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| Volume 105(1) 2005, pages: 1-15. | | Nancy Lee Peluso: | Seeing property in land use: Local territorializations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia | | This paper looks at ways of seeing property rights and making
claims to land, land-based resources, and territories over time in a
district of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. It starts from the premise
that changing political economic circumstances and cultural politics
create historical conditions that make it easier for political actors
to “see” and act on particular sorts of claims. At present, the
predominant way of seeing is one based on territoriality. Government
and international land use planning are dominated by territorialization
strategies. Territorialization, however, is not only an imposed
process emanating from centers of power. Using case studies
of counter-mapping NGOs and of the territory-producing practices
of Salako in a West Kalimantan village, I explore the ways that
local territorializations have contributed to changing constructions
of ethnic identity, physical landscapes, and tree and land tenures. | | >> download as pdf |
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