They Turn Us into Criminals
Embodiments of Fear in Cambodian Land Grabbing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4887709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Schoenberger (0000-0001-7781-9485, York University), A Beban (0000-0001-9618-9669, Massey University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1338-1353 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the American Association of Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-4452 • E-ISSN: 2469-4460 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/24694452.2017.1420462 |
| OpenAlex | W2794109776 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 46 |
Our efforts to research the land grab in Cambodia were thwarted on multiple fronts. This article emerges from our collective experiences of fear and intimidation to reconsider land grabs as a project that produces fear and is reliant on fear. Recent literature on resource conflict focuses on acts of physical violence, but for people who live near spaces of land grabs, the everyday is marked by a different kind of violence, an incoherence and pervasive fear that threatens people's sense of self and the entire social fabric of their worlds. We ground our analysis in insights from several years of ethnographic and survey research experience in land conflict areas in Cambodia, detailing how shadowy networks of actors involved in land grabbing layer memories of war and authoritarian regimes with new threats to control populations and facilitate capital accumulation. We argue that in this context, the “grab” is not just a physical enclosure of land but an affective grab that precedes, surrounds, and reverberates beyond the site of the grab itself. Our article seeks to make theoretical contributions in two ways: theorizing fear as a tool of governance that facilitates state control and capital accumulation and, through this analysis, broadening the ontology of land grabs by foregrounding affect in processes of dispossession to show how the grab reverberates beyond bounded sites. The researcher is also subject to violence, raising questions about what ways of knowing are possible as fear shapes the research process and the subjectivities of both researchers and research participants
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Geography · Land grabbing · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cambodian History and Society · Law
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| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |