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Are landscape approaches possible under authoritarianism? multi-stakeholder governance and social transformation in Myanmar by Forsyth,T., Springate-Baginski, O.

“…Landscape Approaches have been proposed as a transferable model of multi-stakeholder governance, yet assume conditions of ideal speech, trust, and transparency that seem untransferable to authoritarian regimes. This paper argues that building Landscape Approaches under authoritarian conditions cannot be based on a governance deficit model of awaiting idealized political conditions, but instead needs to pay attention to how local social and political structures influence what is deliberated, and by whom. …”
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State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos by Miles, K.-L., Suhardiman, Diana, Dwyer, M.B.

“…Land grabbing has transformed rural environments across the global South, generating resistance or political reactions “from below”. In authoritarian countries like Laos, where resource investments are coercively developed and insulated from political dissent, resistance appears absent at first glance. …”
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