Gender, Ethnicity, and Environmental Transformations in Indonesia and Beyond

Q1 Social Sciences

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2017-06-29 DOI:10.14764/10.ASEAS-2017.1-1

Kristina Großmann, Martina Padmanabhan, S. Afiff

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Abstract

The contributions in this special issue are based on the general assumption that political and economic decisions always have an ecological impact and that societies have always transformed, (re-)produced, manufactured, and crafted nature. Environmental transformations are never socially neutral but are strongly connected to power relations (Görg, 2003). The enforcement of power over nature evolves in a dialectical process with the enforcement of power over humans (Pye, 2015). Furthermore, social, cultural, and political power asymmetries shape the production of knowledge, the definition of problems, and the search for solutions with regard to socio-ecological phenomena. Both gender and ethnicity are decisive factors in societal relations to nature. Gender constitutes a critical variable in human-nature relationships (Resurreccion & Elmhirst, 2008; Rocheleau, Slayter-Thomas, & Wangar, 1996) as does the category of ethnicity with its strong impact on group formation (Afiff & Lowe, 2007; Bertrand, 2004; Li, 2000). In this special issue we address how both categories interact and enforce each other in contested development processes, focusing on access, control, knowledge production, and identity-formation in struggles over land, nature, and natural resources.

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印度尼西亚及其他地区的性别、种族和环境转型

本期特刊的文章基于这样一个普遍假设:政治和经济决策总是会对生态产生影响，社会总是在改造、(再)生产、制造和精心设计自然。环境转型从来不是社会中立的，而是与权力关系密切相关(Görg, 2003)。权力对自然的强制执行与权力对人类的强制执行是一个辩证的过程(Pye, 2015)。此外，社会、文化和政治权力的不对称塑造了知识的生产、问题的定义以及对社会生态现象的解决方案的探索。性别和种族都是社会与自然关系中的决定性因素。性别构成了人与自然关系的关键变量(resurrection & Elmhirst, 2008;Rocheleau, Slayter-Thomas， & Wangar, 1996)，种族类别对群体形成的强烈影响也是如此(affiff & Lowe, 2007;伯特兰,2004;李,2000)。在本期特刊中，我们将讨论这两个类别如何在有争议的发展过程中相互作用和相互促进，重点关注在土地、自然和自然资源的斗争中获取、控制、知识生产和身份形成。

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Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)

CiteScore

2.20

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审稿时长

45 weeks

期刊介绍： The Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (ASEAS) is an international, interdisciplinary and open access social sciences journal covering a variety of topics (culture, economics, geography, politics, society) from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Topics should be related to Southeast Asia, but are not restricted to the geographical region, when spatial and political borders of Southeast Asia are crossed or transcended, e.g., in the case of linguistics, diaspora groups or forms of socio-cultural transfer. ASEAS publishes two focus issues per year and we welcome out-of-focus submissions at any time. The journal invites both established as well as young scholars to present research results and theoretical and methodical discussions, to report about on-going research projects or field studies, to publish conference reports, to conduct interviews with experts in the field, and to review relevant books. Articles can be submitted in German or English.