Sopheak Chann
Biographic Data
| ID | 755251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sopheak Chann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sopheak |
| FAMILY NAME | Chann |
| SIGNATURE | CHANN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal University of Phnom Penh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6004-7260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Grasping onto land: The emotional political ecology of land on the Tonle Sap Lake Wetlands
Disorientations: The Political Ecology of “Displacing” Floating Communities from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
In this article, we extend a theory of disorientations to reveal how attempts to fix and control both water and people are disrupting once‐fluid relationships between the Tonle Sap Lake and communities who have lived with‐on the lake for generations. Using ethnographic and participatory mapping methods, we examine the socio‐ecological dynamics that preceded and succeeded in the forced relocation of three floating communities in 2018. We argue tha…
The emotional life of rupture at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam
This article aims to extend and deepen our understanding of how emotions figure in experiences of major nature-society disruptions or "rupture." Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam is an example of rupture, which refers to dramatic, adverse, and disruptive episodes that ripple across scale. Against a historical backdrop of land enclosures and dispossession, the dam sparked significant community and civil society resistance. This emotionally c…
Squeezed between Land and Water: Rupture, Frontier-Making, and Resource Conflicts at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam
Hydropower dam projects in the Lower Mekong Basin are part of long-term and interactive land and water transformations, displacement, and violence. Within these ongoing processes, dams represent intense and adverse episodes of disruption that escalate nature-society transformations. Drawing on research at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam (LS2 Dam), we examine how such episodes of nature-society rupture catalyze new waves of frontier-making…
A geographer's place matters: Reflections from a ‘local scholar’ and the politics of North/South knowledge production
The most prominent and influential Geography literatures about the Global South are predominantly produced by scholars in the North and less so by intellectuals whose homes are located in the Global South—the ‘local scholars’. As a Cambodian scholar, I argue that the challenges of participating in collaborative, English language knowledge production derive not merely from skill disparities between international and ‘local’ academics, but also fro…
Climate change migration in the post‐conflict state: Understanding Cambodian migration narratives through geopolitical history and land struggles
While there has been increasing scholarship exploring the social, cultural, and political dimensions of climate change migration, there is to date limited research situating climate migration studies within geopolitical history and land struggles, particularly in post‐conflict states like Cambodia. Four decades after the Khmer Rouge genocide (1975–1979) ended, rural migration and land struggles remain a central aspect of Cambodia's political and …
Making place and creating frontiers: Examining land and resource struggles in Cambodian post-conflict resource landscapes
This article explores place-making in post-conflict resource landscapes by elaborating on the concept of frontier construction. Much of resource frontier literature examines conflicts over access to land and resources, but very few studies look at how places emerge through the process of frontier-making. This article provides an in-depth analysis of place-making in Northwest Cardamom region, a former battlefield and ex-Khmer Rouge stronghold, whe…
Mobilising hydrosocial power: Climate perception, migration and the small scale geography of water in Cambodia
As successive reports have predicted tens or even hundreds of millions of people displaced by climate change in the coming decades, the politics of climate migration has moved to the forefront of contemporary public discourse. In particular, those least able to adapt and most vulnerable to exploitation have garnered media and policy attention. Nevertheless, analysis of this phenomenon is inhibited by the large scale, predominantly unidirectional …
The emotional life of rupture at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam
This article aims to extend and deepen our understanding of how emotions figure in experiences of major nature-society disruptions or "rupture." Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam is an example of rupture, which refers to dramatic, adverse, and disruptive episodes that ripple across scale. Against a historical backdrop of land enclosures and dispossession, the dam sparked significant community and civil society resistance. This emotionally c…
Making place and creating frontiers: Examining land and resource struggles in Cambodian post-conflict resource landscapes
This article explores place-making in post-conflict resource landscapes by elaborating on the concept of frontier construction. Much of resource frontier literature examines conflicts over access to land and resources, but very few studies look at how places emerge through the process of frontier-making. This article provides an in-depth analysis of place-making in Northwest Cardamom region, a former battlefield and ex-Khmer Rouge stronghold, whe…
Squeezed between Land and Water: Rupture, Frontier-Making, and Resource Conflicts at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam
Hydropower dam projects in the Lower Mekong Basin are part of long-term and interactive land and water transformations, displacement, and violence. Within these ongoing processes, dams represent intense and adverse episodes of disruption that escalate nature-society transformations. Drawing on research at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam (LS2 Dam), we examine how such episodes of nature-society rupture catalyze new waves of frontier-making…
Mobilising hydrosocial power: Climate perception, migration and the small scale geography of water in Cambodia
As successive reports have predicted tens or even hundreds of millions of people displaced by climate change in the coming decades, the politics of climate migration has moved to the forefront of contemporary public discourse. In particular, those least able to adapt and most vulnerable to exploitation have garnered media and policy attention. Nevertheless, analysis of this phenomenon is inhibited by the large scale, predominantly unidirectional …
Disorientations: The Political Ecology of “Displacing” Floating Communities from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
In this article, we extend a theory of disorientations to reveal how attempts to fix and control both water and people are disrupting once‐fluid relationships between the Tonle Sap Lake and communities who have lived with‐on the lake for generations. Using ethnographic and participatory mapping methods, we examine the socio‐ecological dynamics that preceded and succeeded in the forced relocation of three floating communities in 2018. We argue tha…
A geographer's place matters: Reflections from a ‘local scholar’ and the politics of North/South knowledge production
The most prominent and influential Geography literatures about the Global South are predominantly produced by scholars in the North and less so by intellectuals whose homes are located in the Global South—the ‘local scholars’. As a Cambodian scholar, I argue that the challenges of participating in collaborative, English language knowledge production derive not merely from skill disparities between international and ‘local’ academics, but also fro…
Climate change migration in the post‐conflict state: Understanding Cambodian migration narratives through geopolitical history and land struggles
While there has been increasing scholarship exploring the social, cultural, and political dimensions of climate change migration, there is to date limited research situating climate migration studies within geopolitical history and land struggles, particularly in post‐conflict states like Cambodia. Four decades after the Khmer Rouge genocide (1975–1979) ended, rural migration and land struggles remain a central aspect of Cambodia's political and …
Grasping onto land: The emotional political ecology of land on the Tonle Sap Lake Wetlands
Mobilising hydrosocial power: Climate perception, migration and the small scale geography of water in Cambodia
As successive reports have predicted tens or even hundreds of millions of people displaced by climate change in the coming decades, the politics of climate migration has moved to the forefront of contemporary public discourse. In particular, those least able to adapt and most vulnerable to exploitation have garnered media and policy attention. Nevertheless, analysis of this phenomenon is inhibited by the large scale, predominantly unidirectional …
Making place and creating frontiers: Examining land and resource struggles in Cambodian post-conflict resource landscapes
This article explores place-making in post-conflict resource landscapes by elaborating on the concept of frontier construction. Much of resource frontier literature examines conflicts over access to land and resources, but very few studies look at how places emerge through the process of frontier-making. This article provides an in-depth analysis of place-making in Northwest Cardamom region, a former battlefield and ex-Khmer Rouge stronghold, whe…
Climate change migration in the post‐conflict state: Understanding Cambodian migration narratives through geopolitical history and land struggles
While there has been increasing scholarship exploring the social, cultural, and political dimensions of climate change migration, there is to date limited research situating climate migration studies within geopolitical history and land struggles, particularly in post‐conflict states like Cambodia. Four decades after the Khmer Rouge genocide (1975–1979) ended, rural migration and land struggles remain a central aspect of Cambodia's political and …
A geographer's place matters: Reflections from a ‘local scholar’ and the politics of North/South knowledge production
The most prominent and influential Geography literatures about the Global South are predominantly produced by scholars in the North and less so by intellectuals whose homes are located in the Global South—the ‘local scholars’. As a Cambodian scholar, I argue that the challenges of participating in collaborative, English language knowledge production derive not merely from skill disparities between international and ‘local’ academics, but also fro…
Disorientations: The Political Ecology of “Displacing” Floating Communities from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
In this article, we extend a theory of disorientations to reveal how attempts to fix and control both water and people are disrupting once‐fluid relationships between the Tonle Sap Lake and communities who have lived with‐on the lake for generations. Using ethnographic and participatory mapping methods, we examine the socio‐ecological dynamics that preceded and succeeded in the forced relocation of three floating communities in 2018. We argue tha…
The emotional life of rupture at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam
This article aims to extend and deepen our understanding of how emotions figure in experiences of major nature-society disruptions or "rupture." Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam is an example of rupture, which refers to dramatic, adverse, and disruptive episodes that ripple across scale. Against a historical backdrop of land enclosures and dispossession, the dam sparked significant community and civil society resistance. This emotionally c…
Squeezed between Land and Water: Rupture, Frontier-Making, and Resource Conflicts at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam
Hydropower dam projects in the Lower Mekong Basin are part of long-term and interactive land and water transformations, displacement, and violence. Within these ongoing processes, dams represent intense and adverse episodes of disruption that escalate nature-society transformations. Drawing on research at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam (LS2 Dam), we examine how such episodes of nature-society rupture catalyze new waves of frontier-making…
Grasping onto land: The emotional political ecology of land on the Tonle Sap Lake Wetlands
Political science (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Cambodian History and Society (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works) · Frontier (3 works)