Biography and Borderlands

Chao Sone Bouttarobol, a Champassak Royal, and Thailand, Laos and Cambodia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13014657
AutoresIan G Baird (0000-0001-7747-2485, University of Wisconsin–Madison, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen5
Número2
Páginas269-295
Fecha de publicación2017-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTRaNS Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2051-364X • E-ISSN: 2051-3658
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/trn.2017.9
OpenAlexW2739716671
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas29

Although biographical and life history approaches are potentially important tools for historical geographers, biographical methodologies have rarely been used to specifically investigate borderland dynamics. In this article, I argue that biography can be useful for understanding the ways in which borders have been recognised and negotiated historically. As a case study, I examine the life of Chao Sone Bouttarobol, a member of the Champassak Royal House, who was born in 1895 and died in 1979. As his life story illustrates, the emergence of new national borders had a significant impact on Sone, although family ties and relationships allowed him to cross the national administrative borders that now exist between Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, often with relative ease. Studying one individual makes it possible to explore the ways in which he interacted and negotiated with borders that cut across the Champassak Royal House's traditional space of influence

Art history · Biography · Genealogy · Geography · Sociology · Cambodian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies