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Making Transparency in Bojonegoro, East Java, Indonesia: Local Transparency and the Materio-Spatial Configuration of Oil

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Norm localization plays a crucial role in shaping the extent to which global norms are transformed into values and political imperatives at the national and subnational levels. Viewing norm localization as a political process influenced by materio-spatial elements, this article uses an empirical investigation to explore how the materiality of oil determines the localization of transparency in the extractive sector. Drawing from the case of two oil-producing villages in Bojonegoro Regency, East Java, Indonesia, and their experiences between 2000 and 2018, this paper investigates the role of the materio-spatial configuration of oil-the physical and political features of oil, as determined by its biophysics-in the localization of transparency. This paper shows that the localization of transparency in the extractive sector is a "work of assemblage", wherein the materiality of oil enables associated actor-networks (with various agencies and objectives) to shape and embed transparency within the local context. Given that oil is a global commodity, the localization of transparency is not a linear process, but rather an ever-changing mechanism, one that spans from the local through the subnational, national, and even transnational. The larger the oil reserve, the greater the efforts of efforts actor-networks to embed transparency within the local context. Using the new-materialism approach and poststructuralist perspective, this paper seeks an alternative explanation of norm localization, as a process through which transparency is implemented, in the extractive sector. This paper attempts to contribute to the discussion of norm localization, which has recently been dominated by debate between the constructivist and institutional approaches.

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