Subaltern and Network Strategy Towards Fishermen Community in Aru Islands District

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10.2991/assehr.k.201014.128How to use a DOI?

Keywords

subaltern, fishermen, network strategy

Abstract

The fishermen community in Aru Islands district is a sulbatern group that lives by relying on fishing products income. However, when encountered with a condition where the income declines due to the government’s policy, then what should be done by subalterns while they do not have the voice to speak, what strategies should they use to get out of the existing problems and crisis. According to Spivak subaltern is a marginal group that has always been the object of a dominant and powerful class (both from within and outside groups). This study employs a qualitative research method with a constructive paradigm where the researcher tries to reconstruct social dialectics that occurs in subaltern of Aru fishermen with a case study approach. The results of the study reveal that the conditions experienced by sulbatern groups in fishermen community in Aru Islands district have limited aspiration forum for stakeholders in voicing subaltern interests, injustice in fishing equipment distribution, and lacked of skills as well as access to economic assistance are the root of the causes of poverty of subaltern group. It is in line with Spivak’s opinion that the relations which exist between subalterns and intellectuals such as the “master servant” relation of the voice of the subalterns cannot be sought because the oppressed cannot speak. Therefore, an intellectual cannot claim and romanticize his ability to seek the voices of subaltern groups, such claims are precisely like colonials because he generalizes (homogenize) the diversity of subaltern groups and ultimately constitute an “epistemological violence” against groups - subaltern groups.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nuraida Kubangun
AU  - Andi Agustang
AU  - Arlin Adam
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/15
TI  - Subaltern and Network Strategy Towards Fishermen Community in Aru Islands District
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 585
EP  - 588
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201014.128
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201014.128
ID  - Kubangun2020
ER  -