Producing human life or protecting wildlife? People, park, and space on Siberut Island, Indonesia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378009%3A_____%2F24%3A00600526" target="_blank" >RIV/68378009:_____/24:00600526 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/129520/94210" target="_blank" >https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/129520/94210</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Producing human life or protecting wildlife? People, park, and space on Siberut Island, Indonesia

Original language description

A series of biodiversity conservation campaign since 1980s and the establishment of Siberut National Park on Siberut Island (West Sumatra, Indonesia) in 1993 have not been overtly contested but rather constantly questioned and more often, ridiculed, by the indigenous Mentawai. Conservation campaign and the park have protected half of the island's rainforest from large-scale timber extraction and biodiversity loss but has seriously unsettled the relationship between the Mentawai and forest as well as between the Mentawai with powerful external agencies. For the Mentawai, claiming and contesting forests have been part of their social histories, while cultivating and transforming it into social spaces (agroforest, sago garden, settlements) and extracting uncultivated animals and plants are valued human activities and important criteria in the construction of personhood. Conservation initiatives have tried to persuade people keeping the forest intact and not transforming it, the establishment of the park have implied that the state claims the land and the forest. This paper argues that establishing a national park and conserving forests contradicts the value of productive activities and the history of human labour attached and spent on the land and forest. The resistance over park offers vital clues in understanding how producing nature is inseparable from producing humans and discusses how people can coexist with forests and nonhuman entities, not just by conserving, but transforming it. Understanding the mutual human-forest production and transformation is a key to future biodiversity conservation on the island.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA24-13058S" target="_blank" >GA24-13058S: Beyond Insecurity: Changing Indigenous People’s Foodways in Time of Climate Change in Indonesia (BICOFID)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Suomen Antropologi

ISSN

1799-8972

e-ISSN

1799-8972

Volume of the periodical

48

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

FI - FINLAND

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

4-30

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85204489765