"Becoming" an environmentalist in Indonesia

Pamela Nilan; G.R. Wibawanto

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.03.023

"Becoming" an environmentalist in Indonesia

Pamela Nilan, G.R. Wibawanto

School of Social Sciences

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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This article looks at how five environmental leaders in Jogjakarta became environmentally active, and at the groups and interventions they formed. Interview data are drawn from a broader project that aimed to find out what might turn an Indonesian person into someone who cares for the environment. It examines the journey in leadership as "becoming" in the terms of Deleuze and Guattari (1987); a journey constituted in the desire to make something different. Against a backdrop of day-today practices in Central Java that do not favour environmental conservation and sustainability, the five informants seized upon an idea, a praxis, and explored it in the company of like-minded others, to join or make an organisation or action dedicated to redressing environmental crisis or neglect.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	61-69
Journal	Geoforum
Volume	62
Early online date	18 Apr 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.03.023
Publication status	Published - Jun 2015

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