Jean‐françois Rousseau
Biographic Data
| ID | 124679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean‐françois Rousseau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean‐françois |
| FAMILY NAME | Rousseau |
| SIGNATURE | ROUSSEAU J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6780-6971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Can green concrete help address the sand and aggregate crisis? A scoping literature review
Construction material industries, including the concrete sector, drive a huge demand for aggregates, including sand, one of the most widely consumed resources globally. Emerging advocacy campaigns on sand sustainability frame less aggregate intensive “ecological” or “green” concrete materials as solutions to mitigate the socio-environmental impacts emerging from sand consumption. This scoping literature review considers how the benefits from gree…
(In)visible fluidities across sandscapes: Sand dredging and local socio-environmental impacts along the Red and Mekong Rivers
River sand, in its fluid form, is constantly shifting, being displaced through human activities and hydrological processes. The specific connections between the drivers and consequences of sand displacement are difficult to isolate. An emerging concept to help unpack such connections is the sandscape, which encompasses the social-ecological interactions and spatial reconfigurations that the movement and transformation of this granular resource yi…
Locating Sand
Sand extraction is quickly gaining attention both in the academic and policy communities. However, we lack grounded understandings of the multiple realities and impacts of sand extractions across the Global South. This special issue aims to provide a jumping-off point towards both empirically and conceptually sophisticated work on sand. This introduction wants to present the main themes emerging in the paper, key concepts used and developed and s…
The Political Economy of Hydropower in Southwest China and Beyond
The perfect storm: Extreme weather events and speculation along cardamom commodity chains in Southwest China
This article probes how extreme weather events in Southwest China in 2016 impacted actors in the black cardamom commodity chain. Harvest failures led to sudden supply disruptions, triggering a price spike that worsened an ongoing price bubble which had been driven by long-lasting speculative maneuvers from large market actors but was also beneficial to ethnic minority farmers. Extreme weather events created both risk and profit opportunities for …
Spices as the saviour? The complex vulnerabilities of three commodity crop booms and ethnic minority livelihoods in Yunnan's agrarian frontier
Commodity crops are redefining land use and rural smallholder livelihoods across Asia. These crops often have boom‐bust cycles with important implications for the drivers of farmer entry into and exit from particular cash crop opportunities. This paper offers a comparative analysis of the boom‐bust processes of three popular spice crops cultivated in Yunnan Province, southwest China. Drawing from agrarian frontiers and rural livelihoods literatur…
Responsibility to choose: Governmentality in China’s participatory dam resettlement processes
When land, water and green‐grabbing cumulate: Hydropower expansion, livelihood resource reallocation and legitimisation in southwest China
Hundreds of hydropower dam projects, of all sizes, have been initiated in Yunnan Province, China, since the late 1990s. This paper frames hydropower‐driven resource reallocations as resource grabs that combine aspects of land, water and green‐grabbing, investigating how two dams built along the Red River have impacted local communities and how corporate and governmental stakeholders have viewed local livelihood changes and considered compensation…
The disappearance of water buffalo from agrarian landscapes in Western China
For centuries, water buffalo served important livelihood functions for ethnic minority farmers in Southwest China. Yet, over the past decade, buffalo ownership decreased dramatically in our research sites in Yunnan province. This transition occurred after state policies and projects excluded villagers from significant portions of their land. Increased state control over landscapes allowed the state to respatialize land uses in ways conducive to p…
Not at All Costs: Frontier Modernization Schemes and Ethnic Minority Livelihood Debates in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
The Chinese and Vietnamese states are encouraging or endorsing numerous schemes to “modernize” what they deem to be the physical and cultural frontiers of their political territories. Proceeding at a rapid pace across the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, frontier projects frequently enclose resources at the core of ethnic minority livelihoods for the sake of capitalist expansion, while promoting specific visions of what appropriate, “civilized” front…
Does carbon finance make a sustainable difference? Hydropower expansion and livelihood trade‐offs in the Red River valley, Yunnan Province, China
The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a carbon credit trading scheme intended to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and promote ‘sustainable development’. Hundreds of CDM‐sponsored hydroelectric dams have been constructed in southwest China's Yunnan Province, where carbon finance contributes substantial financial incentives to hydropower expansion. This article investigates whether riparian Handai farmers settled ne…
An Imperial Railway Failure: The Indochina—Yunnan Railway, 1898–1941
Imperial railway projects emphasised military, geopolitical and economic objectives but often failed to achieve their planned outcomes. This article addresses this gap in the case of the French-built Indochina—Yunnan railway project. It introduces the doubts the railway project raised and the challenges associated with building it. The article demonstrates that the railway's contribution to securing France's power in Indochina and its economic im…
