Constraint without Coercion: Indirect Repression of Environmental Protest in Malaysia

Yew, Wei Lit

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“…Trust in authorities may nurture receptiveness, if not avoid obstructiveness, to government intervention (Kim and Thurbon 2015; Svallfors 2013). Second, in authoritarian countries where states are gatekeepers to governance processes, and the threat of repression or coercion looms over challengers to authority (Böhmelt 2014; Yew 2016), nonstate actors may rely on trust building in informal networks to access and engage with powerful actors, or to avoid violating local political norms such as losing face (e.g., see Karkkainen 2004; Marquardt 2017; Nair 2019). Colonial and authoritarian legacies can also inspire nationalism and hence trust that facilitates state‐societal engagement in socio‐economic development (Haque 2013; Kenney‐Lazar 2019).…”

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Trust in the Process: Renewable Energy Governance in Malaysia and Indonesia

Anuar

Dewayanti

2021

Politics & Policy

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Studies on renewable energy (RE) policies and policy making have generally focused on the Global North. This article homes in on how trust, an underexamined concept in the multi‐level governance literature, affects RE trajectories in Malaysia and Indonesia. Through comparative analysis, we find that different levels of trust result in similar degrees of RE policy support, but dissimilar degrees of engagement between state and societal actors in RE policy making. Negative expectations of the social grievances engendered by RE transitions contribute to reluctant, though legitimized, pursuits of clean energy production and consumption. Meanwhile, trust in actors' nationalism—that is, in opposing a Global North environmental agenda and demonstrating constitutionally aligned resource management in Malaysia and Indonesia, respectively—facilitates more inclusive policy making. Due to greater nationalism, Indonesia's state‐society engagement in RE governance is stronger and leads to a civil RE movement that outpaces Malaysia's overall. Related Articles Ash, John. 2010. “New Nuclear Energy, Risk, and Justice: Regulatory Strategies for an era of Limited Trust.” Politics & Policy 38 (2): 225‐284. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00237.x Khodr, Hiba, and Isabella Ruble. 2013. “Energy Policies and Domestic Politics in the MENA Region in the Aftermath of the Arab Upheavals: The Cases of Lebanon, Libya, and KSA.” Politics & Policy 41 (5): 656‐689. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12033 Wood, Steve. 2009. “Energy Security, Normative Dilemmas, and Institutional Camouflage: Europe's Pragmatism.” Politics & Policy 37 (3): 611‐635. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2009.00187.x

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Section: Literature Review: Wither the Politics?mentioning

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Trust in the Process: Renewable Energy Governance in Malaysia and Indonesia

Anuar

Dewayanti

2021

Politics & Policy

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“…As such, they involve repertoires aimed at making activist work difficult, ranging from criminalization and imprisonment of leaders and members (the most reported violation by human right activists, which often subjects them to lengthy, stressful, and expensive legal proceedings), to bureaucratic barriers and censorship, to semiformal measures such as the sponsoring of countermovements or restrictions of NGO funding (FLD 2020; Protection International 2015). By turning the process of mobilization into a form of punishment, these tactics deny activists rewards or meaningful experiences and foment sentiments of frustration, inefficacy, and hopelessness (Lit Yew 2016, 561). Moreover, competition for scarcer resources contributes to organizational atomization and weakened solidarities, in addition to inducing partial disengagement because some groups may moderate their strategies to avoid penalties.…”

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Exhaustion, Adversity, and Repression: Emotional Attrition in High-Risk Activism

Peña¹,

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Nah³

2021

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The article proposes the notion of emotional attrition to capture the process through which activists working in high-risk environments may develop a lasting state of emotional exhaustion caused by protracted exposure to adversarial conditions. Combining insights from clinical psychology and the sociology of emotions, it outlines a novel framework to understand the relationship between activism, emotions, and disengagement. We argue that activists can develop an emotional state characterized by dispiriting emotions and disengaging attitudes that affect their well-being and ability to sustain their activism. This argument is grounded on an in-depth analysis of more than 130 interviews with local human rights activists in Colombia, Kenya, and Indonesia. By examining their experiences and pressures in relation to the arena of repression, their immediate social circle, and the broader sociopolitical and cultural context, we shed light on the complex intersections between activists’ emotional challenges and the range of contextual and strategic factors shaping their work and lives.

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“… 61. Environmentalists have typically faced constraints from non-coercive bureaucratic actions. Wei Lit Yew, Constraint without coercion: Indirect repression of environmental protest in Malaysia, Pacific Affairs 89(3), 2016: 543–65. …”

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Disembedding lawful activism in contemporary China: The confrontational politics of a green NGO’s legal mobilization

Yew

2017

China Information

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Recent legal reforms in China, particularly amendments in 2014 to the Environmental Protection Law, have encouraged environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) to embrace legal strategies in their advocacy. However, the wider significance of such strategies remains understudied and underestimated. This article examines one such example in Xiamen, Fujian Province, where an ENGO, incensed by the conversion of walkways into parking spaces, led the first administrative lawsuit in the name of ‘pedestrians’ rights’ (行人路权) in China in early 2015. Based on digital ethnography and participant observation, the case illustrates three salient points: first, legal mobilization is conflict-laden and confrontational; second, depoliticized legal actions belie the development of popular critical consciousness; and third, professional ties have become more instrumental than connections with state officials. The net result is then an embedded activism that evinces disembedding tensions. This questions conventional expectations over Chinese environmental activism, that it is non-confrontational and overdependent on personal relations with local officials. In addition to elucidating the disembedding processes and experiences absent in previous ENGO literature, this exploratory research offers a snapshot of lawful activism among environmentalists, illustrating the wider opportunities and challenges accompanying ‘the turn to law’.

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Constraint without Coercion: Indirect Repression of Environmental Protest in Malaysia

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Trust in the Process: Renewable Energy Governance in Malaysia and Indonesia

Trust in the Process: Renewable Energy Governance in Malaysia and Indonesia

Exhaustion, Adversity, and Repression: Emotional Attrition in High-Risk Activism

Disembedding lawful activism in contemporary China: The confrontational politics of a green NGO’s legal mobilization

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