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Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1981 Apr 01. 29(3), 673-678.
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Sien, Chia Lin
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 1983 Mar 01. 14(1), 209-211.
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DESSAINT, ALAIN Y.
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Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 1979 Apr 01. 6(2), 199-199.
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Upland Geopolitics : Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush
Michael B. Dwyer;Michael B. Dwyer
In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly p...
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Upland Geopolitics : Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush
2022
In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished'land-rich'countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia highlights the link between the shifting geopolitics of economic development and problems of food security, climate change, and regional and international trade. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, Upland Geopolitics uses the case of Chinese agribusiness investment in northern Laos to study the unbalanced geography of the new global land rush. Connecting the current rubber plantation boom to a longer trajectory of foreign intervention in the region, Upland Geopolitics reveals how legacies of Cold War conflict continue to pave the way for transnational enclosure in a socially uneven landscape.Upland Geopolitics is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Indiana University.DOI: 10.6069/9780295750507
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Rubber plantations--Political aspects--Laos - Rubber industry and trade--Laos--Foreign ownership - Land tenure--Laos - Land use, Rural--Government policy--Laos - Uplands--Economic aspects--Laos - Investments, Foreign--Laos - Rural development--Laos - Economic development--LaosContent provider:
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THE ARTICULATION OF CULTURE, AGRICULTURE , AND THE ENVIRONMENT OF CHINESE IN NORTHERN THAILAND .
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Ethnology. Winter2005, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p1-11. 11p. 1 Map.
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Huang Shu-min
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Ethnology. Winter2005, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p1-11. 11p. 1 Map.
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Van Roy, Edward
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Economic Development Apr81, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p673-678, 6p
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Economic Development Apr81, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p673-678, 6p
Reviews the book 'Farmers in the Forest : Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand ,' edited by Peter Kunstadter , E.C. Chapman and Sangha Sabhasri.
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FARMERS in the Forest (Book) - AGRICULTURAL policy - NONFICTIONContent provider:
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The 'Karen Consensus', Ethnic Politics and Resource-Use Legitimacy in Northern Thailand .
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Asian Ethnicity. Sep2001, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p145-162. 18p.
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Walker, Andrew
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Asian Ethnicity. Sep2001, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p145-162. 18p.
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Contesting Landscapes in Thailand : Tree Ordination as Counter-territorialization.
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Critical Asian Studies. Sep2002, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p395-417. 23p.
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Isager, Lotte;Ivarsson, Søren
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Critical Asian Studies. Sep2002, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p395-417. 23p.
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The Emergence of an Environmentally Conscious and Buddhism-Friendly Marginalized Hmong Religious Sect along the Laos-Thailand Border.
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Asian Ethnology. 2020, Vol. 79 Issue 2, p313-333. 21p.
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BAIRD, IAN G.
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Asian Ethnology. 2020, Vol. 79 Issue 2, p313-333. 21p.
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The ethnic Hmong people in Laos and Thailand are frequently--and often unfairly--stere...
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The Emergence of an Environmentally Conscious and Buddhism-Friendly Marginalized Hmong Religious Sect along the Laos-Thailand Border.
Asian Ethnology. 2020, Vol. 79 Issue 2, p313-333. 21p.
The ethnic Hmong people in Laos and Thailand are frequently--and often unfairly--stereotyped as destructive hunters of wildlife, and as the destroyers of forests through "pioneer" forms of swidden cultivation. They are also commonly labeled as users and traders of illegal drugs, and as not being respectful of state power. This article looks at how a marginalized group of Hmong living along the Laos-Thailand border have established a particular millenarian religious sect to promote a form of frontier modernism designed to address these criticisms. Although the Ee Bi Mi Nu religious sect does not identify itself as having been established as a response to lowlander critiques, the sect nevertheless acts as such. The Ee Bi Hmong have adopted religious practices that they claim are much closer to the real and original essence of being "Hmong," even if their origins appear to be much more contemporary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Shifting cultivation - Hunters - Drug traffic - State power - Hmong (Asian people)Content provider:
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Remaining Karen : A Study of Cultural Reproduction and the Maintenance of Identity
Ananda Rajah;Ananda Rajah
This publication of Remaining Karen is intended as a tribute to Ananda Rajah and his c...
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Remaining Karen : A Study of Cultural Reproduction and the Maintenance of Identity
2008
This publication of Remaining Karen is intended as a tribute to Ananda Rajah and his consummate skills as an ethnographer. It is also a tribute to his long-term engagement in the study of the Karen. Remaining Karen was Ananda Rajah's first focused study of the Sgaw Karen of Palokhi in northern Thailand , which he submitted in 1986 for this PhD in the Department of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. It is a work of superlative ethnography set in an historical and regional context and as such retains its value to the present.
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Ethnology--Thailand--Chiang Mai (Province) - Sgaw Karen (Southeast Asian people)--Ethnic identityContent provider:
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Adaptive Collaborative Management in Forest Landscapes : Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society
Carol J. Pierce Colfer;Ravi Prabhu;Anne M. Larson;Carol J. Pierce Colfer;Ra...
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Adaptive Collaborative Management in Forest Landscapes : Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society
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This book examines the value of Adaptive Collaborative Management for facilitating learning and collaboration with local communities and beyond, utilising detailed studies of forest landscapes and communities. Many forest management proposals are based on top-down strategies, such as the Million Tree Initiatives, Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and REDD+, often neglecting local communities. In the context of the climate crisis, it is imperative that local peoples and communities are an integral part of all decisions relating to resource management. Rather than being seen as beneficiaries or people to be safeguarded, they should be seen as full partners, and Adaptive Collaborative Management is an approach which priorities the rights and roles of communities alongside the need to address the environmental crisis. The volume presents detailed case studies and real life examples from across the globe, promoting and prioritizing the voices of women and scholars and practitioners from the Global South who are often under-represented. Providing concrete examples of ways that a bottom-up approach can function to enhance development sustainably, via its practitioners and far beyond the locale in which they initially worked, this volume demonstrates the lasting utility of approaches like Adaptive Collaborative Management that emphasize local control, inclusiveness and local creativity in management. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the fields of conservation, forest management, community development and natural resource management and development studies more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
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Forest management - Landscape protection - Forest landscape management - Sustainable forestry - Forestry and communityContent provider:
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The articulation of culture, agriculture , and the environment of Chinese in Northern Thailand (1)
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Ethnology. Winter, 2005, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p1, 11 p.
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Shu-min, Huang
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Ethnology. Winter, 2005, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p1, 11 p.
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Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific : Between Local and Global
John Connell;Eric Waddell;John Connell;Eric Waddell
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Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific : Between Local and Global
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This volume examines the economic , political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated local resilience amongst communities and led to evolving regional institutions and environment management practices, changing social relationships and producing new forms of stratification. Bringing together case studies from across mainland Southeast Asia and the Island Pacific, an expert team of international contributors reveal how communities at the periphery take charge of their lives, champion the virtues of their own local systems of production and consumption, and engage in the complexities of new structures of development that demand a response to the vacillations of global politics, economy and society. Inherent in this is the recognition that'development 'as we have come to know it is far from over. Each chapter emphasizes the growing recognition that ecological and environmental issues are key to any understanding and analysis of structures of sustainable development . Providing diverse multidisciplinary theoretical and empirical perspectives, Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific makes an important contribution to the revitalization of development studies and as such will be essential reading for scholars in the field, as well as those with an interest in Asia-Pacific studies, economic geography and political economy.
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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology
David H. Price;David H. Price
In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound ...
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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology
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In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records, he maps out the intricate connections between academia and the intelligence community and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the American military complex. The rise of area studies programs, funded both openly and covertly by government agencies, encouraged anthropologists to produce work that had intellectual value within the field while also shaping global counterinsurgency and development programs that furthered America's Cold War objectives. Ultimately, the moral issues raised by these activities prompted the American Anthropological Association to establish its first ethics code. Price concludes by comparing Cold War-era anthropology to the anthropological expertise deployed by the military in the post-9/11 era.
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Science and state--United States--History--20th century - Cold War - Anthropology--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century - Anthropologists--Political activity--United States--History--20th century - Military intelligence--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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The global in the local: contested resource-use systems of the Karen and Hmong in Northern Thailand
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. June 2003, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p347, 14 p.
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Tomforde, Maren
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. June 2003, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p347, 14 p.
