Rubber to Artisanal Oil Mining Narratives: A Study of Governmentality in Dusun Tue, Indonesia

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10.2991/978-94-6463-680-2_21How to use a DOI?

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Artisanal and Small-Scale Oil Mining; Governmental Rationality; Rural Livelihood; Smallholder Farmer; Technology of the Self

Abstract

The issue of resource dispossession has been an ongoing narrative of the villagers and an everlasting struggle between the ruling regime as well as the local communities. The regime tends to organize and implement a managed Governmentality with a target population. Therefore, it is fascinating to figure out the historicity of the ruling regime practicing governmentality, its influence on Dusun Tue community, as well as its strategies to construct knowledge and self-regulation techniques for survival. A three-month live-in and critical ethnographic qualitative study was conducted in Dusun Tue, Indonesia to obtain data through observations, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions. The historicity of the socio-cultural landscape of Dusun Tue formation illustrates the history of Colonial hegemony and efforts to persuade people from rubber farming to pursue the dream of becoming artisanal oil miners. There is an expansion in the meaning of artisanal oil mining to shape various self-regulation techniques or organize personal and communal livelihoods as strategies or tactics for negotiating risks. Governmentality turns out to create the formation of a distinct subject, not entirely compliant, but also active, productive, and powerful to a certain extent. The livelihood of the villagers remains a dynamic process and continues to be negotiated. Consequently, there is a critical need for cross-sectoral thought regarding artisanal oil mining in the global south, not only the issue of mining licenses and economic development, but also the ongoing struggles of the rural communities.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Vieronica Varbi Sununianti
AU  - Rudy Kurniawan
AU  - Andries Lionardo
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/04/26
TI  - Rubber to Artisanal Oil Mining Narratives: A Study of Governmentality in Dusun Tue, Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association Conference  (APSA 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 245
EP  - 260
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-680-2_21
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-680-2_21
ID  - Sununianti2025
ER  -