Des montagnards aux minorités ethniques

Guérin, Mathieu; Hardy, Andrew; Chính, Nguyễn Văn; Hwee, Stan Tan Boon

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“…It was a period of relapse, perceived as encouraging, because indigenous peoples felt that they could do what they wanted. Enquiries conducted in other locations at a different period (Guérin et al ., ) corroborate the claims of the majority of the people that I met in villages in the mid‐1990s. Ethnic minorities believed they could build their future once again according to their world views.…”

Section: Interlude After Warfare: New Attempts To Re‐socialise Naturesupporting

confidence: 78%

“…The builders of the Angkor temples called largely upon their forced services by instituting a recruitment system that extended beyond the present Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese borders. The slave trade is mentioned in a royal prescription published in 1621, with rules of inobservance (Martin, ), but human hunting continued under the Protectorate and after in the north (Guérin et al ., : 142–146).…”

Section: Long‐term Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the early 1960s, the Sihanouk policy of assimilation was followed by an attempted colonisation by voluntary landless in‐migrants from south Cambodia (Meyer, ; Bourdier, ). It was decided to ‘civilize’ the populations and save them from barbarity, ignorance and misery (Guérin et al ., : 55–56). A model had to be proposed.…”

Section: Long‐term Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Socio-ecological transformations in a tributary region of the Mekong in Cambodia: Culture of resistance or resistance of culture?

Bourdier¹

2015

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This paper highlights the evolution of the relations between highlanders and lowlanders that took place in one of the Mekong's riparian eastern territories in Ratanakiri province. It contributes to knowledge and debate on the impacts of landscape transformation and dispossession on indigenous peoples and their culture in upland Cambodia. The first section considers the legacy of the past and emphasises successive attempts of resistance. It contributes to an understanding of why highlanders opted to live in a forest milieu, not isolated from outsiders but careful to maintain some distance. The second section delineates the evolution of the interactions between natural ecosystems and social ecosystems in the changing tributary region. The last section documents major changes that have recently occurred under the guise of development. It questions the remaining possibilities for indigenous people to continue living with dignity in a shrunken territory in the present sociopolitical environment. The conclusion proposes research orientations focusing on some neglected dimensions of indigenous cultures dealing with new forms of resistances.

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Section: Interlude After Warfare: New Attempts To Re‐socialise Naturesupporting

confidence: 78%

Section: Long‐term Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Long‐term Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Socio-ecological transformations in a tributary region of the Mekong in Cambodia: Culture of resistance or resistance of culture?

Bourdier¹

2015

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“…The Lao case differs from those of Thailand and Cambodia (where the highland minorities account for 1 per cent and 10 per cent respectively of the population, as against nearly 40 per cent of the population in Laos), and Vietnam (where most of the State-sponsored migrations occurred from the lowland to the highland). For information on resettlement in neighbouring countries, see Guerin et al (2003) local administrations are finding difficult to control. To understand these 'resettlement-induced' forms of mobility, it is necessary to examine both the forms of social organization of these populations, and the local context of interethnic relationships.…”

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Planned Resettlement, Unexpected Migrations and Cultural Trauma in Laos

Évrard¹,

Goudineau²

2004

Development and Change

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Though not officially considered a ‘policy’ by the Lao government, resettlement of ethnic minorities has become a central feature of the rural development strategy in Laos. Over the past ten years, a majority of highland villages have been resettled downhill, and the local administrations are planning to move the remaining villages in the coming years. This article draws on a national survey about resettlement in Laos, commissioned by UNESCO and financed by UNDP, that was undertaken by the authors. It focuses on the consequences of these huge shifts of population and on the social and cultural dynamics that underlie them. It shows that the planned resettlements, which are intended to promote the ‘settling’ of the highland populations by enforcing the ban on slash‐and‐burn agriculture and opium growing, actually cause increased and diversified rural mobility. This in turn complicates the implementation of the rural development policy and the political management of interethnic relationships. In other words, the ‘settling’ process promoted by the State, because of its broad and often tragic social consequences, can paradoxically generate unplanned or unexpected further migrations, which could be called ‘resettlement‐induced forms of mobility’

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“…Endnotes 1 Notably with regard to the most recent book length study of these transformations by Guérin et al (2003). Both books under review are well documented, but it seems that no contributor to either volume engages with the arguments of this study (though without an exhaustive reading of the footnotes I cannot be sure that this is true of Minorities at Large, which regrettably does not contain a bibliography).…”

Section: Flat Hillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographical Thought: An Introduction to Ideas in Human Geography by AnoopNayak and AlexJeffrey. Pearson Education, Harlow, 2011, xv + 337 pages (ISBN 978‐0‐13‐222824‐4) (pbk).

Johnston¹

2012

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Des montagnards aux minorités ethniques

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Socio-ecological transformations in a tributary region of the Mekong in Cambodia: Culture of resistance or resistance of culture?

Socio-ecological transformations in a tributary region of the Mekong in Cambodia: Culture of resistance or resistance of culture?

Planned Resettlement, Unexpected Migrations and Cultural Trauma in Laos

Geographical Thought: An Introduction to Ideas in Human Geography by AnoopNayak and AlexJeffrey. Pearson Education, Harlow, 2011, xv + 337 pages (ISBN 978‐0‐13‐222824‐4) (pbk).

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