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Cultural activism, environmental (in)justice, and Indigenous (dis)possession: contesting mobilisations of heritage on a resource frontier in Peninsular Malaysia

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doi:10.1080/13527258.2025.2591629
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Yunci Cai
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2025
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University of Leicester

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The Indigenous Orang Seletar of Kampung Sungai Temon in Johor Bahru, Peninsular Malaysia, has long faced the escalating impacts of climate change. Since the 2000s, neoliberal processes resource extraction and economic growth have transformed Orang Seletar lands and waters into a resource frontier. Large-scale coastal reclamation for the Danga Bay waterfront project has encroached on their customary territories, causing severe pollution, destroying the rich fishing grounds, and threatening their traditional livelihoods. In response, the Orang Seletar have drawn on their cultural heritage and deep environmental knowledge to resist both territorial encroachment and pressures to assimilate into the mainstream Malay-Muslim society . Using settler colonialism as an analytical lens and based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with the Orang Seletar , I examine how cultural heritage is mobilised in the environmental and cultural struggles over rights and access to Indigenous territories. While climate change intensifies the environmental dispossession, native elimination and heritage erasure of the Orang Seletar through ongoing settler colonisation processes, it also opens the space for mobilising their cultural heritage to resist environmental and social injustices. By analysing different framings and configurations of cultural heritage in these territorial contests, I highlight the omplex and often ambiguous relationship between cultural heritage and environmental justice.

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Yunci Cai. Cultural activism, environmental (in)justice, and Indigenous (dis)possession: contesting mobilisations of heritage on a resource frontier in Peninsular Malaysia. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2025.2591629

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Yunci Cai. (2025). Cultural activism, environmental (in)justice, and Indigenous (dis)possession: contesting mobilisations of heritage on a resource frontier in Peninsular Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2025.2591629
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Yunci Cai. Cultural activism, environmental (in)justice, and Indigenous (dis)possession: contesting mobilisations of heritage on a resource frontier in Peninsular Malaysia. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2025.2591629
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Yunci Cai. Cultural activism, environmental (in)justice, and Indigenous (dis)possession: contesting mobilisations of heritage on a resource frontier in Peninsular Malaysia. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2025.2591629

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