This study discusses disempowerment and collective action to change power relations, which means dismantling it by recognizing disempowerment. Carrying out recognition as a heuristic device and emphasizing the importance of paying attention to powerless subjects is a concern in carrying out this recognition. In recognizing the emergence of disempowerment, the most important thing is the [...]

The bumblebee fish, locally known as the gendang gendis fish, is small (around 2.5-4 cm) and used to be commonly found in the ditches of Pontianak but has become increasingly challenging to locate in recent years. This fish is becoming difficult to find in urban areas and is experiencing habitat reduction, likely caused by pollution [...]

Transparency enables the public to obtain information about the operations and structures of a given entity, e.g., government bodies or other powerful actors. In the extractive sector, transparency posits the disclosure of understandable, timely, and salient resource-related information, e.g., contract documents and revenue collection, that will increase the public's awareness of the sector's management. Information [...]

This project takes as its starting point that a number of recent geopolitical, socio-technological and environmental developments are reconfiguring the geographies of extraction worldwide. Taking the ongoing transition to sustainable energy in Europe as its starting point, the aim of this PhD project is to contribute to increased understanding of how these ongoing shifts are [...]

The main problem for the politics of energy transition is the selection of adequate material sources. New energy sources must ensure efficiency, minimal emissions, supply stability, inclusiveness of distribution, and affordability of prices. Rare Earth Elements (REE) is a type of mineral that has high magnetic and conductive properties so that it becomes the choice [...]