Journal
ASIA PACIFIC VIEWPOINT
Volume 62, Issue 1, Pages 40-55Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/apv.12265
Keywords
gender; resistance; Indonesia; palm oil; sustaining livelihoods
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This paper examines the gendered responses and livelihood strategies of Dayak Modang women and men in a hamlet surrounded by industrial palm oil plantations in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The impact of industrial oil palm curtails livelihood options and reinforces gender differentiation, leading to gendered inequalities and food insecurity dynamics. Despite gendered exclusions, Dayak Modang women use their knowledge and practices to diversify livelihoods and negotiate emerging constraints over resource access and use.
With large tracts of forested land planned for, or already converted to, industrial palm oil concessions, there is a need to better understand the gendered implications for, and responses by, communities affected by such landscape change. This paper examines the differentiated gendered responses and livelihood strategies of Dayak Modang women and men in a hamlet in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, surrounded by industrial palm oil plantations. Informed by feminist political ecology, we investigate how the compounding impact of industrial oil palm - the basis and outcome of enclavement - curtails livelihood options and reinforces gender differentiation in terms of access to and use of customary resources. Gendered inequalities and food insecurity dynamics emerge as a result. We show how, however, that despite gendered exclusions, Dayak Modang women use their own knowledge and practices to diversify livelihoods to negotiate emerging constraints over resource access and use. Our paper demonstrates that ways in which Dayak women 'sustain livelihoods' reflects forms of everyday negotiations and resistance to intensifying constraints over life and livelihood.
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