Oil palm governance at the grassroots: how assemblage links oil palm, livelihoods, and local administration in an Indonesian village

O'Reilly, Patrick; Anshari, Gusti; Sancho, Jonay Jovani; Jaya, Adi; Antang, Emmy; Antang, Corry; Evers, Stephanie; Evans, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7052-354X; Wilson, Paul; Crout, Neil; Sjorgesten, Sofie; Upton, Caroline; Page, Sue. 2020 Oil palm governance at the grassroots: how assemblage links oil palm, livelihoods, and local administration in an Indonesian village [in special issue: Palm oil governance] International Review of Modern Sociology, 46 (1-2). 103-120.

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Abstract/Summary

Oil palm governance has attracted significant research attention. However, the impact of this work on palm oil governance remains patchy. In part, this is linked to trends in palm oil research, which focus on the conservation-development binary that limits exploration of the practices whereby actors in different sites work out oil palm governance. In this paper, we propose an approach that conceptualizes the oil palm industry as an assemblage of heterogeneous human and non-human elements and explores how these are contingently brought together in the oil palm industry. These are employed to examine how oil palm is integrated into a village in West Kalimantan. The study shows that while current partnership arrangements leave village governments in a weak position vis-à-vis large plantation companies, local administrative arrangements provide local actors with the capacity to respond to opportunities in a variety of ways resulting in diversified small-scale production addressing multiple livelihood objectives.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	0973-2047
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
NORA Subject Terms:	Agriculture and Soil Science
Date made live:	18 Jan 2021 16:05 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/529418

Item Type:

Publication - Article

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)

ISSN:

0973-2047

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.

NORA Subject Terms:

Agriculture and Soil Science

Date made live:

18 Jan 2021 16:05 +0 (UTC)