Janet C Sturgeon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1261996 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Janet C Sturgeon |
| PRENOMES | Janet C |
| SOBRENOME | Sturgeon |
| ASSINATURA | STURGEON J C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 220 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Landscape plasticity and its erasure
For centuries, people who call themselves Akha had formed village landscapes of rotating shifting cultivation fields amid regenerating trees together with enduring wooded sites, all under the purview of their ancestors. In Mengsong, an Akha settlement on the ridge separating China and Burma, farmers had managed complex, biodiverse and flexible landscapes for 250 years. In 1996-1997, my extended research there identified cultivation patterns that …
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…
Taming Tibet
Emily T. Yeh. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvii and 324 pp., maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8014-7832-1), $75.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8014-5155-3).So...
Cross‐border rubber cultivation between C hina and L aos
This paper is a multi‐sited ethnography of cross‐border rubber cultivation between C hina and L aos. Smallholder minority rubber farmers from X ishuangbanna ( C hina) have forged successful informal share‐cropping arrangements to grow rubber trees on the land of relatives and friends in neighbouring L aos. By becoming rich and entrepreneurial rural citizens, A kha and T ai farmers have also, in their own eyes, raised their own ‘quality’ ( suzhi )…
Introduction – Regionalization at the margins
Enclosing Ethnic Minorities and Forests in the Golden Economic Quadrangle
Ethnic minority farmers in the infamous Golden Triangle were first incorporated into the nation states of China, Laos and Thailand, and later into the economic region called the Golden Economic Quadrangle. This article traces policies in each country for minorities, development and the environment, followed by an analysis of agrarian transitions under economic regionalization. Using the framework of powers of exclusion and racialization, our find…
The Cultural Politics of Ethnic Identity in Xishuangbanna, China
In 2003, the poverty alleviation bureau in Xishuangbanna, China, introduced tea and rubber as cash crops to raise the incomes of ethnic-minority farmers who were thought to be backward and unfamiliar with markets. Using Marx's commodity fetish and Polly Hill's critique of “cash crops”, this paper analyses the cultural politics of ethnicity for Akha and Dai farmers in relation to tea and rubber. When the prefecture government introduces “cash crop…
Governing minorities and development in Xishuangbanna, China
Functional Links Between Biodiversity, Livelihoods, and Culture in a Hani Swidden Landscape in Southwest China
Xu, J., L. Lebel, and J. Sturgeon. 2009. Functional links between biodiversity, livelihoods, and culture in a Hani swidden landscape in southwest China. Ecology and Society 14(2): 20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02916-140220
Property as Abstraction
Haila questions the dominant 'story' that 'imperfections' in Chinese urban land markets can only be resolved through state sanctioned private property rights. She interrogates the meaning of concepts such as 'market' or 'property', wary of the 'ontological fallacy' in which concepts are confused for real objects. Drawing from Mitchell (1991), we seek to take this farther, by tracing how a distinction between property as representation and as real…
Quality Control
First authorised in 1987, local village elections in China have been much studied by China scholars to assess the emergence of democracy in the People's Republic. Elected village committees were to manage 'local affairs', including village lands, as a step towards local self-governance. In place of democracy, this article highlights access and control over natural resources in relation to a local village election first held in Mengsong village, Y…
Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
Pathways of “Indigenous Knowledge” in Yunnan, China
Although the word indigenous is prohibited in China, indigenous knowledge was adopted by a Chinese NGO in Kunming in 1995 to focus on minority farmers' land uses that protect biodiversity. The author's research on Akha farmers in southern Yunnan traced Akha land use from 1950 to 2006, assessing the effects of changing political economies, especially the 1980s switch to a neoliberal path, on Akha land management. Akha practices that maintained bio…
Ideological Landscapes
In Xishuangbanna in the 1950s, an ideology of Han as the appropriate ethnicity for advanced industrial work underlay the establishment of state rubber farms as spatially separate from surrounding backward minority farmers. In the 1980s, this clear divide was complicated by state extension of rubber to minority farmers and some state farms recruiting minorities as workers. From the 1990s onward, state concerns with development and the environment …
Border Practices, Boundaries, and the Control of Resource Access
This article traces border practices along boundaries that China and Thailand share with Burma. It portrays a spectrum of small border polities, from principalities on the fringes of Southeast Asian kingdoms, through Nationalist troops in Burma following their defeat in China, to 'drug lords' and 'rebel armies'. The focus here is on Akha village heads who have worked their connections in multiple directions, including into Burma, to position them…
Claiming and naming resources on the border of the state
