) for swidden land.In this opposition, swidden land is the privileged register: rubber land needs to be differentiated from swidden land, but not the reverse.Gordon (1993:138) notes, however, that many of the Westem ecologists whom one would expect to be familiar with the success of smallholder rubber cultivation in Coutheast Asia are not: 'Given the facts conceming the extent of smallholder cultivation, it is indeed surprising to find in the work of a prominent ecologist such as Myers a belief that estates (or plantations) predominate and that heir industrial practices are ecologically sound [...l Myers is, in effect, throwing his case away

Agroforestry · Biology · Geography · Indigenous · Land use · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Shifting cultivation · Sustainability · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Studies and History · Ecology · Law

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