The Political Ecology of Transition in Cambodia 1989-1999
War, Peace and Forest Exploitation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4892451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philippe Le Billon (0000-0002-4635-2998, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 785-805 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-7660.00177 |
| OpenAlex | W2123933636 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 88 |
| References cited | 12 |
Over the last decade, forests have played an important role in the transition from war to peace in Cambodia. Forest exploitation financed the continuation of war beyond the Cold War and regional dynamics, yet it also stimulated co-operation between conflicting parties. Timber represented a key stake in the rapacious transition from the (benign) socialism of the post-Khmer Rouge period to (exclusionary) capitalism, thereby becoming the most politicized resource of a reconstruction process that has failed to be either as green or as democratic as the international community had hoped. This article explores the social networks and power politics shaping forest exploitation, with the aim of casting light on the politics of transition. It also scrutinizes the unintended consequences of the international community's discourse of democracy, good governance, and sustainable development on forest access rights. The commodification of Cambodian forests is interpreted as a process of transforming nature into money through a political ecology of transition that legitimates an exclusionary form of capitalism
Capitalism · Commodification · Democracy · Democratization · Economics · Economy · Political ecology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Socialism · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The nature of peace
Motofish and Trashfish
Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice
Using a political ecology framework to examine extra-legal livelihood strategies
Constellations of Power and Authority in the Political Economy of Illegal Timber Extraction in BTAD, Assam
Geopolitics of the Illicit
Cambodia
Cambodia's Unofficial Regime of Extraction
Buying peace or fuelling war
The Rebel Economy in Civil War
Nobody Knows Best
Toward sustainable and just forest recovery
Linking the past to the future
An examination of forest cover change at Angkor, Cambodia, using satellite imagery, interviews and interpretation of historical events
Unrooted responses
Digging into “Resource War” Beliefs
Forestry taxation for sustainability
War Economies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Poverty in small-scale fisheries
On the transformation of warfare
Using Q methodology to investigate the views of local experts on the sustainability of community-based forestry in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia
Incorporating governance into forest transition frameworks to understand and influence Cambodia's forest landscapes
Illegal logging in Cameroon
Frontier commoditisation in post‐socialist Southeast Asia
Inclusive healthcare and the political settlement in Cambodia
Diverging forest land use dynamics induced by armed conflict across the tropics
Global norms in domestic politics
Transnational environmental crime in the Asia Pacific
Growing Political
Beyond the Square Wheel
Spatial and Political Factors in Forest Resource Conflicts
The Political Ecology of War and Resource Exploitation
Complicit Mechanisms and the Repercussions of Unsuccessful Tropical Forest Management in Cambodia
Tenure security interventions in cambodia
Resource concerns for territorial conflict
I will sample until things get better – or until I die.” Potential and limits of citizen science to promote social accountability for environmental pollution
The Shifting Natures of “Development”
Natural resource extraction and civil conflict
Conflict Timber along the China-Burma Border
Going Nowhere Fast
The Peacebuilding Puzzle
Life, Fish and Mangroves
More-than-human loss
Seeing the local in the global
Fleeing the Homeland, Clearing the Forest
Undoing Cambodia’s Cosmopolitical Fix
Digital Crime, Dirty Money and the State
Indigenous collective land titling and the creation of leftovers
Inside and outside the maps
War and Postwar Violence
Contesting land grabs, negotiating statehood
Can elite corruption be a legitimate Machiavellian tool in an unruly world? The case of post-conflict Cambodia
La paz es “ser campesina”. Construcción de paz ambiental en territorios campesinos de la Amazonía Colombiana
Nature's Materiality and the Circuitous Paths of Accumulation
Fatal Transactions
Pathways for Ukraine’s post-war nature recovery
Precarious livelihoods at the intersection of fishing and sand mining in Cambodia
France, the IUCN and wildlife conservation in Cambodia
Limited state and strong social forces
Political Ecologies of War and Forests
Violence, Democracy, and the Neoliberal “Order”
How Do Natural Resources Influence Civil War? Evidence from Thirteen Cases
Political Ecology and Land Degradation
Geographies of War
The political ecology of war
Peacebuilding and white-collar crime in post-war natural resource sectors
Changing civilian support for the Maoist conflict in India
The shifting regional geopolitics of Mekong dams
Double games
Ashes of co-optation
Peace-building and the predatory political economy of insecurity
Diffuse Authority in the Beedi Commodity Chain
Making place and creating frontiers
After the Grab? Land Control and Regime Survival in Cambodia since 2012
What Do We Know about Natural Resources and Civil War
Le secteur des pêcheries de l'ère « post » au Cambodge
Borderland practices and narratives
Fragmented Territories
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits
Deforestation and democratization
Under the canopy of development aid
Forest, agriculture, and migration
Overlapping zones of exclusion
What happened when the land grab came to Southeast Asia
The formalization fix? Land titling, land concessions and the politics of spatial transparency in Cambodia
The peasants in turmoil
Ceasefire capitalism
GIS and the 'Usual Suspects'-[Mis]understanding Land Use Change in Cambodia
Corruption and state politics in Sierra Leone
Land Degradation and Society
Shadows in the Forest
Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
Quasi-States
Africa and the International System
Third World Political Ecology
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
A History of Cambodia
Commodity Cultures
Theorizing Access
Rainforest Politics
| Unique citing works | 88 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,52 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 83 |