[Asia_news] [Indonesia.study.group] John McCarthy Crawford Seminar Thurs 19 Oct

[Indonesia.Project at anu.edu.au]

Rebooting Resource Governance
Reflections from the Indonesian Experience 

John McCarthy

EMD Program, Crawford School

 Seminar Room 1, JG Crawford Building

 Thursday 19 October

12.30 - 1.30pm

 All welcome. Refreshments will be available.


ABSTRACT 
In most developing countries, the state has claimed control over local
resources and institutions in the name of the people and the national
interest .  Yet, violent conflicts such as those in the Niger delta,
Bougainville, and Aceh, along with quotidian agrarian conflicts and
pervasive environmental decline have demonstrated the problems of
centralized, hierarchical forms of state resource management.  In parallel
with other realms of policy, in resource management there has been a shift
towards other, competing models of governance.  Yet, reforming environmental
management raises considerable practical and theoretical problems.  These
include the challenge of constructing legitimate, functioning resource
regimes that more effectively insert the local and the regional into the
national and the international within ethnically and legally plural social
orders.  Reflecting on recent reforms in Indonesia, this paper considers
recent attempts to improve resource governance processes.  Key issues
include the problems of changing legal entitlements, articulating state
institutional arrangements with localized, socially embedded arrangements,
as well as the way the political system processes political demands related
to access to resources and distribution of environmental benefits.

John McCarthy studied environmental science, social theory and anthropology
in the universities of Melbourne and Monash before completing a PhD at the
Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University.  He subsequently held fellowships
at the Asia Research Centre and at the Van Vollenhoven Insitute (Leiden
University). He has carried out various assignments with non-government
organisations in Australia and Indonesia, AusAID, the Centre for
International Forestry Research (CIFOR), WorldFish and the World Bank.  His
most recent publication is The Fourth Circle: A Political Ecology of
Sumatra's Rainforest Frontier (Stanford University Press, 2006).  He is
currently a senior lecturer in the Environmental Management and Development
Program, Crawford School of Economics and Government.

 

 

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