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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Alice Rudge Abstract Oil palm plantations often produce figurations of heroism and villainy attributed to human and nonhuman actors. Yet these categories may mask the subtleties of local experiences. Indigenous Batek people in Malaysia highly value the autonomy of both plants and people...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 697–708.
Published: 01 November 2024
... would work for them on a drastically changed river. Neither clearly heroes nor villains, island kings remained as unknowable as the faraway governments shaping the life and flow of the Mekong. If Johnson’s interlocutors were haunted by ontological “indeterminacy,” 15 the Batek plantation workers...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 842–849.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., troubling, and often unpredictable social lives. In her article in this collection, Alice Rudge shows how Batek people in Malaysia oppose the binary logics of environmentalist discourses by treating oil palms as “planted objects” and “means to an end” rather than as “autonomous botanical persons.” 10...