TY - BOOK ID - 85757286 TI - From padi states to commercial states : reflections on identity and the social construction of space in the borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar AU - Bourdier, Frédéric AU - Boutry, Maxime AU - Ferrari, Olivier AU - Ivanoff, Jacques PY - 2015 SN - 904852332X 9089646590 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Minorities KW - Borderlands KW - Cultural assimilation KW - Anthropology KW - Socialization KW - Acculturation KW - Cultural fusion KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Ethnic minorities KW - Foreign population KW - Minority groups KW - Persons KW - Discrimination KW - Ethnic relations KW - Majorities KW - Plebiscite KW - Race relations KW - Segregation KW - Border-lands KW - Border regions KW - Frontiers KW - Boundaries KW - Aboriginal peoples KW - Aborigines KW - Adivasis KW - Indigenous populations KW - Native peoples KW - Native races KW - Ethnology KW - Government relations. KW - Southeast Asia KW - Politics and government KW - Since 1945 KW - Zomian, identity construction, borderlands, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85757286 AB - "Zomia" is a term coined in 2002 to describe the broad swath of mountainous land in Southeast Asia that has always been beyond the reach of lowland governments despite their technical claims to control. This book expands the anthropological reach of that term, applying it to any deterritorialised people, from cast-out migrants to modern resisters-in the process finding new ways to understand the realities of peoples and ethnicities that refuse to become part of the modern state. ER -