{"id":3427,"date":"2026-03-16T20:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthropology.fisip.ui.ac.id\/uncategorized\/the-9th-international-symposium-of-jurnal-antropologi-indonesia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:58:58","slug":"the-9th-international-symposium-of-jurnal-antropologi-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthropology.fisip.ui.ac.id\/en\/international-programs\/the-9th-international-symposium-of-jurnal-antropologi-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"The 9th International Symposium of Jurnal Antropologi Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” disable_element=”yes” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” top_margin=”-3%” top_margin_phone=”-30px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_gallery css=”” type=”flickity_static_height_style” images=”3428″ flickity_spacing=”5px” flickity_controls=”next_prev_arrows_overlaid” flickity_overflow=”hidden” flickity_wrap_around=”no-wrap” flickity_box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” onclick=”custom_link” custom_links_target=”_blank” custom_links=”https:\/\/bit.ly\/callforpanel-isjai2026″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” bottom_padding=”4%” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default” el_class=”justify”]The 9th International Symposium of Jurnal Antropologi Indonesia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pluriversal Futures in a Multipolarising World: Global South Perspectives<\/h2>\n

4-7 August 2026<\/em>
\nFISIP Universitas Indonesia, Depok Campus<\/em><\/p>\n

The early twenty-first century has witnessed a profound transformation in the global political landscape. The dominance of a single geopolitical order is gradually giving way to an increasingly multipolar world, shaped by shifting political-economic alliances, competing political projects, emergent regional powers, and new forms of South\u2013South cooperation. These changes are reshaping international governance, economic flows, technological infrastructures, and environmental politics. For communities across the Global South, such geopolitical shifts are experienced not only through policy and diplomacy but also in the intimacy of everyday life\u2014affecting livelihoods, aspirations, and imaginaries of the future.<\/p>\n

Anthropology offers critical tools for understanding how these global realignments are lived, negotiated, and resisted. Rather than assuming a universal trajectory of modernity anchored in Western political and economic models, anthropologists increasingly draw on pluriversal perspectives (Blaser & de la Cadena 2018; Escobar 2020). These perspectives recognize that multiple, coexisting worlds\u2014ontological, political, and ecological\u2014shape social life. A pluriversal lens rejects the notion of a single hegemonic global future and instead insists on the legitimacy of many futures rooted in diverse histories, cosmologies, and social projects.<\/p>\n

This symposium theme brings together these two strands: the geopolitics of multipolarisation and the anthropological imperative to engage with pluriversality. It asks how emerging global configurations create both cultural possibilities and tensions for alternative futures in the Global South, and how different communities mobilize relational, ethical, ecological, and historical resources to shape their place in a rapidly shifting world order. Anthropologists can ground these geopolitical transformations in their articulation with specific socio-cultural realities, revealing how global international orders and planetary environmental shifts intersect with inequality, gender, kinship, livelihoods, land struggles, climate crises, and everyday hopes and uncertainties.<\/p>\n

The idea of pluriversal futures foregrounds the existence of multiple, co-produced visions of what a good and livable life entails. In many parts of the Global South, futures are crafted through indigenous and spiritual ontologies, alternative economies and solidarities, ritual and moral worlds, provincialized modern scientific values and practices, multispecies relationalities, community care, mutual aid, social reproduction, local ecological knowledge, climate adaptation, and political imagination from below. These futures often stand in tension with dominant geopolitical narratives\u2014whether neoliberal, nationalist, developmentalist, or technocratic. A pluriversal approach therefore highlights the creative and relational worlds that people build in the interstices of global structures.<\/p>\n

Significance for the Global South<\/h2>\n

The Global South is not merely receiving the effects of multipolarisation; it is actively shaping emerging world orders. Across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Oceania, new forms of South\u2013South cooperation, regional cultural politics, environmental negotiations, and technological partnerships are transforming how societies envision their future place in the world.<\/p>\n

Indonesia, with its own diplomatic and cultural projects, is uniquely positioned to contribute to these transformations. Its complex assemblage of Indigenous worlds, religious pluralities, ecological challenges, and ongoing political transformations makes it a critical site for exploring how pluriversal futures are crafted within a multipolarising global landscape.<\/p>\n

This symposium therefore positions the Global South as an epistemic center rather than a periphery, offering conceptual innovations and grounded ethnographic insights that contribute to broader debates on global transformations.<\/p>\n

Objectives of the Symposium<\/h2>\n
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  1. To illuminate how geopolitical multipolarisation is experienced, interpreted, and contested through everyday life, cultural practices, and local politics.<\/li>\n
  2. To foreground pluriversal approaches that highlight diverse ontologies, ethical worlds, and alternative visions of the future.<\/li>\n
  3. To promote anthropological scholarship that centers Global South perspectives in understanding contemporary global transformations.<\/li>\n
  4. To explore multispecies, ecological, spiritual, and relational forms of future-making in the context of environmental crises.<\/li>\n
  5. To create a space for interdisciplinary and multimodal dialogue on the intersection of geopolitics, ethics, care, and local world-building practices.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” equal_height=”yes” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_color=”#F3F3F3F3″ scene_position=”center” top_padding=”4%” bottom_padding=”2%” left_padding_desktop=”10%” constrain_group_2=”yes” right_padding_desktop=”10%” top_padding_phone=”50″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” row_name=”Sign Up Steps” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”top-bottom” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” offset=”vc_col-xs-12″][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bottom_padding=”4%” bottom_padding_phone=”50″ text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default” max_width=”700″]\n

    Accepted Panel<\/h1>\n

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    Keydates<\/h2>\n