This paper explores the intersection of state policies and local interests in allocating and managing resources in mountainous border areas of China and Thailand. These two states differ markedly in policies and approaches both to forests and to ethnic minorities on the periphery. The first section of the paper traces the history of policies in both countries for forested border areas and for forest‐dependent ethnic minorities. The next section e…
Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
Governing minorities and development in Xishuangbanna, China
Border Practices, Boundaries, and the Control of Resource Access
This article traces border practices along boundaries that China and Thailand share with Burma. It portrays a spectrum of small border polities, from principalities on the fringes of Southeast Asian kingdoms, through Nationalist troops in Burma following their defeat in China, to 'drug lords' and 'rebel armies'. The focus here is on Akha village heads who have worked their connections in multiple directions, including into Burma, to position them…
Functional Links Between Biodiversity, Livelihoods, and Culture in a Hani Swidden Landscape in Southwest China
Xu, J., L. Lebel, and J. Sturgeon. 2009. Functional links between biodiversity, livelihoods, and culture in a Hani swidden landscape in southwest China. Ecology and Society 14(2): 20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02916-140220
Enclosing Ethnic Minorities and Forests in the Golden Economic Quadrangle
Ethnic minority farmers in the infamous Golden Triangle were first incorporated into the nation states of China, Laos and Thailand, and later into the economic region called the Golden Economic Quadrangle. This article traces policies in each country for minorities, development and the environment, followed by an analysis of agrarian transitions under economic regionalization. Using the framework of powers of exclusion and racialization, our find…
Ideological Landscapes
In Xishuangbanna in the 1950s, an ideology of Han as the appropriate ethnicity for advanced industrial work underlay the establishment of state rubber farms as spatially separate from surrounding backward minority farmers. In the 1980s, this clear divide was complicated by state extension of rubber to minority farmers and some state farms recruiting minorities as workers. From the 1990s onward, state concerns with development and the environment …
Pathways of “Indigenous Knowledge” in Yunnan, China
Although the word indigenous is prohibited in China, indigenous knowledge was adopted by a Chinese NGO in Kunming in 1995 to focus on minority farmers' land uses that protect biodiversity. The author's research on Akha farmers in southern Yunnan traced Akha land use from 1950 to 2006, assessing the effects of changing political economies, especially the 1980s switch to a neoliberal path, on Akha land management. Akha practices that maintained bio…
Quality Control
First authorised in 1987, local village elections in China have been much studied by China scholars to assess the emergence of democracy in the People's Republic. Elected village committees were to manage 'local affairs', including village lands, as a step towards local self-governance. In place of democracy, this article highlights access and control over natural resources in relation to a local village election first held in Mengsong village, Y…
The Cultural Politics of Ethnic Identity in Xishuangbanna, China
In 2003, the poverty alleviation bureau in Xishuangbanna, China, introduced tea and rubber as cash crops to raise the incomes of ethnic-minority farmers who were thought to be backward and unfamiliar with markets. Using Marx's commodity fetish and Polly Hill's critique of “cash crops”, this paper analyses the cultural politics of ethnicity for Akha and Dai farmers in relation to tea and rubber. When the prefecture government introduces “cash crop…
Property as Abstraction
Haila questions the dominant 'story' that 'imperfections' in Chinese urban land markets can only be resolved through state sanctioned private property rights. She interrogates the meaning of concepts such as 'market' or 'property', wary of the 'ontological fallacy' in which concepts are confused for real objects. Drawing from Mitchell (1991), we seek to take this farther, by tracing how a distinction between property as representation and as real…
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…
Landscape plasticity and its erasure
For centuries, people who call themselves Akha had formed village landscapes of rotating shifting cultivation fields amid regenerating trees together with enduring wooded sites, all under the purview of their ancestors. In Mengsong, an Akha settlement on the ridge separating China and Burma, farmers had managed complex, biodiverse and flexible landscapes for 250 years. In 1996-1997, my extended research there identified cultivation patterns that …
Claiming and naming resources on the border of the state
This paper explores the intersection of state policies and local interests in allocating and managing resources in mountainous border areas of China and Thailand. These two states differ markedly in policies and approaches both to forests and to ethnic minorities on the periphery. The first section of the paper traces the history of policies in both countries for forested border areas and for forest‐dependent ethnic minorities. The next section e…
Claiming and naming resources on the border of the state
This paper explores the intersection of state policies and local interests in allocating and managing resources in mountainous border areas of China and Thailand. These two states differ markedly in policies and approaches both to forests and to ethnic minorities on the periphery. The first section of the paper traces the history of policies in both countries for forested border areas and for forest‐dependent ethnic minorities. The next section e…
Border Practices, Boundaries, and the Control of Resource Access
This article traces border practices along boundaries that China and Thailand share with Burma. It portrays a spectrum of small border polities, from principalities on the fringes of Southeast Asian kingdoms, through Nationalist troops in Burma following their defeat in China, to 'drug lords' and 'rebel armies'. The focus here is on Akha village heads who have worked their connections in multiple directions, including into Burma, to position them…
Ideological Landscapes
In Xishuangbanna in the 1950s, an ideology of Han as the appropriate ethnicity for advanced industrial work underlay the establishment of state rubber farms as spatially separate from surrounding backward minority farmers. In the 1980s, this clear divide was complicated by state extension of rubber to minority farmers and some state farms recruiting minorities as workers. From the 1990s onward, state concerns with development and the environment …
Pathways of “Indigenous Knowledge” in Yunnan, China
Although the word indigenous is prohibited in China, indigenous knowledge was adopted by a Chinese NGO in Kunming in 1995 to focus on minority farmers' land uses that protect biodiversity. The author's research on Akha farmers in southern Yunnan traced Akha land use from 1950 to 2006, assessing the effects of changing political economies, especially the 1980s switch to a neoliberal path, on Akha land management. Akha practices that maintained bio…
Governing minorities and development in Xishuangbanna, China
Functional Links Between Biodiversity, Livelihoods, and Culture in a Hani Swidden Landscape in Southwest China
Xu, J., L. Lebel, and J. Sturgeon. 2009. Functional links between biodiversity, livelihoods, and culture in a Hani swidden landscape in southwest China. Ecology and Society 14(2): 20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02916-140220
Property as Abstraction
Haila questions the dominant 'story' that 'imperfections' in Chinese urban land markets can only be resolved through state sanctioned private property rights. She interrogates the meaning of concepts such as 'market' or 'property', wary of the 'ontological fallacy' in which concepts are confused for real objects. Drawing from Mitchell (1991), we seek to take this farther, by tracing how a distinction between property as representation and as real…
Quality Control
First authorised in 1987, local village elections in China have been much studied by China scholars to assess the emergence of democracy in the People's Republic. Elected village committees were to manage 'local affairs', including village lands, as a step towards local self-governance. In place of democracy, this article highlights access and control over natural resources in relation to a local village election first held in Mengsong village, Y…
Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia
The Cultural Politics of Ethnic Identity in Xishuangbanna, China
In 2003, the poverty alleviation bureau in Xishuangbanna, China, introduced tea and rubber as cash crops to raise the incomes of ethnic-minority farmers who were thought to be backward and unfamiliar with markets. Using Marx's commodity fetish and Polly Hill's critique of “cash crops”, this paper analyses the cultural politics of ethnicity for Akha and Dai farmers in relation to tea and rubber. When the prefecture government introduces “cash crop…
Cross‐border rubber cultivation between C hina and L aos
This paper is a multi‐sited ethnography of cross‐border rubber cultivation between C hina and L aos. Smallholder minority rubber farmers from X ishuangbanna ( C hina) have forged successful informal share‐cropping arrangements to grow rubber trees on the land of relatives and friends in neighbouring L aos. By becoming rich and entrepreneurial rural citizens, A kha and T ai farmers have also, in their own eyes, raised their own ‘quality’ ( suzhi )…
Introduction – Regionalization at the margins
Enclosing Ethnic Minorities and Forests in the Golden Economic Quadrangle
Ethnic minority farmers in the infamous Golden Triangle were first incorporated into the nation states of China, Laos and Thailand, and later into the economic region called the Golden Economic Quadrangle. This article traces policies in each country for minorities, development and the environment, followed by an analysis of agrarian transitions under economic regionalization. Using the framework of powers of exclusion and racialization, our find…
Taming Tibet
Emily T. Yeh. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvii and 324 pp., maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8014-7832-1), $75.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8014-5155-3).So...
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…
Landscape plasticity and its erasure
For centuries, people who call themselves Akha had formed village landscapes of rotating shifting cultivation fields amid regenerating trees together with enduring wooded sites, all under the purview of their ancestors. In Mengsong, an Akha settlement on the ridge separating China and Burma, farmers had managed complex, biodiverse and flexible landscapes for 250 years. In 1996-1997, my extended research there identified cultivation patterns that …
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