Vatthana Pholsena
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 171541 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vatthana Pholsena |
| PRENOMES | Vatthana |
| SOBRENOME | Pholsena |
| ASSINATURA | PHOLSENA V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5833-7691 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
What is shared and what is not
This article investigates memories of the Cold War era in Thailand, through online practices on Facebook pages administered by residents of a borderland province in the Northeast that was a key front line during the conflict. The possibilities for greater access to, and dissemination of, information afforded by digital media technologies have created a new environment for the production of shared knowledge about the past. However, on these pages,…
The Battle of Thakhek, 21 March 1946
This article explores the life of an event—a massacre during the First Indochina War on 21 March 1946 in Thakhek, Laos—in the border town of Nakhon Phanom in northeastern Thailand, to where most of the survivors fled. Ignored by Thai authorities and not memorialized in social practices, this event nevertheless continues to have significant impacts on local communities. This article draws on two key concepts: Paul Ricoeur’s “mnemonic act” and Aver…
Introduction
We introduce this symposium on the politics and spaces of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, locating the papers as concept explorations resting on case studies that contextualize and historicize Belt and Road Initiative. In the case of the first paper that follows, this includes an exploration of the historiography of one of Belt and Road Initiative’s conditions of possibility, the Silk Road idea. We chart a burgeoning field of debate about Belt …
Mobility, familiarity and prejudice
Research on coexistence and urban diversity (notably in the United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore) has demonstrated the ways individuals of diverse backgrounds routinely manage differences and interact meaningfully in multicultural societies, drawing on shared cultural knowledge and habits. This paper argues for a deeper exploration of societies where intercultural know-how is more limited and the capacity to negotiate difference has …
South East Asia
State formation, social hierarchies, and ethnic dynamics
State formation below the national scale remains under-researched. In this article, the reconstitution of the local history of an upland region of Laos - Sepon - reveals a process of state formation from a territorial margin. Contrary to James C. Scott's thesis on state-evading peoples, members of a local ethnic minority population - the Phuthai - have been part of the making of the state over centuries. In addition to the material aspects of sta…
Changing Lives in Laos
Academic research on Laos has grown significantly over the past decade. This growth in the field of Lao studies is well synthesized in Vanina Boute and Vatthana Pholsena's edited volume Changing Lives in Laos. Incorporating the expertise of an impressive range of scholars, the 15-chapter book is thematically grouped under four research themes: state formation and political legitimation; natural resource governance and agrarian change; ethnic mino…
Laos
L’affaire de la disparition de Sombath Somphone continuait d’agiter en 2013 la communauté des personnes travaillant dans le milieu du développement au Laos et dans la région, au point d’éclipser dans les médias internationaux l’accession du Laos à l’Organisation mondiale du commerce en février. La transformation du paysage agraire se poursuivait grâce à l’apport d’investissements étrangers, tout en continuant de soulever des résistances locales. …
Interactions with a Violent Past
The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Today's Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain to reeducation cam…
Interactions with a Violent Past
The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Today’s Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain to reeducation cam…
The (Transformative) Impacts of the Vietnam War and the Communist Revolution in a Border Region in Southeastern Laos
This article is an investigation in the longue durée of the uneven transformation of a ‘borderless land’ into a ‘state space’ in the course of one of the most violent conflicts in the contemporary history of Southeast Asia. It focuses on a strategically important area along the Lao-Vietnamese border that was captured by communist forces in the early 1960s and targeted by intense US bombing. I argue that the process of state-making in this border …
Life under Bombing in Southeastern Laos (1964–1973) Through the Accounts of Survivors in Sepon
This article draws on fieldwork carried out between 2004 and 2010 in the rural district of Sepon, located in the east of Savannakhet Province in southern Laos. The area was heavily bombed by U.S. forces between 1964 and 1973 in an attempt to stop North Vietnamese supplies flowing into South Vietnam from the North via the transportation network widely known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The district of Sepon constituted a strategic centre and logistic…
The Experience of War Four Sino-Indochinese Perspectives
US Rapprochement with Laos and Cambodia
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 32, Number 3, December 2010
Nommer pour contrôler au Laos, de l'État colonial au régime communiste
The various regimes that have marked the contemporary political history of Laos – the French colonial state (1893-1953), the Independent Kingdom of Laos (1953-1975) and, since 1975, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR) – have all carried out ethnic censuses. The classifications that have been used over the course of these three political periods highlight the rulers’ desire to define the community they seek to dominate. For this reason, th…
Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos
Post-war Laos
More than a quarter of century after the end of the war in 1975, the Lao leadership is still in search for a compelling nationalist narration. Its politics of culture and representation appear to be caught between the rhetoric of preservation and the desire for modernity. Meanwhile, originating from the periphery where ethnic minorities had hitherto been symbolically, politically and administratively confined, the participation of some of their m…
The Early Years of the Lao Revolution (1945–49)
