Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh’s oil palm frontier
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Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh’s oil palm frontier. / Lund, Christian.
In: Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2018, p. 431-452.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Predatory peace. Dispossession at Aceh’s oil palm frontier
AU - Lund, Christian
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The end of the civil war in Aceh brought peace, but it has been of a predatory nature. As a moment of rupture, the peace revealed interests, powers and dynamics, and it offered an opportunity for their reconfiguration. When unrest ceased, old agrarian conflicts between smallholders and planters resumed. Peace held promise of land reform. Yet old patterns of smallholder dispossession were entrenched as the former insurgency leadership aligned with the old elite of plantation companies. Oil palm contract-farming schemes effectively alienated smallholders from their land, and violence precluded their organization. As a result, large-scale plantation production expanded. Through the creation of a violent frontier, smallholders were denied recognition of independent rights and property. In essence, smallholders were dispossessed by a combination of violence, political power and duplicitous paperwork. The study is based on fieldwork in areas where current land conflicts are played out, as well as on secondary sources.
AB - The end of the civil war in Aceh brought peace, but it has been of a predatory nature. As a moment of rupture, the peace revealed interests, powers and dynamics, and it offered an opportunity for their reconfiguration. When unrest ceased, old agrarian conflicts between smallholders and planters resumed. Peace held promise of land reform. Yet old patterns of smallholder dispossession were entrenched as the former insurgency leadership aligned with the old elite of plantation companies. Oil palm contract-farming schemes effectively alienated smallholders from their land, and violence precluded their organization. As a result, large-scale plantation production expanded. Through the creation of a violent frontier, smallholders were denied recognition of independent rights and property. In essence, smallholders were dispossessed by a combination of violence, political power and duplicitous paperwork. The study is based on fieldwork in areas where current land conflicts are played out, as well as on secondary sources.
KW - Aceh
KW - frontier
KW - Indonesia
KW - oil palm plantations
KW - property
KW - smallholders
KW - social contract
KW - violence
U2 - 10.1080/03066150.2017.1351434
DO - 10.1080/03066150.2017.1351434
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85029426760
VL - 45
SP - 431
EP - 452
JO - The Journal of Peasant Studies
JF - The Journal of Peasant Studies
SN - 0306-6150
IS - 2
ER -
ID: 184065965