Our new article in Globalizations is out: 'Extracting from the periphery: authoritarian extractivism and subnational poverty in Indonesia's extractive heartlands', based on fieldwork across three extractive frontiers in 2025.
We argue that subnational authoritarian arrangements (not just weak institutions or bad luck) are what keep local populations poor even as resource revenues flow out. District elites, concession holders, and security apparatus form durable coalitions that capture extraction's gains while offloading its costs onto the communities sitting on top of the resource.
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