This paper reviews a crucial period in Lao history, the early years of the revolution between 1945 and 1949, with a special focus on the hinterland areas of south-eastern Laos. Along with the professional historians' reconstituted past, two other analytically different approaches to the narration of this period are discussed: the myth-making narration as found in a recently published Lao history book, and the narrative as remembered by a war vete…
A Liberal Model of Minority Rights for an Illiberal Multiethnic State? The Case of the Lao PDR
Laos in 2004 Towards Subregional Integration
The year 2004 marked tenth anniversary of opening of first Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge that permits travel by road between Vientiane and Nongkhai. The completion of bridge seemed to signal beginning of a new era. Wars in region had frozen project for almost three decades. As recently as 1987-88, Thailand and Laos were involved in a border dispute that escalated into a military conflict. The bridge therefore appeared to highlight a significant shif…
Laos in 2004
The Changing Historiographies of Laos
The narrative of the origins of the Lao people in contemporary Lao-language history books and textbooks is divided among divergent interpretations. The most popular reading is the ‘Ai-Lao’ version, an implicit response to Thai nationalist historiography. Marxist-Leninist-orientated historiography, by contrast, resembles the Vietnamese Communist narrative. As far as likely future trends are concerned, a journey back to the ‘roots’ seems ultimately…
Nation/Representation
International audience
Introduction
We introduce this symposium on the politics and spaces of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, locating the papers as concept explorations resting on case studies that contextualize and historicize Belt and Road Initiative. In the case of the first paper that follows, this includes an exploration of the historiography of one of Belt and Road Initiative’s conditions of possibility, the Silk Road idea. We chart a burgeoning field of debate about Belt …
Nation/Representation
International audience
The (Transformative) Impacts of the Vietnam War and the Communist Revolution in a Border Region in Southeastern Laos
This article is an investigation in the longue durée of the uneven transformation of a ‘borderless land’ into a ‘state space’ in the course of one of the most violent conflicts in the contemporary history of Southeast Asia. It focuses on a strategically important area along the Lao-Vietnamese border that was captured by communist forces in the early 1960s and targeted by intense US bombing. I argue that the process of state-making in this border …
Mobility, familiarity and prejudice
Research on coexistence and urban diversity (notably in the United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore) has demonstrated the ways individuals of diverse backgrounds routinely manage differences and interact meaningfully in multicultural societies, drawing on shared cultural knowledge and habits. This paper argues for a deeper exploration of societies where intercultural know-how is more limited and the capacity to negotiate difference has …
State formation, social hierarchies, and ethnic dynamics
State formation below the national scale remains under-researched. In this article, the reconstitution of the local history of an upland region of Laos - Sepon - reveals a process of state formation from a territorial margin. Contrary to James C. Scott's thesis on state-evading peoples, members of a local ethnic minority population - the Phuthai - have been part of the making of the state over centuries. In addition to the material aspects of sta…
Interactions with a Violent Past
The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Today's Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain to reeducation cam…
Changing Lives in Laos
Academic research on Laos has grown significantly over the past decade. This growth in the field of Lao studies is well synthesized in Vanina Boute and Vatthana Pholsena's edited volume Changing Lives in Laos. Incorporating the expertise of an impressive range of scholars, the 15-chapter book is thematically grouped under four research themes: state formation and political legitimation; natural resource governance and agrarian change; ethnic mino…
Life under Bombing in Southeastern Laos (1964–1973) Through the Accounts of Survivors in Sepon
This article draws on fieldwork carried out between 2004 and 2010 in the rural district of Sepon, located in the east of Savannakhet Province in southern Laos. The area was heavily bombed by U.S. forces between 1964 and 1973 in an attempt to stop North Vietnamese supplies flowing into South Vietnam from the North via the transportation network widely known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The district of Sepon constituted a strategic centre and logistic…
The Early Years of the Lao Revolution (1945–49)
This paper reviews a crucial period in Lao history, the early years of the revolution between 1945 and 1949, with a special focus on the hinterland areas of south-eastern Laos. Along with the professional historians' reconstituted past, two other analytically different approaches to the narration of this period are discussed: the myth-making narration as found in a recently published Lao history book, and the narrative as remembered by a war vete…
Nation/Representation
International audience
The Changing Historiographies of Laos
The narrative of the origins of the Lao people in contemporary Lao-language history books and textbooks is divided among divergent interpretations. The most popular reading is the ‘Ai-Lao’ version, an implicit response to Thai nationalist historiography. Marxist-Leninist-orientated historiography, by contrast, resembles the Vietnamese Communist narrative. As far as likely future trends are concerned, a journey back to the ‘roots’ seems ultimately…
A Liberal Model of Minority Rights for an Illiberal Multiethnic State? The Case of the Lao PDR
Laos in 2004 Towards Subregional Integration
The year 2004 marked tenth anniversary of opening of first Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge that permits travel by road between Vientiane and Nongkhai. The completion of bridge seemed to signal beginning of a new era. Wars in region had frozen project for almost three decades. As recently as 1987-88, Thailand and Laos were involved in a border dispute that escalated into a military conflict. The bridge therefore appeared to highlight a significant shif…
Laos in 2004
Post-war Laos
