‘No Matter What—I’ve Got Rights’: Women’s Land Grab Protests in Banyuwangi, East Java

For the past twenty years, the residents of Wongsorejo in the East Java Regency of Banyuwangi have protested against the expropriation of their land, clashing sometimes violently with government and company forces, and today women lead this struggle against land grabbing. In this chapter we interpre...

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Autores principales:	Wening Udasmoro, Elisabeth Prügl
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Publicado:	Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement 2021
Materias:	land grabbing peacebuilding gender land rights citizenship Political science J Economic growth, development, planning HD72-88
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:05cfe324870c4545859a66fd1f3370172021-12-02T09:54:11Z‘No Matter What—I’ve Got Rights’: Women’s Land Grab Protests in Banyuwangi, East Java1663-93751663-939110.4000/poldev.4655https://doaj.org/article/05cfe324870c4545859a66fd1f3370172021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/poldev/4655https://doaj.org/toc/1663-9375https://doaj.org/toc/1663-9391For the past twenty years, the residents of Wongsorejo in the East Java Regency of Banyuwangi have protested against the expropriation of their land, clashing sometimes violently with government and company forces, and today women lead this struggle against land grabbing. In this chapter we interpret women’s participation in protest movements in the light of feminist understandings of peace as inherently agonistic and involving struggle. We trace a shift from male to female leadership in the anti-land grab protests in Wongsorejo, arguing that they empowered women to enact everyday citizenship. We also trace the way in which gender was deployed strategically in this shift and how it informed performances of identity. During the Reformasi era, men led the protests, but women supported them in a subversive appropriation of the ideology of Ibuism. Today this gender division of protest has shifted, in part based on the idea that putting women at the front will ensure that protests are less violent. But this has also enabled the political empowerment of women and raised their status in the household. We argue that the protests allowed women to establish themselves as rights-bearing citizens and as skilled politicians. As they renegotiate gender relations in their families and communities, their struggle over land rights becomes a struggle for recognition of a new kind of peace.Wening UdasmoroElisabeth PrüglInstitut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développementarticleland grabbingpeacebuildinggenderland rightscitizenshipPolitical scienceJEconomic growth, development, planningHD72-88ENFRRevue Internationale de Politique de Développement, Vol 13 (2021)
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description	For the past twenty years, the residents of Wongsorejo in the East Java Regency of Banyuwangi have protested against the expropriation of their land, clashing sometimes violently with government and company forces, and today women lead this struggle against land grabbing. In this chapter we interpret women’s participation in protest movements in the light of feminist understandings of peace as inherently agonistic and involving struggle. We trace a shift from male to female leadership in the anti-land grab protests in Wongsorejo, arguing that they empowered women to enact everyday citizenship. We also trace the way in which gender was deployed strategically in this shift and how it informed performances of identity. During the Reformasi era, men led the protests, but women supported them in a subversive appropriation of the ideology of Ibuism. Today this gender division of protest has shifted, in part based on the idea that putting women at the front will ensure that protests are less violent. But this has also enabled the political empowerment of women and raised their status in the household. We argue that the protests allowed women to establish themselves as rights-bearing citizens and as skilled politicians. As they renegotiate gender relations in their families and communities, their struggle over land rights becomes a struggle for recognition of a new kind of peace.
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‘No Matter What—I’ve Got Rights’: Women’s Land Grab Protests in Banyuwangi, East Java

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