About the Summer School
As a continuation of the summer school on the environment that has been held successfully for several years at the Department of History, UGM, this year’s summer school raises the theme of human ecology in facing the challenges of creating new environmental governance for the 21st century. Referring back to the capitalocene critique of the problems of environmental governance shaped by capitalism in the 20th and 21st centuries, this summer school aims to explore the ontological forms of environmental governance outside of capitalist extractivism and state modernization. Here, we will explore and recall stories and knowledge that have long been held in the collective cultural memory of Indonesians – and imagine forms of ecological nationhood and citizenship rooted in local traditions and understandings.