(Un)making the upland: resettlement, rubber and land use planning in Namai village, Laos

This paper highlights how farmers in a northern Lao village transformed their customary land rights – in the face of incoherent overlapping state territorialization attempts – into a territorial strategy to secure their land tenure. By planting rubber, some villagers have engaged in a crop boom to l...

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Main Authors: Kramp, J., Suhardiman, Diana, Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Informa UK Limited 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108912
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Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
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description This paper highlights how farmers in a northern Lao village transformed their customary land rights – in the face of incoherent overlapping state territorialization attempts – into a territorial strategy to secure their land tenure. By planting rubber, some villagers have engaged in a crop boom to lay claim to land which has recently been zoned for upland rice cultivation (and conservation) as part of a state-led land use planning initiative. We show how internal resettlement, ethnic division and the influx of commercial agriculture in the Lao uplands intersect in a novel land use planning process and predetermine the plan’s actual significance.
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spelling CGSpace1089122024-06-26T11:43:35Z (Un)making the upland: resettlement, rubber and land use planning in Namai village, Laos Kramp, J. Suhardiman, Diana Keovilignavong, Oulavanh land use planning rubber industry resettlement highlands customary land rights concession (land) land governance state intervention institutions communities ethnic groups villages social structure farmers strategies cash crops households This paper highlights how farmers in a northern Lao village transformed their customary land rights – in the face of incoherent overlapping state territorialization attempts – into a territorial strategy to secure their land tenure. By planting rubber, some villagers have engaged in a crop boom to lay claim to land which has recently been zoned for upland rice cultivation (and conservation) as part of a state-led land use planning initiative. We show how internal resettlement, ethnic division and the influx of commercial agriculture in the Lao uplands intersect in a novel land use planning process and predetermine the plan’s actual significance. 2022-01-02 2020-07-31T04:24:06Z 2020-07-31T04:24:06Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108912 en Open Access Informa UK Limited Kramp, J.; Suhardiman, Diana; Keovilignavong, Oulavanh. 2022. (Un)making the upland: resettlement, rubber and land use planning in Namai village, Laos. Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(1):78-100. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2020.1762179]
spellingShingle land use planning
rubber industry
resettlement
highlands
customary land rights
concession (land)
land governance
state intervention
institutions
communities
ethnic groups
villages
social structure
farmers
strategies
cash crops
households
Kramp, J.
Suhardiman, Diana
Keovilignavong, Oulavanh
(Un)making the upland: resettlement, rubber and land use planning in Namai village, Laos
title (Un)making the upland: resettlement, rubber and land use planning in Namai village, Laos
title_full (Un)making the upland: resettlement, rubber and land use planning in Namai village, Laos
title_fullStr (Un)making the upland: resettlement, rubber and land use planning in Namai village, Laos
title_full_unstemmed (Un)making the upland: resettlement, rubber and land use planning in Namai village, Laos
title_short (Un)making the upland: resettlement, rubber and land use planning in Namai village, Laos
title_sort un making the upland resettlement rubber and land use planning in namai village laos
topic land use planning
rubber industry
resettlement
highlands
customary land rights
concession (land)
land governance
state intervention
institutions
communities
ethnic groups
villages
social structure
farmers
strategies
cash crops
households
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108912
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