Rightless Resistance
Rightless Resistance investigates why resistance to land grabbing so often fails. The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations has triggered widespread conflict across rural Indonesia as communities lose their land with little compensation. Based on an unprecedented study of 150 such conflicts, this...
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2026
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| author | Peterson, Daniel Hospes, Otto Dhiaulhaq, Ahmad Bedner, Adriaan Berenschot, Ward |
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| description | Rightless Resistance investigates why resistance to land grabbing so often fails. The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations has triggered widespread conflict across rural Indonesia as communities lose their land with little compensation. Based on an unprecedented study of 150 such conflicts, this book uncovers how villagers fight back against palm oil companies, and what their struggles reveal about power, law, and citizenship in postcolonial Indonesia. Enduring colonial legacies and collusive politics have left rural Indonesians virtually rightless, so villagers turn to customary traditions and social norms instead of formal law—a strategy that rarely gets results. By analyzing this resistance to corporate land grabbing, Ward Berenschot, Ahmad Dhiaulhaq, Afrizal, and Otto Hospes offer a new perspective on why land rights movements often fall short. When the legal system is unreliable, people aim lower—and the deeper power imbalances facilitating their dispossession go unchallenged. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1761212026-05-01T05:42:06Z Rightless Resistance Peterson, Daniel Hospes, Otto Dhiaulhaq, Ahmad Bedner, Adriaan Berenschot, Ward Palm oil and land conflict in Indonesia Rural resistance to plantation expansion Customary land rights and corporate power Land dispossession Business-politics collusion Citizenship and protest in postcolonial states thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVC Civics and citizenship Rightless Resistance investigates why resistance to land grabbing so often fails. The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations has triggered widespread conflict across rural Indonesia as communities lose their land with little compensation. Based on an unprecedented study of 150 such conflicts, this book uncovers how villagers fight back against palm oil companies, and what their struggles reveal about power, law, and citizenship in postcolonial Indonesia. Enduring colonial legacies and collusive politics have left rural Indonesians virtually rightless, so villagers turn to customary traditions and social norms instead of formal law—a strategy that rarely gets results. By analyzing this resistance to corporate land grabbing, Ward Berenschot, Ahmad Dhiaulhaq, Afrizal, and Otto Hospes offer a new perspective on why land rights movements often fall short. When the legal system is unreliable, people aim lower—and the deeper power imbalances facilitating their dispossession go unchallenged. 2026-05-01T05:42:05Z 2026-05-01T05:42:05Z 2026-04-30T09:40:25Z 2016 book ONIX_20260415T184305_9781501785962_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112738 9781501785955 9781501785962 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176121 eng Cornell Modern Indonesia Project open access Cornell University Press Southeast Asia Program Publications 10.7298/eky7-xj10 10.7298/eky7-xj10 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9781501785955 9781501785962 Southeast Asia Program Publications 306 Ithaca open access |
| spellingShingle | Palm oil and land conflict in Indonesia Rural resistance to plantation expansion Customary land rights and corporate power Land dispossession Business-politics collusion Citizenship and protest in postcolonial states thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVC Civics and citizenship Peterson, Daniel Hospes, Otto Dhiaulhaq, Ahmad Bedner, Adriaan Berenschot, Ward Rightless Resistance |
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| topic | Palm oil and land conflict in Indonesia Rural resistance to plantation expansion Customary land rights and corporate power Land dispossession Business-politics collusion Citizenship and protest in postcolonial states thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVC Civics and citizenship |
| topic_facet | Palm oil and land conflict in Indonesia Rural resistance to plantation expansion Customary land rights and corporate power Land dispossession Business-politics collusion Citizenship and protest in postcolonial states thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVC Civics and citizenship |
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