Reproductive Justice in the Hindu Balinese Compound: Community, Property and Development

Franklin Obeng-Odoom
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Franklin Obeng-Odoom: Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

Journal of Developing Societies, 2024, vol. 40, issue 1, 27-51

Abstract: Building communities is one way to limit inequality in the global development process. In Indonesia, that principle can best be illustrated in the Hindu Balinese compound. But does discrimination against women, especially those of lower class and caste, fundamentally undermine the community? Feminists contend so, but what is the nature of the pressure on Balinese women? Why is this experienced? How could this discrimination be resolved? Drawing on a wider intersectional feminism, primary data from 72 people and thematic analysis, it seems both the reproductive and property rights of Balinese women are constrained. But ordinary Balinese women, activists, and intellectuals do not share the Western feminist case of dismantling communities for individual human rights. Instead, Balinese people largely advocate Hindu community alternatives, at the heart of which is strengthening the institution of ‘nyentana’. This alternative helps to decolonize “gender,†and reproductive justice, while putting the case for studying social economics a bit more in development studies.

Keywords: Gender; class; caste; social economics; community; Indonesia; land (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/0169796X231223817

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