Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land

A Social Movement Ethnography
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-39775-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 159 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage done over nearly a century of abuse. Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land is their story. David E. Gilbert offers an account of the ways these workers-turned-activists mobilized to move beyond industrial agriculture's exploitation of workers and the environment, illustrating how emancipatory and ecologically attuned ways of living with land are possible. At a time when capitalism has remade landscapes and reordered society, the Casiavera reclaiming movement stands as an inspiring example of what struggles for social and environmental justice can achieve.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilbert, David E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Dramatis Personae 

Introduction: Land Back 

Part I. Dispossession
1. Under the Gun 
2. Primitive Enclosures 
3. The Plantation Lifeworld 

Part II. Reclaiming
4. From Dissent to Occupation 
5. Organizing the Movement 
6. Diversifying the Land, 1998–2016 
7. The Predatory Work That Remains 
8. Reclaiming Solidarities 

Conclusion: Going Beyond 

Acknowledgments 
Appendix I. History of the Collective Land, 1997 
Appendix II. Indonesian Peasant Union (Serikat Petani Indonesia)
Charter Documents, 1998
Appendix III. Counter-Mapping
Notes 
References 
Illustration Credits 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David E. Gilbert is a postdoctoral researcher in society and environment at the University of California, Berkeley. He is active in protest movements across three continents.