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

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Výsledek na webu

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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA24-13058S" target="_blank" >GA24-13058S: V době nejistoty: Změna stravovacích návyků původních obyvatel Indonésie v době klimatické změny (BICOFID)</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Suomen Antropologi

ISSN

1799-8972

e-ISSN

1799-8972

Svazek periodika

48

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

FI - Finská republika

Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

4-30

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85204489765