The Last Enclosure: Smoke, Fire and Crisis on the Indonesian Forest Frontier

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Last Enclosure

T2 - Smoke, Fire and Crisis on the Indonesian Forest Frontier

AU - Eilenberg, Michael

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - Forest and land fires have been occurring in Indonesia since the 1970s, but within the last two decades the intensity of these fires and their effects on neighbouring countries in regard to cross-border haze, has elicited high media attention and new political engagement. As a direct consequence, the Indonesian government has taken stern measures by prohibiting farmers from burning land and forests as part of their agricultural practices. Through the case of Indonesian Borneo, the paper explores how the haze crisis reinitiates old discourses of ‘backward’ and ‘destructive’ agriculture and invigorates policies of agricultural modernisation and privatisation at the expense of traditional agrarian practices.

AB - Forest and land fires have been occurring in Indonesia since the 1970s, but within the last two decades the intensity of these fires and their effects on neighbouring countries in regard to cross-border haze, has elicited high media attention and new political engagement. As a direct consequence, the Indonesian government has taken stern measures by prohibiting farmers from burning land and forests as part of their agricultural practices. Through the case of Indonesian Borneo, the paper explores how the haze crisis reinitiates old discourses of ‘backward’ and ‘destructive’ agriculture and invigorates policies of agricultural modernisation and privatisation at the expense of traditional agrarian practices.

KW - Indonesia

KW - Swidden agriculture

KW - agrarian transition

KW - enclosure

KW - land and forest fires

KW - resource frontiers

U2 - 10.1080/03066150.2021.1907355

DO - 10.1080/03066150.2021.1907355

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0306-6150

VL - 49

SP - 969

EP - 998

JO - The Journal of Peasant Studies

JF - The Journal of Peasant Studies

IS - 5

ER -