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Title: | Sailing-Trading Livelihoods in Southeastern Indonesia: Adapting to Change | Contributor(s): | Carnegie, Michelle (author) | Publication Date: | 2014 | DOI: | 10.1163/15685314-12341330 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/23387 | Abstract: | Sailing-trading livelihoods in southeastern Indonesia have undergone significant change during the later half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. This study identifies how geopolitical, economic, legal and technological drivers of change shape sailing-trading livelihoods. Using an integrated approach, it shows how these macro-level drivers articulate with sailor-traders' individual and group-based responses at the local level. The findings highlight that over the study period, small-scale inter-island trading within Indonesia's borders became increasingly competitive and monopolised. In response, sailor-traders strategically adopted new opportunities that involve international border crossings, including to Australia to harvest sea cucumber, transport asylum seekers and undertake work while serving prison terms. The concluding remarks are that while aspects of contemporary sailing-trading livelihoods are temporal and unsustainable, the overall ebb and flow of livelihoods reflects a broader pattern of adaptive responses amidst ongoing change. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Asian Journal of Social Science, 41(6), p. 543-579 | Publisher: | Brill | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 2212-3857 1568-4849 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160401 Economic Geography 160101 Anthropology of Development 160499 Human Geography not elsewhere classified |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440602 Development geography 440101 Anthropology of development 440499 Development studies not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Environmental and Rural Science |
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