YJP Press: "Water, Land & Rhetoric of Body: Studies on the Interface of SRHR & Climate Change"
Due date: 20 September 2014
Paper submitted to ([email protected])
It was a warm Boyolali afternoon a year ago today when I was welcomed by community in Selo. I remember inhaling that strawberry scent of new volcanic ash and the mingling soft sand from above and thinking: “this is the smell of eruption”. As a teenager I climbed Mount Merapi more than seven times, so my interest in the volcano has been fairly attached and intimate. If you care about the things I do, like Merapi and her image, then you cannot escape her, her huge sandy top illustrating the mighty power, her dismembered forests the cover of hundred villages in her valley. There is a rise and fall in newspapers, magazine, TV news on her proportions of explosion creating unrealistic panic standards, her witnesses, her role in fertilizing satellite regions of Magelang, Yogyakarta, Klaten, Boyolali, Salatiga and Semarang, against illegal sand mining, a tide always damaging locals village streets. Merapi shows that rather than entrusting the environment to unwieldy NGOs and international committees, community must assume personal responsibility and local sovereignty as its primary ecology safeguard. Local resistant to illegal logging has proven that it is the children of Merapi that played foremost role in guarding the livelihood of the forest.
Ecofeminism argues that trees, animals, land and water have its own system of thinking and communicating—a ragbag of postmodernism favoring instead mutual, interdependent, emotional gravitas rather than all kitsch and commodity. How the stone whispers, why the water is raging, and how the land thinks—assuming paradigm of humility and equal footing between human being and other non-human being. This edited volume shall offer an accessible and thorough review of a literature rarely discussed in such subversive notion of un-reading the modern myth of earth as “natural resources”. Main argument throughout the study shall centre on the twin pillars of earth-autonomy and un-reading modern paradigm of natural sources, for which I use the term “oikophilia”—love of the house (Earth). Authors of this volume shall address narrative of water, land, and rhetoric of body: arguing that environmental problems should not be confiscated by the state alone instead of re-reading the andocentric reading of ecological text. This volume will start with discussion on “sexuality and reproductive health and rights” (SRHR) presenting her-story of water and land enabling this book to delve more deeply into ideas of natural femininity that often lost in present hi-story. My description of oikophilia will connect our reckless pursuit of individual gratification that jeopardizes our mother planet, Earth as well as female bodies. This volume shall advocate demand response, suggesting that each of us has responsibility to un-do the way we perceive body, sexuality, nature and climate change. Rereading narrative of faith in Islam and Christianity will be endeavored as well. Conservative politics in interpreting the faith is becoming significant addition to a body of work that does traditionally attract present modern Indonesia who discussed heavily on religiosity. Working broadly across the climate and energy sectors shall make this book reconsider research on renewable energy policies in green farming, seed production, climate mitigation policy, and methods of communicating scientific and policy research on climate change to incentivise systemic innovation and change throughout religious-based universities such as Islamic, Christian-Catholic, and other system of beliefs in Indonesia under the umbrella of eco-feminist philosophy. (dc)
Published by (YJP Press, PPSG-UKSW, Canadian Embassy)
Due date: 20 September 2014
Paper submitted to ([email protected])
Editor: Dewi Candraningrum & Katharine McGregor
Othering, Gendered Land and Indonesian Document of SRHR
Contributors:
1. Gold and Silver, Branded Horses and Well-Tilled Land: Gender and Hadrami Migration
Ismail Fajrie Alatas (Michigan University)
2. Ianfu and the Discourse of Sexuality in Indonesian Politics
Katharina McGregor (Melbourne University)
3. Water, SRHR and Discourse of Natural Batik
Arianti Ina Restiani Hunga (UKSW)
4. Female Prophets and the Indonesian’s Perceptions: Discourse on Islamic Theology
Al Makin (UIN Yogyakarta)
5. Politics, SRHR & Climate Change: a Documentation of 2014 Indonesian Election
Anita Dhewy (Universitas Indonesia)
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Ecofeminism argues that trees, animals, land and water have its own system of thinking and communicating—a ragbag of postmodernism favoring instead mutual, interdependent, emotional gravitas rather than all kitsch and commodity. How the stone whispers, why the water is raging, and how the land thinks—assuming paradigm of humility and equal footing between human being and other non-human being. This edited volume shall offer an accessible and thorough review of a literature rarely discussed in such subversive notion of un-reading the modern myth of earth as “natural resources”. Main argument throughout the study shall centre on the twin pillars of earth-autonomy and un-reading modern paradigm of natural sources, for which I use the term “oikophilia”—love of the house (Earth). Authors of this volume shall address narrative of water, land, and rhetoric of body: arguing that environmental problems should not be confiscated by the state alone instead of re-reading the andocentric reading of ecological text. This volume will start with discussion on “sexuality and reproductive health and rights” (SRHR) presenting her-story of water and land enabling this book to delve more deeply into ideas of natural femininity that often lost in present hi-story. My description of oikophilia will connect our reckless pursuit of individual gratification that jeopardizes our mother planet, Earth as well as female bodies. This volume shall advocate demand response, suggesting that each of us has responsibility to un-do the way we perceive body, sexuality, nature and climate change. Rereading narrative of faith in Islam and Christianity will be endeavored as well. Conservative politics in interpreting the faith is becoming significant addition to a body of work that does traditionally attract present modern Indonesia who discussed heavily on religiosity. Working broadly across the climate and energy sectors shall make this book reconsider research on renewable energy policies in green farming, seed production, climate mitigation policy, and methods of communicating scientific and policy research on climate change to incentivise systemic innovation and change throughout religious-based universities such as Islamic, Christian-Catholic, and other system of beliefs in Indonesia under the umbrella of eco-feminist philosophy. (dc)
Published by (YJP Press, PPSG-UKSW, Canadian Embassy)
Due date: 20 September 2014
Paper submitted to ([email protected])
Editor: Dewi Candraningrum & Katharine McGregor
Othering, Gendered Land and Indonesian Document of SRHR
Contributors:
1. Gold and Silver, Branded Horses and Well-Tilled Land: Gender and Hadrami Migration
Ismail Fajrie Alatas (Michigan University)
2. Ianfu and the Discourse of Sexuality in Indonesian Politics
Katharina McGregor (Melbourne University)
3. Water, SRHR and Discourse of Natural Batik
Arianti Ina Restiani Hunga (UKSW)
4. Female Prophets and the Indonesian’s Perceptions: Discourse on Islamic Theology
Al Makin (UIN Yogyakarta)
5. Politics, SRHR & Climate Change: a Documentation of 2014 Indonesian Election
Anita Dhewy (Universitas Indonesia)
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