Among Jru'(Loven) uplanders in southern Laos, three different ecologies intersect. Animism
focuses on local non-human persons like rice and earth spirits. Cash cropping elaborates …

Grounded in Southeast Asia's cultural, political, and environmental diversity, the five articles
in this issue of SOJOURN not only document massive environmental transformations and …

Diverted by the virality of social media and the powerful visibility of contemporary global
protest, social movement research started to loose sight of the invisible and silent aspects of …

Valued in utilitarian terms as channels for industry, agriculture, and urban development,
rivers are among the most biodiverse yet degraded ecosystems globally. In addition to …

The term “animism” is at once a fantasy internal to modernity and a semiotic conduit
enabling a serious inquiry into non-modern phenomena that radically call into question the …

Dayak individuals and groups engage in plural ecologies—characterized by different ways
of integrating humans and non-humans and by different conceptions of “nature”,“land”, and …

Official spaces for peacebuilding, reconciliation and coming to terms with the past are still
very limited in Indonesia, giving the matter of creative peacebuilding and resistance …

Protest movements in Indonesia resist the government's liberal development policies and
the destruction of culture and environment through capitalist intrusion and land (or sea) …

Purpose This paper aims to intend to contextualize touristification with a focus on Asia. It
argues that touristification in Asia extends beyond physical transformation and is used as a …

Indonesia's current president Joko Widodo wants to develop Indonesia from its margins, with
mixed results so far. One target area for capitalist investment is the Aru Islands in Maluku …