A004: Colonial Land Legacies in Southeast Asia

Organizer(s)

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  Susanna Barnes

  University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Chair(s)

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  Susanna Barnes

  University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Paper Presenter(s)

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  Bernardo Almeida

  Van Vollenhoven Institute
  Leiden University, Netherlands
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  Rebakah Daro Minarchek

  Integrated Social Sciences and the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, United States
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  Alex Grainger

  Independent Researcher, United Kingdom

Co-Author(s)

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  Monis Filipe

  Independent Researcher, Timor-Leste (East Timor)

Paper Presenter(s)

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  Alexandre Pelletier

  Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
  Cornell University, United States

Discussant(s)

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  Laura Yoder

  Wheaton College, United States

Session Abstract:
This panel examines the legacy of colonial land policies and practices in Southeast Asia. We seek to explore the origins of colonial land policies, how these policies travelled across different colonial territories and were used by both colonizer and colonized in different chronological periods, geographies and contexts. We are interested in the production of colonial knowledge around land and land governance as well as the circulation of expertise and experts within and between colonial Empires. How policies, people and practices interacted and were transformed, and the effects or legacies of these policies on contemporary land policy and practice. We encourage the submission of papers that how colonial knowledge about land and land practices was produced, by whom, why and how. Works that identify key colonial agents and institutions responsible for the production of knowledge and circulation of ideas regarding land. How this knowledge was transformed into practice. And the legacy of these policies and practices in contemporary society.

Presentations:

• Law, Land, and Language: The Portuguese Colonial Legacy
  

  Paper Presenter: Bernardo Almeida – Leiden University
• The Cultivation of Customary Law in Indonesia’s Political Forests
  

  Paper Presenter: Rebakah Daro Minarchek – Integrated Social Sciences and the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
• Colonial Land Title, Post-Colonial Land Dispute: Agrarian Land Use, Local Property Relations and the Historical Causes of Timor-Leste’s Land Disputes
  

  Paper Presenter: Alex Grainger – Independent Researcher

  Co-author: Monis Filipe – Independent Researcher
• Colonial Land Legacies on Religious Authority and Islamist Mobilization in Java, Indonesia
  

  Paper Presenter: Alexandre Pelletier – Cornell University