epistemic violence
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In the interest, the knowledge struggles to understand the natural resources, when the tradition of burning fields is considered to be deforestation. There are other factors that illustrate that when the state technocratically mobilizes institutions, technology and "scientific" approaches (remote sensing, regulation and statistics). In hegemonic knowledge-based violence, the technology and scientific variables controlled by state groups (technocrats-intellectuals) often injustice and commit violence. Global agricultural and population statistics variables that are biased on capitalist-patriarchal economics cause women cultivators to become non-class subjects. Hotspot-based technology causes the tradition of burning to be politicized and victim blaming. Hegemonic violence causes women cultivators to become victims and the cultural knowledge of farming and burning in fields is silent. In this case, global agricultural and population statistics variables that are biased towards capitalist-patriarchal economics cause women cultivators to become non-class subjects. Women cultivators are victims of administrative injustice and government subordination. Women cultivators are victims of data politics and global stigmatization. Furthermore, the implementation of regulations that cut down living sites, cultural sites and women's independence has led the Ngaju people community towards genocide. Women cultivators and indigenous peoples are victims of the politicization of their existence and cultural knowledge.
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This study uses postcolonial feminist studies in an epistemic violence concept. In this concept, the term decolonization is introduced as a method of liberation from colonial violence or an anti-colonial perspective. In line with decolonization, this study utilizes storytelling through daily conversations as a primary data collection tool, that of the women cultivator Oloh Ngaju as key informant. Research focuses on 2 subtribes of Oloh Ngaju on Central of Borneo, namely Oloh Marikoi and Oloh Mantangai Hulu. Marikoi Village is located in the Damang Batu sub-district, Gunung Mas district is a representation of mineral and cultivators (semi-settled). Mantangai Hulu Village, in Mantangai sub-district, Kapuas district, is a representation of peatland cultivators (non-active); the location of the former PLG and the current Food Estate program. The research was conducted from April 2023 to June 2024. This study calls Oloh Ngaju to refer to the Dayak community, avoiding the name "given" by outsiders which has insulting connotations for the indigenous people of Borneo or cultivators. Local people call themselves Oloh (people) Ngaju (living in the headwater areas) as a daily term in the sense of the people who live in the headwater of the Kapuas and Kahayan rivers. Most of the Oloh Ngaju are cultivators, and a small number are traders and forest product collectors. The Ngaju tribe has been independent politically and economically in trade with the Malay tribe in Singapore since 1846 (Schärer, 1963) .
Institutions
- Universitas Gadjah MadaDaerah Istimewa Yogyakart, Yogyakarta