After dispossession

Shifting livelihoods and lives since the advent of a rubber plantation in southern Laos

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ID9084012
AuthorsTomoko Nakata (corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume52
Issue3
Pages492-514
Publication date2021-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Southeast Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4634 • E-ISSN: 1474-0680
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s002246342100076x
OpenAlexW3208786448
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

The 2005 launch of a large-scale rubber plantation in Bachiang district, one of several in southern Laos, caused serious discontent among the local villagers whose traditional farming and foraging lands were seized and leased to a rubber company. This and other similar rubber developments based on land concessions in the south have drawn criticism from various quarters, including scholars and nongovernmental organisations. This study highlights how the locals’ views, livelihoods and lifestyles have been changing since the plantation was established, especially since rubber tapping began, and focuses on desires that may have directed their actions. Through an ethnographic approach tracing these changes over time, this study demonstrates that differentiation and diversification within the village have become increasingly apparent owing to both the recent shift to plantation work and other impacts and changes brought about by wider society

Agriculture · Archaeology · Business · Development economics · Diversification (marketing strategy) · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Geography · Livelihood · Political science · Work (physics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cambodian History and Society · Engineering · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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