Borderland practices and narratives: illegal cross-border logging in northeastern Cambodia
Singh, Sarinda (2014) Borderland practices and narratives: illegal cross-border logging in northeastern Cambodia. Ethnography, 15 (2). pp. 135-159.
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Abstract
In the borderlands of northeastern Cambodia, booming regional demand for luxury rosewood timber has seen the recent expansion of illegal cross-border logging in Laos. This article outlines Khmer–Lao villagers' interactions with border authorities that enable their cross-border logging and their construction of anti-elite political narratives to critically engage with other ethnographic studies of the remote borderlands in Asia. I argue that in the quest to challenge dominant top-down assumptions of the remote borderlands as beyond state power and to highlight the unique dynamics of borderlands, ethnographic studies of these regions can focus overly on political opposition. I propose more recognition of, firstly, the desire and distrust in borderlanders' engagements with different authorities, and secondly, the commonalities in contestation that emerge across different national spaces.
| Item ID: | 27835 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1741-2714 |
| Keywords: | borderland, Khmer-Lao villagers, illegal logging, rosewood, resistance, state authority |
| Funders: | University of Queensland |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2015 06:33 |
| FoR Codes: | 16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1601 Anthropology > 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology @ 80% 05 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 0599 Other Environmental Sciences > 059999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified @ 20% |
| SEO Codes: | 95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9599 Other Cultural Understanding > 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified @ 80% 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9699 Other Environment > 969999 Environment not elsewhere classified @ 20% |
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