Gambling with the Land: The Contemporary Evolution of Southeast Asian Agriculture
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Gambling with the Land: The Contemporary Evolution of Southeast Asian Agriculture
Gambling with the Land surveys and analyzes systematically the production and trade of all major agricultural crops throughout Southeast Asian between 1960 and the late 2000s. After reviewing the specific economic, social and political role of agriculture in the eight major agricultural countries – Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines – since the end of the colonial period, the authors show how Southea…
Not at All Costs: Frontier Modernization Schemes and Ethnic Minority Livelihood Debates in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
The Chinese and Vietnamese states are encouraging or endorsing numerous schemes to “modernize” what they deem to be the physical and cultural frontiers of their political territories. Proceeding at a rapid pace across the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, frontier projects frequently enclose resources at the core of ethnic minority livelihoods for the sake of capitalist expansion, while promoting specific visions of what appropriate, “civilized” front…
When land, water and green‐grabbing cumulate: Hydropower expansion, livelihood resource reallocation and legitimisation in southwest China
Hundreds of hydropower dam projects, of all sizes, have been initiated in Yunnan Province, China, since the late 1990s. This paper frames hydropower‐driven resource reallocations as resource grabs that combine aspects of land, water and green‐grabbing, investigating how two dams built along the Red River have impacted local communities and how corporate and governmental stakeholders have viewed local livelihood changes and considered compensation…
An Imperial Railway Failure: The Indochina—Yunnan Railway, 1898–1941
Imperial railway projects emphasised military, geopolitical and economic objectives but often failed to achieve their planned outcomes. This article addresses this gap in the case of the French-built Indochina—Yunnan railway project. It introduces the doubts the railway project raised and the challenges associated with building it. The article demonstrates that the railway's contribution to securing France's power in Indochina and its economic im…
(In)visible fluidities across sandscapes: Sand dredging and local socio-environmental impacts along the Red and Mekong Rivers
River sand, in its fluid form, is constantly shifting, being displaced through human activities and hydrological processes. The specific connections between the drivers and consequences of sand displacement are difficult to isolate. An emerging concept to help unpack such connections is the sandscape, which encompasses the social-ecological interactions and spatial reconfigurations that the movement and transformation of this granular resource yi…
Responsibility to choose: Governmentality in China’s participatory dam resettlement processes
The disappearance of water buffalo from agrarian landscapes in Western China
For centuries, water buffalo served important livelihood functions for ethnic minority farmers in Southwest China. Yet, over the past decade, buffalo ownership decreased dramatically in our research sites in Yunnan province. This transition occurred after state policies and projects excluded villagers from significant portions of their land. Increased state control over landscapes allowed the state to respatialize land uses in ways conducive to p…
Locating Sand
Sand extraction is quickly gaining attention both in the academic and policy communities. However, we lack grounded understandings of the multiple realities and impacts of sand extractions across the Global South. This special issue aims to provide a jumping-off point towards both empirically and conceptually sophisticated work on sand. This introduction wants to present the main themes emerging in the paper, key concepts used and developed and s…
Spices as the saviour? The complex vulnerabilities of three commodity crop booms and ethnic minority livelihoods in Yunnan's agrarian frontier
Commodity crops are redefining land use and rural smallholder livelihoods across Asia. These crops often have boom‐bust cycles with important implications for the drivers of farmer entry into and exit from particular cash crop opportunities. This paper offers a comparative analysis of the boom‐bust processes of three popular spice crops cultivated in Yunnan Province, southwest China. Drawing from agrarian frontiers and rural livelihoods literatur…
The perfect storm: Extreme weather events and speculation along cardamom commodity chains in Southwest China
This article probes how extreme weather events in Southwest China in 2016 impacted actors in the black cardamom commodity chain. Harvest failures led to sudden supply disruptions, triggering a price spike that worsened an ongoing price bubble which had been driven by long-lasting speculative maneuvers from large market actors but was also beneficial to ethnic minority farmers. Extreme weather events created both risk and profit opportunities for …
Gambling with the Land: The Contemporary Evolution of Southeast Asian Agriculture
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Gambling with the Land: The Contemporary Evolution of Southeast Asian Agriculture
Gambling with the Land surveys and analyzes systematically the production and trade of all major agricultural crops throughout Southeast Asian between 1960 and the late 2000s. After reviewing the specific economic, social and political role of agriculture in the eight major agricultural countries – Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines – since the end of the colonial period, the authors show how Southea…
An Imperial Railway Failure: The Indochina—Yunnan Railway, 1898–1941