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Local knowledge, dynamism and the politics of struggle: a case study of the Hmong in Northern Thailand
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. Feb 2006, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p65, 17 p.
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Siriphon, Aranya
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. Feb 2006, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p65, 17 p.
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Political Ecologies of War and Forests : Counterinsurgencies and the Making of National Natures.
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Annals of the Association of American Geographers. May2011, Vol. 101 Issue 3, p587-608. 22p. 1 Chart.
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Political Ecologies of War and Forests : Counterinsurgencies and the Making of National Natures.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers. May2011, Vol. 101 Issue 3, p587-608. 22p. 1 Chart.
We examine the significance of a specific type of political violence-counterinsurgency-in the making of political forests , providing a link between literatures on the political ecology of forests and the geographies of war. During the Cold War, particularly between the 1950s and the end of the 1970s, natures were remade in relation to nation-states in part through engagements with 'insurgencies' and 'emergencies' staged from forested territories. These insurgencies represented alternative civilizing projects to those of the nascent nation-states; they also took place in historical moments and sites where the reach of centrifically focused nations was still tentative. We argue that war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency helped normalize political forests as components of the modern nation-state during and in the aftermath of violence. The political violence also enabled state-based forestry to expand under the rubric of scientific forestry. Military counterinsurgency operations contributed to the practical and political separation of forests and agriculture , furthered and created newly racialized state forests and citizen-subjects, and facilitated the transfer of technologies to forestry departments. The crisis rhetoric of environmental security around 'jungles,' as dangerous spaces peopled with suspect populations, particularly near international borders, articulated with conservation and other national security discourses that emerged concurrently. Counterinsurgency measures thus strengthened the territorial power and reach of national states by extending its political forests . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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POLITICAL violence - POLITICAL ecology - COUNTERINSURGENCY - GUERRILLA warfare - FORESTS & forestry - COLD War, 1945-1991 - JUNGLES - WAR & society - FOREST ecology - NATION-state - INTERNATIONAL relations, 1945-1989Content provider:
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The Mists of Rāmañña : The Legend That Was Lower Burma
Michael A. Aung-Thwin;Michael A. Aung-Thwin
Scholars have long accepted the belief that a Theravada Buddhist Mon kingdom, Rāmaññad...
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The Mists of Rāmañña : The Legend That Was Lower Burma
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Scholars have long accepted the belief that a Theravada Buddhist Mon kingdom, Rāmaññadesa, flourished in coastal Lower Burma until it was conquered in 1057 by King Aniruddha of Pagan—which then became, in essence, the new custodian and repository of Mon culture in the Upper Burmese interior. This scenario, which Aung-Thwin calls the'Mon Paradigm,'has circumscribed much of the scholarship on early Burma and significantly shaped the history of Southeast Asia for more than a century. Now, in a masterful reassessment of Burmese history, Michael Aung-Thwin reexamines the original contemporary accounts and sources without finding any evidence of an early Theravada Mon polity or a conquest by Aniruddha. The paradigm, he finds, cannot be sustained. How, when, and why did the Mon Paradigm emerge? Aung-Thwin meticulously traces the paradigm's creation to the merging of two temporally, causally, and contextually unrelated Mon and Burmese narratives, which were later synthesized in English by colonial officials and scholars. Thus there was no single originating source, only a late and mistaken conflation of sources. The conceptual, methodological, and empirical ramifications of these findings are significant. The prevalent view that state-formation began in the maritime regions of Southeast Asia with trade and commerce rather than in the interior with agriculture must now be reassessed. In addition, a more rigorous look at the actual scope and impact of a romanticized Mon culture in the region is required. Other issues important to the field of early Burma and Southeast Asian studies, including the process of'Indianization,'the characterization of'classical'states, and the advent and spread of Theravada Buddhism, are also directly affected by Aung-Thwin's work. Finally, it provides a geo-political, cultural, and economic alternative to what has become an ethnic interpretation of Burma's history.An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher.
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Out of the ashes: Swidden cultivation in highland Laos.
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Anthropology Today. Aug2006, Vol. 22 Issue 4, p9-13. 5p. 4 Color Photographs, 1 Diagram.
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SPRENGER, GUIDO
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