More than a quarter of century after the end of the war in 1975, the Lao leadership is still in search for a compelling nationalist narration. Its politics of culture and representation appear to be caught between the rhetoric of preservation and the desire for modernity. Meanwhile, originating from the periphery where ethnic minorities had hitherto been symbolically, politically and administratively confined, the participation of some of their m…
The Early Years of the Lao Revolution (1945–49)
This paper reviews a crucial period in Lao history, the early years of the revolution between 1945 and 1949, with a special focus on the hinterland areas of south-eastern Laos. Along with the professional historians' reconstituted past, two other analytically different approaches to the narration of this period are discussed: the myth-making narration as found in a recently published Lao history book, and the narrative as remembered by a war vete…
Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos
Nommer pour contrôler au Laos, de l'État colonial au régime communiste
The various regimes that have marked the contemporary political history of Laos – the French colonial state (1893-1953), the Independent Kingdom of Laos (1953-1975) and, since 1975, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR) – have all carried out ethnic censuses. The classifications that have been used over the course of these three political periods highlight the rulers’ desire to define the community they seek to dominate. For this reason, th…
Life under Bombing in Southeastern Laos (1964–1973) Through the Accounts of Survivors in Sepon
This article draws on fieldwork carried out between 2004 and 2010 in the rural district of Sepon, located in the east of Savannakhet Province in southern Laos. The area was heavily bombed by U.S. forces between 1964 and 1973 in an attempt to stop North Vietnamese supplies flowing into South Vietnam from the North via the transportation network widely known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The district of Sepon constituted a strategic centre and logistic…
The Experience of War Four Sino-Indochinese Perspectives
US Rapprochement with Laos and Cambodia
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 32, Number 3, December 2010
The (Transformative) Impacts of the Vietnam War and the Communist Revolution in a Border Region in Southeastern Laos
This article is an investigation in the longue durée of the uneven transformation of a ‘borderless land’ into a ‘state space’ in the course of one of the most violent conflicts in the contemporary history of Southeast Asia. It focuses on a strategically important area along the Lao-Vietnamese border that was captured by communist forces in the early 1960s and targeted by intense US bombing. I argue that the process of state-making in this border …
Interactions with a Violent Past
The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Today’s Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain to reeducation cam…
Laos
L’affaire de la disparition de Sombath Somphone continuait d’agiter en 2013 la communauté des personnes travaillant dans le milieu du développement au Laos et dans la région, au point d’éclipser dans les médias internationaux l’accession du Laos à l’Organisation mondiale du commerce en février. La transformation du paysage agraire se poursuivait grâce à l’apport d’investissements étrangers, tout en continuant de soulever des résistances locales. …
Interactions with a Violent Past
The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Today's Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain to reeducation cam…
Changing Lives in Laos
Academic research on Laos has grown significantly over the past decade. This growth in the field of Lao studies is well synthesized in Vanina Boute and Vatthana Pholsena's edited volume Changing Lives in Laos. Incorporating the expertise of an impressive range of scholars, the 15-chapter book is thematically grouped under four research themes: state formation and political legitimation; natural resource governance and agrarian change; ethnic mino…
State formation, social hierarchies, and ethnic dynamics
State formation below the national scale remains under-researched. In this article, the reconstitution of the local history of an upland region of Laos - Sepon - reveals a process of state formation from a territorial margin. Contrary to James C. Scott's thesis on state-evading peoples, members of a local ethnic minority population - the Phuthai - have been part of the making of the state over centuries. In addition to the material aspects of sta…
South East Asia
Introduction
We introduce this symposium on the politics and spaces of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, locating the papers as concept explorations resting on case studies that contextualize and historicize Belt and Road Initiative. In the case of the first paper that follows, this includes an exploration of the historiography of one of Belt and Road Initiative’s conditions of possibility, the Silk Road idea. We chart a burgeoning field of debate about Belt …
Mobility, familiarity and prejudice
Research on coexistence and urban diversity (notably in the United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore) has demonstrated the ways individuals of diverse backgrounds routinely manage differences and interact meaningfully in multicultural societies, drawing on shared cultural knowledge and habits. This paper argues for a deeper exploration of societies where intercultural know-how is more limited and the capacity to negotiate difference has …
What is shared and what is not
This article investigates memories of the Cold War era in Thailand, through online practices on Facebook pages administered by residents of a borderland province in the Northeast that was a key front line during the conflict. The possibilities for greater access to, and dissemination of, information afforded by digital media technologies have created a new environment for the production of shared knowledge about the past. However, on these pages,…
The Battle of Thakhek, 21 March 1946
This article explores the life of an event—a massacre during the First Indochina War on 21 March 1946 in Thakhek, Laos—in the border town of Nakhon Phanom in northeastern Thailand, to where most of the survivors fled. Ignored by Thai authorities and not memorialized in social practices, this event nevertheless continues to have significant impacts on local communities. This article draws on two key concepts: Paul Ricoeur’s “mnemonic act” and Aver…
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