Understories of the political forest: a mobile feminist political ecology?

The article provides a commentary on Nancy Peluso's article: ‘The Remittance Forest: Turning Mobile Labour into Agrarian Capital ’. It offers a 'mobile and materialfeminist political ecology' to further extend Peluso's work, destabilizing a state-centred conceptualization of the political forest, and developing a material feminist intersectional reading of nature, mobility and labour in the volcanic landscapes of Java, Indonesia

Migration and the environment

This chapter argues that the dominance of discourses around climate change-induced migration in Southeast Asia overlooks the multifarious linkages between migration and the environment in a region which has long been characterised by mobility, local and transnational migration, and where livelihoods are frequently conducted on a multi-local basisis. Indeed, Southeast Asia’s development is built on the conjuncture of capital, nature and mobile labour, indicating that environments themselves have been produced through migration of various forms. Drawing on a series of conceptual lenses that emphasize socially-produced natures and socio-natural assemblages, the chapter explores the multiple links between migration and the environment in Southeast Asia, in part to complicate and contextualise otherwise simplistic framings of environmental crisis and migration in the region. This argument is made through reference to empirical studies that (i) demonstrate nature’s agency in shaping migration patterns in the region, (ii) show how socially-produced environments are forged through assemblages of displacement and migration, (iii) identify the ways migration and migrant livelihood practices have produced the region’s environments, and (iv) that reveal the mobile spatialities of injustice around hazardous ‘socionatures’ in different Southeast Asian settings

Ecología política feminista: perspectivas situadas, compromisos emergentes

This article provides a reflexive overview of developments in Feminist Political Ecology, a field of research and praxis that offers diverse theorisations of social relations of power associated with natures, culture and economies, underpinned by a shared commitment to feminist epistemology, methods and values. With reference to a small, illustrative selection of research papers, I present a situated and consciously partial commentary on Anglophone contributions that I have found resonant in my own research practice, teaching and everyday life. The development of feminist political ecology is considered across four related areas: first, the gender dynamics of resource access and dispossession; secondly, debates around post-humanism, bodies and matter; thirdly, activist and academic considerations of sufficiency, practices of commoning and a feminist ethics of care; and finally, recent efforts to develop a decolonial feminist political ecology. My aim is to show the kinds of questions and concerns that each of these threads raises, as platforms for continuing critical debate

Flooding in a city of migrants: ethnicity and entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia

This chapter, based on research funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, shows how social geographies produced by historical migrations to the city of Bandar Lampung in Indonesia contribute to vulnerability to flooding, and responses to flood events. In particular, migrant ethnic networks shape not onlyu the contours of precarious everyday livelihoods, but also the political capital people are able to actualize at very localised scales to attract assistance of various kinds. The chapter argues that policy makers need a nuanced appreciateion of the subtle ways past migrations remain significant in shaping vulnerability and defining access to resources - a step that is necessary for ensuring a just approach to flood responses

Migration and floods in Southeast Asia: a mobile political ecology of vulnerability, resilience and social justice

This chapter sets out a 'mobile political ecology' conceptual framework for understanding how migration links to vulnerability and resilience across diverse envrionmental, social and policy contexts. The chapter draws from and frames empirical work in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia, demonstrating the value of 'progressive contextualisation' for tracing vulnerability in migration-flood contexts. The chapter is part of a book that is the key output from primary research funded by the Rockefeller Foundation

Embodied engagement with gender and agrobiodiversity: Leveraging transformative moments in multidisciplinary teams

What happens when a leading international research centre that provides technical knowledge on agricultural and forest biodiversity to strengthen food security and ecosystem health is required to bring a gender perspective into its work? As part of a strategic initiative, Gender Specialist Marlène Elias was hired to take on this mantle in Bioversity International, one of the 15 CGIAR research centres (formerly the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). Bioversity International (hereafter, BI) was initially established as the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources and subsequently operated under the name of International Plant Genetic Resources Institute. Its early work focused on the emergency conservation of crop genetic resources in gene banks. The organisation’s focus has changed over time, and at the time of our discussion with Marlène, BI’s mission was to deliver scientific evidence, management practices and policy options to use and safeguard agricultural and forest biodiversity to attain sustainable global food and nutrition security. Since 2020, BI is in a formal alliance with CIAT (the Center for Tropical Agriculture), another CGIAR centre. The alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT aims to ‘deliver research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives’. Bioversity International is one of the CGIAR centres contributing to the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA), which is the world’s largest research for development program to enhance the role of forests, trees and agroforestry in sustainable development and food security, and to address climate change. Within her remit as Gender Specialist in the realm of Conservation and Management of Forest Genetic Resources, Marlène’s work has involved implementing FTA’s cross-centre Gender Strategy, launched in 2013, and more generally, integrating gender into BI’s activities

Gender, environment and culture : political ecology of transmigration in Indonesia.

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