Living with landmines
Inhabiting a war-altered landscape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2391234 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Arensen (0000-0002-6461-3792, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 91-106 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359183521997506 |
| OpenAlex | W3196936774 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
Mined land in Cambodia possesses hazardous potential for those willing to risk its inhabitation, but this potentiality is commingled with threat and uncertainty. Mined terrain creates sites where the affordances of place clash with its dangerous materialities. Village residents in this study were engaged in ongoing efforts to physically alter the place they inhabited, but these tectonic processes were not always successful. The presence of military waste transformed the landscape into an unfamiliar ecological terrain of intermingled organic and potentially explosive inorganic elements. By 2009, large swathes of village land had been cleared of both mines and wild vegetation, giving villagers a hard-earned sense of safety. However, ongoing uncertainty remained about the state of the ground and the things buried within it. Amidst the struggle to reclaim the landscape for agriculture, mines sometimes interposed themselves, their detonations damaging bodies and lives and unsettling residents' sense of place
Affordance · Archaeology · Clearance · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Geography · Indigenous · State (computer science · Terrain · Vegetation (pathology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Cambodian History and Society · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Ecology
Place and Landscape
Art And Agency
At the Potter’s Wheel
Bomb Ecologies
Notes on the theory of the actor-network
Reassembling the Social
Balancing risk
The K5 Gamble
The political ecology of recovery from armed conflict
Maps, Measurements, and Landmines
Living on the Frontline
Bindings against Boundaries
Toward an Anthropology of Landmines
Between tortured bodies and resurfacing bones
Landscape as a Provocation
Waste Matter - The Debris of Industrial Ruins and the Disordering of the Material World
Imperial Debris
Graves, ruins, and belonging
Iron in the soil
The Things that Remain
Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought
Materials against materiality
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |