Assembling the 'field': conducting research in Indonesia's emerging green economy

Abstract: "New forms of environmental governance, such as the green economy, premise reconfigurations of social relations and rearticulations of scale, which raise myriad questions for field researchers, not least of all, what actually constitutes 'the field', and where it is to be found. These questions - practical, methodological, political, and personal - are integral to research itself and can tell us much about the dynamic forms that social organization and emerging governance structures take in practice. This contribution discusses the methodological challenges associated with 'doing fieldwork' in the amorphous networks of an emerging environmental governance assemblage - the green economy. Drawing on my fieldwork in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, I argue that by interrogating the positionality of different actors in relation to this assemblage, while remaining critically reflexive about one's own role in this production, field researchers can capture something of the rich embodied practi

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet ; In: ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies ; 9 (2016) 1 ; 173-179

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2016
• Creator: Anderson, Zachary R.

Further information

• DOI: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-2016.1-11
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019071014513001735688
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 15.08.2025, 7:30 AM CEST