Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions: emotions, affective links and power relations

Hak, Sochanny; Underhill‐Sem, Yvonne; Ngin, Chanrith

doi:10.1080/01436597.2021.1956892

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“…In the Mekong region for instance, these spatial and social dislocations involved overlapping French colonial interventions, intense conflicts in the 1960s and 1970s and ongoing market intensification and land enclosures. Emotional responses to one specific episode of rupture can therefore have very deep roots (Beban, 2021;Hak et al, 2021;Singh, 2013). We find that these layered processes of trauma intensify the emotional experiences of rupture.…”

Section: Emotional Responses To Injustice and Insecuritymentioning

confidence: 78%

Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis

Mahanty

Milne

Barney

et al. 2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture the intensity and generative scope of this crisis. ‘Rupture’ is being used as a term for specific and intense episodes of change, such as wildfires or toxic pollution releases. This is a useful addition to our lexicon for nature-society change but needs to be more robustly theorized. Defining rupture as an intense and adverse episode of nature-society disruption that ripples across scales, we elaborate four dimensions that account for rupture's sources and uncertain effects. The first two dimensions consider how rupture emerges in space and time from: (i) synergistic spatial, material, and socio-natural changes across scales; and (ii) the accumulation of slow violence that builds towards and is exposed by punctuated shifts and crisis moments. The second two dimensions consider the outcomes of rupture, namely: (iii) heightened uncertainty, insecurity, and socio-material deprivation, which are experienced in unequal and deeply affective ways; and (iv) the scope to catalyze diverse forms of agency that play out in uncertain ways. To illustrate our discussion, we draw from our long history of research on hydropower landscapes in the Mekong region.

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Section: Emotional Responses To Injustice and Insecuritymentioning

confidence: 78%

Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis

Mahanty

Milne

Barney

et al. 2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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“…Davi's account resonates with the nexus between subjective/embodied experiences and collective political action discussed by feminist scholars (Rose, 1997; Bondi et al, 2006: 7). The LS2 case adds to existing evidence on how the emotional experiences of rupture—and associated land dispossession—can drive collective resistance (Henning, 2019; Singh, 2013; Hak et al, 2021; Sultana, 2011). Davi's story also illuminates how social ties and emotional connection provide the social “glue” to sustain political campaigns (Bosco, 2006; Brown and Pickerill, 2009) and to mobilize “social labour” in these campaigns (Bosco, 2006: 354; Hardt and Negri, 2004: 108; Singh, 2011).…”

Section: Emotions and Agency In Rupture's “Open Moment”mentioning

confidence: 94%

“…An inescapable challenge in studying emotions is the question of how we can “know” feelings (Bondi et al, 2006: 11)—particularly in cross-cultural contexts. We avoided trying to name and categorize different emotions as some emotions researchers have (see Hak et al, 2021; Brown, 2022). Instead, we studied emotions relationally—in relation to place, within community relationships and as the basis for diverse community actions (Nightingale, 2013: 8).…”

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“…Based on these ideas, we view emotions and the actions they spark as integral to embodied experience, to broader social processes, and to collective action (Nightingale, 2013). These ideas are now influential in studies of social movements, where subjective emotions are viewed as an important dimension of collective resistance, a theme that we return to later (Henning, 2019; Singh, 2013; Hak et al, 2021; Sultana, 2011).…”

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The emotional life of rupture at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam

Mahanty

Chann

Suong

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This article aims to extend and deepen our understanding of how emotions figure in experiences of major nature-society disruptions or “rupture.” Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam is an example of rupture, which refers to dramatic, adverse, and disruptive episodes that ripple across scale. Against a historical backdrop of land enclosures and dispossession, the dam sparked significant community and civil society resistance. This emotionally charged campaign emphasized that the dam and associated resettlement would erase the impacted communities’ deep customary relationships to the area. Although some community members ultimately refused the resettlement package and moved to customary lands near their flooded village, the majority accepted resettlement. We explore the emotional dimensions of these communities’ experiences, finding that rupture is an inherently emotional process, within layered historical processes of change and violence. The intense emotions that such processes evoke can spark action within the “open moment” (Lund, 2016) that episodes of rupture create; yet the outcomes are highly unpredictable within the asymmetrical political and economic settings that underpin nature-society rupture.

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“…Volkan, 2001). Countless other topics have been examined too: the emotions that underpin negotiations, from high-level peacekeeping to local conflict mediations; the links between protest, emotions, and social change; how emotions and power are intertwined and reinforce the preferencing of western frameworks and processes; and the more diffuse affective forces that frame anything from terrorist attacks and their responses to war crimes and reconciliation tribunals (see, for instance, Åhäll and Gregory, 2015; Beattie et al, 2019; Brigg, 2018; Clark, 2019, 2020; Fierke, 2012; Hak et al, 2022: 525–542; Jeffery, 2014; Lawther, 2017; Mihai, 2016; Rösch, 2021).…”

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Decolonising affect: Emotions and the politics of peace

Hutchison,

Bleiker,

Bourne

et al. 2024

Cooperation and Conflict

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Peace processes require societies to break with animosity and violence. Scholars and practitioners have traditionally focused on institutional and structural mechanisms. Recent contributions have stressed the need to address the emotional legacies of destructive conflicts and how they influence peace processes. We build on these contributions by engaging current debates on decolonisation. We advance a three-part argument that places decolonising emotion at the core of peace and conflict studies. First, prevailing concepts and practices of peace rely on collective emotions that are western and colonial in origin. Emotions are central to the power dynamics that sustain colonial legacies and the practices of exclusion and injustice that ensue from them. Second, decolonising emotion requires an openness to different feelings which, in turn, can open up possibilities for creative ways of thinking about and practising peace. Third, these realms – colonial legacies and resistant ways of being and feeling – do not exist in isolation. Potentials for peace-making emerge from complex ‘interfaces’ between them, which we examine through two cases: the emotion of Han (한/恨) in Korean traditions of conflict resolution; and links between mourning and conflict management in the Maluilgal First Nation of the Torres Strait in far northern Australia.

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Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions: emotions, affective links and power relations

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis

Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis

The emotional life of rupture at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam

Decolonising affect: Emotions and the politics of peace

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