The cost of leisure: the political ecology of the commercialization of Indonesia’s protected areas

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2021-11-06 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2021.2001990

M. Purnomo, A. Maryudi, Novil Dedy Andriatmoko, Edy Muhamad Jayadi, Heiko Faust

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Using the political ecology approach, we investigated the Indonesian government’s decision to commercialize protected areas (PAs) and promote its tourism sector aggressively, and examined how this commercialization is enabled through various institutions and governing structures. We confirmed that the commercialization of PAs in Indonesia was an alternative accumulation, dealing with the crisis of capitalist accumulation. Our empirical finding showed that the commercialization of PAs in Indonesia had detimental environmental and social impacts, such as deadlocks or monopoly or management, and environmental deterioration. This commercialization pattern was different from accumulation by conservation in other regions, such as Africa, where local people were deprived of their access to the means of production, consequently becoming laborers in the tourism industry. In Indonesia, local people were given access to resources; however, as these resources were of little value, they became laborers in the tourism industry. Further research is needed to test whether different patterns of accumulation by conservation also apply to other types of PAs in Indonesia, such as national parks and customary forests, including various coral reef conservation areas in remote and small Islands used as tourist attractions.

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休闲成本：印尼保护区商业化的政治生态

利用政治生态学方法，我们调查了印度尼西亚政府将保护区(PAs)商业化并积极促进其旅游业的决定，并研究了如何通过各种机构和治理结构实现这种商业化。我们确认，印尼pa的商业化是一种替代性的积累，可以应对资本主义积累的危机。我们的实证研究结果表明，印尼保护区的商业化对环境和社会产生了不利的影响，如僵局或垄断或管理，以及环境恶化。这种商业化模式与非洲等其他地区的保护积累不同，在非洲，当地人被剥夺了获得生产资料的机会，因此成为旅游业的劳动者。在印度尼西亚，当地人可以获得资源;然而，由于这些资源没有什么价值，他们成为了旅游业的劳动力。需要进一步的研究来检验不同的养护积累模式是否也适用于印度尼西亚其他类型的保护区，例如国家公园和习惯森林，包括用作旅游景点的偏远和小岛屿上的各种珊瑚礁保护区。

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期刊介绍： Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.