The Construction of Grievance: Natural Resources and Identity in a Separatist Conflict

dc.contributor.authorAspinall, Edward
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T22:13:53Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.updated2015-12-08T07:46:30Z
dc.description.abstractThis article makes a case for extending social constructivist approaches to the study of grievance in natural resource conflicts. It does this by analyzing the separatist conflict in Aceh, Indonesia, which is often portrayed as a paradigmatic resource conflict due to the importance of the natural gas industry there. It is argued here, however, that natural resource exploitation promoted conflict in Aceh only because it became entangled in wider processes of identity construction and was reinterpreted back to the population by ethnic political entrepreneurs in a way that legitimated violence. Rather than any intrinsic qualities of natural resource extraction, the key factor was the presence of an appropriate identity-based collective action frame. The argument is strengthened by comparison with two other resource-rich Indonesian provinces where resource extraction patterns were similar to Aceh but where no protracted violence occurred because similar identity resources were not available to local actors.
dc.identifier.issn0022-0027
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/29992
dc.publisherSage Publications Inc
dc.sourceJournal of Conflict Resolution
dc.subjectKeywords: Aceh; Civil war; Constructivism; Resource extraction; Separatism
dc.titleThe Construction of Grievance: Natural Resources and Identity in a Separatist Conflict
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue6
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage104
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage950
local.contributor.affiliationAspinall, Edward, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu4015970@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidAspinall, Edward, u4015970
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160603 - Comparative Government and Politics
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4038776xPUB70
local.identifier.citationvolume51
local.identifier.doi10.1177/0022002707307120
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-36049002129
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4038776
local.type.statusPublished Version

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