Personal data
Name: Yulia Sugandi
Email: ysugandi[at]gmail.com
Status: PhD candidate
Institut für Ethnologie
Westfälische Wilhelms- Universität Münster
Studtstrasse 21
48149 Münster
Germany
Areas of interest
Ethno development
Cultural rights
Crisis prevention and Conflict Transformation
Social capital
Human Security
Collective Identity
Current PhD project
PhD topic: Progress and collective dignity in Palim valley, Papua
Major: Ethnology, Faculty of Philosophy
Minor: Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences
Project Description
My current Dissertation is on Progress and Collective Dignity in Grand valley, Papua. My central themes concern on how the Hubula (indigenous of Grand valley) conceptually construct and volarise their collective social identity; how they express this in ritual actions and in the production and exchange of cultural artefacts; and how the Government of Indonesia (GoI) and the Roman Catholic church impact upon and transform this collective identity. During my one year field research which was ended March 2008, I gained some data on Hubula including forms of social life, their mythical, ritual and cosmological foundations and their intricate system of ceremonial exchanges are subject to various form of intervention. In addition, I noted the encounter with modern institutions such as the GoI propagated integration of Hubula, the encroaching impact of market economy on the local forms of livelihood and their resources, the Catholic Church as well as the subordination of the society's own forms authority and leadership to the political institutions of the GoI.
Recent Publication
Series of Country-Related Conflict Analyses: Province of Papua, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2008.
Sustainable development and human security from Ethnological perspectives, in Birkmann, Joern, et.al., eds., Working Paper No.3 - Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development in Tsunami Affected Countries, United Nations University- Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Bonn,2007.
Rural safety valve in Sambas conflict, in Glenn Smith et Hélène Bouvier, eds., Communal Conflicts in Kalimantan- Perpectives from the LIPI-CNRS Conflict Studies Program, PDII-LIPI ; Lasema, Paris, 2006.
