UNSPECIFIED (2022) The Reproduction of Global Narratives of Development and Capitalism in Indonesia: The Appropriation of Muslim Environmental Advocacy. Discussion Paper. IASH, Edinburgh. (Unpublished)
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This study investigates two cases of environmental advocacy by Muslim scholars from Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) which centred on the production of ethico-legal guidance, namely: a 2018 book “Fikih Energi Terbarukan” (Islamic Jurisprudence for Renewable Energy) and a fatwa against a nuclear power plant project in Jepara. It aims to decipher the process of colonization of Islamic narratives in a Muslim-majority country, namely Indonesia. In such countries, it is common that Islamic narratives provide additional rationale for engaging in global issues. Islamic ethical and legal guidance (e.g., jurisprudence) are frequently invoked to support global environmental narratives of advocacy. We argue that the routinisation of the creation of ethico-legal documents (fatwa) by select Muslim authoritative agents to inform and frame an environmental advocacy may create new problems, such as follow: First, our findings show that global environment narratives and prognoses have been uncritically adopted, even though they are not always relevant to the local problems or representing local perspective. Second, some Islamic narratives of environmental advocacy are still entangled with the reproduction of the logic of capitalism and developmentalism, which often works against environmental sustainability. Moreover, the increasing attention to the legal and textual approaches to environmentalism may intensify the internalization of Islamic cosmology and paradigm in Indonesia, and further erode people’s knowledge and memories of the indigenous cosmologies that have previously framed the interconnectivity between human and nature for centuries.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bath al-Masail, Decolonization, Nuclear Power Plant, Nahdlatul Ulama |
| Subjects: | Filsafat, Psikologi, Agama > BL Religion H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Ushuluddin Adab dan Dakwah > Pengembangan Masyarakat Islam |
| Depositing User: | H. Tohirin S.Ag |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2023 04:20 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Apr 2023 04:20 |
| URI: | http://repository.syekhnurjati.ac.id/id/eprint/10089 |
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