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Atlas of Laos : The Spatial Structures of Economic ans Social Development of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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ISBN: 8776945081 9788776945084 8787062879 9788787062879 9747551411 9789747551419 Year: 2000 Publisher: Copenhagen NIAS


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Heritage and the making of political legitimacy in Laos : the past and present of the Lao nation
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ISBN: 9048550718 9463727027 9789048550715 9789463727020 Year: 2021 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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The Lao People's Democratic Republic is nearly fifty years old, and one of the few surviving one-party socialist states. Nearly five decades on from its revolutionary birth, the Lao population continues to build futures in and around a political landscape that maintains socialist rhetoric on one hand and capitalist economics on the other. Contemporary Lao politics is marked by the use of cultural heritage as a source of political legitimacy. Researched through long term detailed ethnography in the former royal capital of Luang Prabang, itself a UNESCO-recognised World Heritage Site since 1995, this book takes a fresh look at issues of legitimacy, heritage and national identity for different members of the Lao population. It argues that the political system has become sufficiently embedded to avoid imminent risk of collapse but suggests that it is facing new challenges primarily in the form of rising Chinese influence in Laos.


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Chroniques des cendres : anthropologie des sociétés khmou et des dynamiques interethniques du Nord-Laos
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ISBN: 2709916037 2709917610 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris : IRD. Institut de recherche pour le développement,

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Les « mangeurs de forêts » ont mauvaise réputation. Parce qu’ils défrichent chaque année une parcelle de végétation avant d’y mettre le feu, les agriculteurs montagnards d’Asie du Sud-Est seraient les premiers responsables de la déforestation. Culturellement distincts de leurs voisins des plaines, ils font aussi figure de populations arriérées, incapables d’abandonner des pratiques qui les maintiendraient dans la pauvreté. D’où la nécessité de les déplacer et de les regrouper dans les vallées, pour les « sédentariser » et les « développer ». Tel est en tout cas le discours des Etats, souvent relayé et cautionné par les institutions internationales et les médias. Pourtant, l’agriculture sur brûlis n’est pas toujours et partout une aberration écologique ou économique. Chez les montagnards khmou du Nord-Laos, il s’agit d’un véritable mode de vie et non d’une technique de survie. L’agriculture sur brûlis exprime leur rapport à la nature, inspire leurs catégories mentales et leur système symbolique. Elle participe de la reproduction des liens sociaux dans les maisons et les villages. Elle structure enfin les relations qu’ils entretiennent avec leurs voisins et avec l’État. Ces « chroniques des cendres » restituent leur vision du monde et retracent l’histoire des relations interethniques au Nord-Laos. Elles témoignent aussi des liens complexes tissés par les minorités avec l’État-nation dans ce pays et de l’ampleur des recompositions sociales et territoriales en cours dans le contexte post-communiste contemporain.

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Khmu' (Southeast Asian people) --- Khmu (Peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Laos --- Ethnic relations. --- Relations interethniques --- Shifting cultivation --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Southeast Asia --- Social conditions. --- Bush fallow cultivation --- Cultivation, Shifting --- Forest fallow cultivation --- Shifting agriculture --- Slash and burn cultivation --- Swidden farming --- Kamhmu (Southeast Asian people) --- Kammu (Southeast Asian people) --- Kamu (Southeast Asian people) --- Kha Mou (Southeast Asian people) --- Khamu (Southeast Asian people) --- Khamuk (Southeast Asian people) --- Kmhmu' (Southeast Asian people) --- Mou (Southeast Asian people) --- Pouteng (Southeast Asian people) --- Lao People's Democratic Republic --- Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxôn Lao --- People's Democratic Republic of Laos --- République démocratique populaire Lao --- Lao PDR --- Lao-Issara --- Laosskai︠a︡ Narodno-Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Sāthālanalat Pasāthipatai Pasāson Lāo --- Phrarātsaʻānāchak Lāo --- LNDR --- Lanxang --- Lan Xang --- Lan Sang --- Lan Chang --- ʻĀnāchak Lāo --- RDP lao --- Sō̜. Pō̜. Pō̜. Lāo --- Sō̜pō̜pō̜ Lāo --- Lao P.D.R. --- Saathiaranarath Prachhathipatay Prachhachhon Lao --- Cộng hòa dân chủ nhân dân Lào --- Royaume du Laos --- Social life and customs. --- Khơ mú (Southeast Asian people) --- Mứn Xen (Southeast Asian people) --- Pu Thênh (Southeast Asian people) --- Tày Hạy (Southeast Asian people) --- Tềnh (Southeast Asian people) --- Xá Cẩu (Southeast Asian people) --- Agriculture --- Burning of land --- Clearing of land --- Cropping systems --- Fallowing --- Tillage --- Ethnology --- French Indochina --- RDP Lao --- agriculture --- déforestation --- mobilité --- croyance --- minorité ethnique --- lignage --- société traditionnelle --- rituel --- organisation sociale --- identité culturelle --- mythe


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Cross-Border traders in Northern Laos : mastering smallness
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ISBN: 9048554403 946372236X Year: 2022 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further beyond. Yet in the common narrative, in which Laos appears as a weak victim helplessly exposed to its larger neighbours, attention is seldom paid to local voices. This book fills this gap. Building on long-term multi-sited fieldwork, it accompanies northern Lao cross-border traders closely in their transnational worlds of mobilities, social relations, economic experimentation and aspiration. Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness demonstrates that these traders' indispensable but often invisible role in the everyday workings of the China-Laos-Thailand borderland economy relies on their rhetoric and practices of 'smallness'-of framing their transnational trade activities in a self-deprecating manner and stressing their economic inferiority. Decoding their discursive surface of insignificance, this ethnography of 'smallness' foregrounds remarkable transnational social and economic skills that are mostly invisible in Sino-Southeast Asian borderland scholarship.

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Borderlands --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business. --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Thailand --- Laos --- China --- Commerce --- Yunnan, Laos, Thailand, cross-border trade, smallness. --- Lao People's Democratic Republic --- Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxôn Lao --- People's Democratic Republic of Laos --- République démocratique populaire Lao --- Lao PDR --- Lao-Issara --- Laosskai︠a︡ Narodno-Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Sāthālanalat Pasāthipatai Pasāson Lāo --- Phrarātsaʻānāchak Lāo --- LNDR --- ʻĀnāchak Lāo --- RDP Lao --- Sō̜. Pō̜. Pō̜. Lāo --- Sō̜pō̜pō̜ Lāo --- Lao P.D.R. --- Saathiaranarath Prachhathipatay Prachhachhon Lao --- Cộng hòa dân chủ nhân dân Lào --- Royaume du Laos --- French Indochina --- Tʻai-kuo --- Hsien-lo --- Muang-Thai --- Thaimaa --- Prates Thai --- Prades Thai --- Thaïlande --- Kingdom of Thailand --- Prathēt Thai --- Tailand --- Thailandia --- Thajsko --- Royal Thai Government --- Ratcha Anachak Thai --- Koninkryk van Thailand --- تايلاند --- Tāylānd --- Tailandia --- Reino de Tailandia --- Tayilande --- Royômo de Tayilande --- Tayland Krallığı --- Pratet Tai --- Thài-kok --- Тайланд --- Каралеўства Тайланд --- Karaleŭstva Taĭland --- Tailandya --- Tajland --- Kraljevina Tajland --- Кралство Тайланд --- Kralstvo Taĭland --- Siam --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Boundaries.


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Upland Geopolitics : Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush
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ISBN: 0295750502 0295750480 Year: 2022 Publisher: University of Washington Press

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"In the twenty-first century, transnational land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Widely seen as a new global land grab, 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-one of China's first sustained forays into foreign land deals during the boom years of the early 2000s-to study the unbalanced geography of the new global land rush. Contemporary Laos serves as a stage on which the growing frustration with traditional Western assistance is leading to new forms of South-South development cooperation. 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"--

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Rural development --- Economic development --- Investments, Foreign --- Rubber industry and trade --- Rubber plantations --- Land tenure --- Uplands --- Land use, Rural --- Foreign ownership. --- Political aspects --- Economic aspects --- Government policy --- China --- Laos --- Foreign economic relations --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Regional planning --- Rural land use --- Land use --- Agriculture --- Highlands --- Upland --- Landforms --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Agroforests, Rubber --- Hevea plantations --- Rubber agroforests --- Rubber farms --- Plantations --- Tree farms --- India rubber industry --- Non-timber forest products industry --- Polymers industry --- Capital exports --- Capital imports --- FDI (Foreign direct investment) --- Foreign direct investment --- Foreign investment --- Foreign investments --- International investment --- Offshore investments --- Outward investments --- Capital movements --- Investments --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Lao People's Democratic Republic --- Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxôn Lao --- People's Democratic Republic of Laos --- République démocratique populaire Lao --- Lao PDR --- Lao-Issara --- Laosskai︠a︡ Narodno-Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Sāthālanalat Pasāthipatai Pasāson Lāo --- Phrarātsaʻānāchak Lāo --- LNDR --- Lanxang --- Lan Xang --- Lan Sang --- Lan Chang --- ʻĀnāchak Lāo --- RDP lao --- Sō̜. Pō̜. Pō̜. Lāo --- Sō̜pō̜pō̜ Lāo --- Lao P.D.R. --- Saathiaranarath Prachhathipatay Prachhachhon Lao --- Cộng hòa dân chủ nhân dân Lào --- Royaume du Laos --- French Indochina --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- RDP Lao --- Asian history

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