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Shifting Rights, Resources and Representations: Agrarian Transformation of Highland Swidden Communities in Northern Laos.

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正題名/作者:	Shifting Rights, Resources and Representations: Agrarian Transformation of Highland Swidden Communities in Northern Laos./
作者:	McAllister, Karen Elisabeth.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	504 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-10B.
標題:	Agriculture. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28250901
ISBN:	9798597043715

Shifting Rights, Resources and Representations: Agrarian Transformation of Highland Swidden Communities in Northern Laos.
McAllister, Karen Elisabeth.

Shifting Rights, Resources and Representations: Agrarian Transformation of Highland Swidden Communities in Northern Laos. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 504 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University (Canada), 2016.

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Swidden communities in Laos are undergoing rapid transformation as highland resources are used to fuel national development. Development in Laos is largely conceived as a modernising project involving rationalised planning, scientific management, and the imposition of new 'impersonal' legal frameworks. Mountainous forest-farm landscapes are being ecologically zoned into abstract categories, property rights are being clarified and privatised, remote villages are being resettled to roadsides, and new laws are being established to restructure the relationship between society and nature. These policies are intended to make Lao territory 'legible' for state management and to reshape the behaviours and desires of Lao citizens in support of market-oriented intensive agriculture. Such programs for development are reinterpreted, resisted and adapted by villagers and state officials alike according to specific socio-ecological conditions, cultural understandings and/or particular interests. Modernising projects articulate with customary and informal practices, social power dynamics and struggles over resources and provide new justifications to support competing claims to land at different socio-spatial scales. This thesis examines the process of agrarian transformation in highland Laos, the evolving struggles over land and resource rights, and the impacts on different ethnic groups. I explore how development projects and market opportunities articulate with the pre-existing agricultural practices, customary property institutions and knowledge systems of different ethnic groups by examining state land formalisation and titling programs, the introduction of commercial rubber trees from China in concession and contract farming arrangements, and a participatory agricultural research project intended to help swidden farmers intensify their agricultural systems. These projects are transformed and resisted by villagers and state officials within place-based informal practices, socio-ecologies and epistemologies, and contribute to processes of accumulation and dispossession that are influenced by pre-existing relations of socio-economic inequality that often overlap with ethnic identity.

ISBN: 9798597043715Subjects--Topical Terms:

518588
Agriculture.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Northern Laos

Shifting Rights, Resources and Representations: Agrarian Transformation of Highland Swidden Communities in Northern Laos.
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520 $a Au Laos, l'utilisation des ressources naturelles provenant des regions montagneuses pour alimenter le developpement national engendre de rapides transformations chez les communautes pratiquant l'agriculture sur brulis. Le developpement au Laos est principalement concu comme un projet de modernisation impliquant une planification rationalisee, une gestion scientifique et l'imposition de nouveaux cadres juridiques «impersonnels». Le zonage des paysages forestiers et agricoles montagneux divise le territoire en categories abstraites, les droits de proprp iete se clarifient et se privatisent, les villages recules se font reinstaller le long des routes et de nouvelles lois sont mises en place pour restructurer la relation entre la societe et la nature. Ces politiques visent a rendre le territoire laotien plus «lisible» pour la gestion etatique et a faconner les comportements et desirs des citoyens laotiens de facon a ce qu'ils soutiennent une agriculture intensive a visee commerciale. Les villageois, tout comme les fonctionnaires de l'Etat, reinterpretent, adaptent ou resistent a de tels programmes de developpement et ce, en fonction de differentes conditions socio-environnementales, de conceptions culturelles et/ou d'interets particuliers. Les projets de modernisation s'articulent autour de pratiques coutumieres et informelles, de rapports de pouvoir et de luttes par rapport aux ressources naturelles. Ils fournissent de nouvelles justifications pour soutenir des revendications territoriales qui divergent selon les groupes et contextes socio-spatiaux. Cette these examine le processus de transformation agraire dans les regions montagneuses du Laos, les transformations des luttes liees aux droits sur le territoire et les ressources naturelles ainsi que leurs effets sur differents groupes ethniques. J'analyse comment les projets de developpement et les possibilites de debouches commerciaux s'arriment aux pratiques agricoles preexistantes, aux institutions foncieres coutumieres et aux systemes de savoirs de differents groupes ethniques. Pour ce faire, j'examine les programmes gouvernementaux de formalisation et d'attribution de titres de propriete, l'introduction de la culture d'heveas par la Chine pour la production commerciale du caoutchouc par le biais de systemes de concessions et d'agriculture sous contrat et, finalement, un projet de recherche participative sur l'agriculture destine a aider les cultivateurs pratiquant l'agriculture sur brulis a intensifier leurs systemes agricoles. Ces projets sont soit transformes par les villageois et les fonctionnaires ou creent de la resistance. Ils sont marques par des pratiques informelles localement ancrees, des environnements et des epistemologies et ils contribuent aux processus d'accumulation et de depossession qui sont influences par des inegalites socioeconomiques preexistantes.
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