Strategies for shaping change: Networks for gaining access, enhancing exchange and obtain status

Pacific Geographies

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Kristina Großmann¹  Alessandro Gullo¹  Pinarsita Juliana²  Marko Mahin³  Semiarto Aji Purwanto⁴  Meta Septalisa⁵ 

[1] Comparative Development and Cultural Studies with focus on Southeast Asia, University of Passau;Independent filmmaker and staff of campaign and media information "Save Our Borneo", Jl. Gunung Arjuno VI No. 424, 74312 Sampit, Central Kalimantan;Universitas Kristen Palangka Raya and Lembaga Studi Dayak 21, Central Kalimantan;Department of Anthropology, Universitas Indonesia;Environmental activist, Rajawali km 5,5 Jl. Cumi-Cumi No. 249, 73112 Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan

关键词: trans-disciplinarity;    workshop;    networks;    resources;    Indonesia;    Kalimantan;   

DOI  :  10.23791/511215

来源: Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Pazifische Studien e.V.

【 摘 要 】

Networks were important in the forming of a collaborative workshop where representatives ofrelevant groups discussed strategies to shape socio-ecological change in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.Networks enhanced capacity, power, control and exchange. Furthermore, participants increased their socialcapital and status. Being part of established networks was on the one side a precondition for conductingthe workshop. On the other side, the fact that two researchers are affiliated to a German university andthus were not part of these networks in Central Kalimantan enabled a dialogical character of the workshop.Communication and the transfer of formal and informal information in networks were widely conducted viaWhatsApp, quite unusual for the German researchers but a common procedure in Indonesia. Establishingnetworks with ‘white people’ or ‘bule’ was a motivation for encounters between one German researcherand Indonesian workshop participants where issues of exotism arose. Furthermore, establishing networksbetween universities in the global North and the global South are an inherent aspect of transdisciplinaryresearch and engaged anthropology.

【 授权许可】

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