Batek Cosmopolitics in the Early Twenty-First Century

This chapter explores the politics of indigenous cosmologies and shamanic practices in the early twenty-first century, a period marked by rampant environment destruction and climatic change. Through an examination of Batek eco-cosmologies and cosmopolitical relations with other-than-human beings, the chapter focuses on transformations to these relations and discourses about shamanistic practices. The forest periphery is a site of complex interconnection with a variety of actors and agencies of the forest and the local and larger national and globalized human environment. From this peripheral location, Batek shamans have reassembled relations with other-than-human beings and built new discourses about environmental changes.