Imperial railway projects emphasised military, geopolitical and economic objectives but often failed to achieve their planned outcomes. This article addresses this gap in the case of the French-built Indochina—Yunnan railway project. It introduces the doubts the railway project raised and the challenges associated with building it. The article demonstrates that the railway's contribution to securing France's power in Indochina and its economic im…
Gambling with the Land: The Contemporary Evolution of Southeast Asian Agriculture
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Does carbon finance make a sustainable difference? Hydropower expansion and livelihood trade‐offs in the Red River valley, Yunnan Province, China
The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a carbon credit trading scheme intended to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and promote ‘sustainable development’. Hundreds of CDM‐sponsored hydroelectric dams have been constructed in southwest China's Yunnan Province, where carbon finance contributes substantial financial incentives to hydropower expansion. This article investigates whether riparian Handai farmers settled ne…
Not at All Costs: Frontier Modernization Schemes and Ethnic Minority Livelihood Debates in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
The Chinese and Vietnamese states are encouraging or endorsing numerous schemes to “modernize” what they deem to be the physical and cultural frontiers of their political territories. Proceeding at a rapid pace across the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, frontier projects frequently enclose resources at the core of ethnic minority livelihoods for the sake of capitalist expansion, while promoting specific visions of what appropriate, “civilized” front…
When land, water and green‐grabbing cumulate: Hydropower expansion, livelihood resource reallocation and legitimisation in southwest China
Hundreds of hydropower dam projects, of all sizes, have been initiated in Yunnan Province, China, since the late 1990s. This paper frames hydropower‐driven resource reallocations as resource grabs that combine aspects of land, water and green‐grabbing, investigating how two dams built along the Red River have impacted local communities and how corporate and governmental stakeholders have viewed local livelihood changes and considered compensation…
The disappearance of water buffalo from agrarian landscapes in Western China
For centuries, water buffalo served important livelihood functions for ethnic minority farmers in Southwest China. Yet, over the past decade, buffalo ownership decreased dramatically in our research sites in Yunnan province. This transition occurred after state policies and projects excluded villagers from significant portions of their land. Increased state control over landscapes allowed the state to respatialize land uses in ways conducive to p…
The perfect storm: Extreme weather events and speculation along cardamom commodity chains in Southwest China
This article probes how extreme weather events in Southwest China in 2016 impacted actors in the black cardamom commodity chain. Harvest failures led to sudden supply disruptions, triggering a price spike that worsened an ongoing price bubble which had been driven by long-lasting speculative maneuvers from large market actors but was also beneficial to ethnic minority farmers. Extreme weather events created both risk and profit opportunities for …
Spices as the saviour? The complex vulnerabilities of three commodity crop booms and ethnic minority livelihoods in Yunnan's agrarian frontier
Commodity crops are redefining land use and rural smallholder livelihoods across Asia. These crops often have boom‐bust cycles with important implications for the drivers of farmer entry into and exit from particular cash crop opportunities. This paper offers a comparative analysis of the boom‐bust processes of three popular spice crops cultivated in Yunnan Province, southwest China. Drawing from agrarian frontiers and rural livelihoods literatur…
Responsibility to choose: Governmentality in China’s participatory dam resettlement processes
The Political Economy of Hydropower in Southwest China and Beyond
(In)visible fluidities across sandscapes: Sand dredging and local socio-environmental impacts along the Red and Mekong Rivers
River sand, in its fluid form, is constantly shifting, being displaced through human activities and hydrological processes. The specific connections between the drivers and consequences of sand displacement are difficult to isolate. An emerging concept to help unpack such connections is the sandscape, which encompasses the social-ecological interactions and spatial reconfigurations that the movement and transformation of this granular resource yi…
Locating Sand
Sand extraction is quickly gaining attention both in the academic and policy communities. However, we lack grounded understandings of the multiple realities and impacts of sand extractions across the Global South. This special issue aims to provide a jumping-off point towards both empirically and conceptually sophisticated work on sand. This introduction wants to present the main themes emerging in the paper, key concepts used and developed and s…
Can green concrete help address the sand and aggregate crisis? A scoping literature review
Construction material industries, including the concrete sector, drive a huge demand for aggregates, including sand, one of the most widely consumed resources globally. Emerging advocacy campaigns on sand sustainability frame less aggregate intensive “ecological” or “green” concrete materials as solutions to mitigate the socio-environmental impacts emerging from sand consumption. This scoping literature review considers how the benefits from gree…
Geography (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Livelihood (7 works) · China (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (5 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (5 works)