Borderland practices and narratives
Illegal cross-border logging in northeastern Cambodia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarinda Singh (0000-0003-3017-1276, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-159 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138112463805 |
| OpenAlex | W1969890170 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 37 |
In the borderlands of northeastern Cambodia, booming regional demand for luxury rosewood timber has seen the recent expansion of illegal cross-border logging in Laos. This article outlines Khmer-Lao villagers' interactions with border authorities that enable their cross-border logging and their construction of anti-elite political narratives to critically engage with other ethnographic studies of the remote borderlands in Asia. I argue that in the quest to challenge dominant top-down assumptions of the remote borderlands as beyond state power and to highlight the unique dynamics of borderlands, ethnographic studies of these regions can focus overly on political opposition. I propose more recognition of, firstly, the desire and distrust in borderlanders' engagements with different authorities, and secondly, the commonalities in contestation that emerge across different national spaces
Distrust · Elite · Ethnography · Geography · Logging · Narrative · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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Going Nowhere Fast
The security exception
Frontier commoditisation in post‐socialist Southeast Asia
Sparking development or consuming the countryside? Lao charcoal commodity networks in the Mekong Region
Whose border is it anyway? Control, contestation, and confluence in Indo-Myanmar borderlands
Tourism border-making
Identities beyond ethnic-based subordination or conflict in the Southeast Asian borderlands
Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar
States and Illegal Practices
The Art of Not Being Governed
Coexistent Borderlands and Intra‐state Conflicts in Mainland Southeast Asia
Where China Meets Southeast Asia
The Anxieties of Mobility
Cultural Intimacy
Negotiating Autonomy at the Margins of the State
Border Permeability and the State in Southeast Asia
Politics of Natural Resource Use in Cambodia
The Nature and Role of Ideology in the Modern Cambodian State
External actors and the relative autonomy of the ruling elite in post-Untac Cambodia
Korob, Kaud, Klach
The Politics of Gifts
Different views of history
Making spaces
Border Landscapes
Violence, Democracy, and the Neoliberal “Order”
Cambodia in 2011
Cambodia in 2009
Cambodia in 2007
Border Permeability and the State in Southeast Asia
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State (1977)
Natural Potency and Political Power
Transnational Networks, International Organizations and Political Participation in Cambodia
Cross-border activities in everyday life
Toward a Comparative History of Borderlands
The Liberal Way of Development and the Development-Security Impasse
The Political Ecology of Transition in Cambodia 1989-1999
Neoliberal Discursive Formations
Access and Property
The Legend of the Golden Boat
The Romance of Resistance
Imagining the state
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2020 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |