Making a Living the Hmong Way: An Actor-Oriented Livelihoods Approach to Everyday Politics and Resistance in Upland Vietnam

Transforming river basins: Post-livelihood transition agricultural landscapes and implications for natural resource governance

“…In contrast to these gradual changes in landscapes and resource relations, extreme alterations are also underway through opening up of these regions to national and transnational capital, commodities and labor in various commercial ventures that range from aquaculture to biofuel cultivation, tourism and mines (Messerli et al, 2013;Turner, 2012). World over, these investments had led to loss and degradation of arable land and virtual exploitation of other rural natural and common property resources of forests and water (Rulli et al, 2013;Tortajada, 2013).…”

“…Macroeconomic studies on the rural non-farm economy (Barrett et al, 2001;Haggblade et al, 2010;Lanjouw and Lanjouw, 2001;Reardon et al, 2007) and micro-level case studies using Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) (McLennan and Garvin, 2012;Turner, 2012), political economy (Braun and McLees, 2012) political ecology (Batterbury, 2001(Batterbury, , 2010, rural sociology, agricultural economics (Barbier, 2000) human and cultural geography (King, 2011;Vadjunec et al, 2011;Zimmerer, 2014) frameworks are all employed in the analysis and interpretation of livelihood-landscape intersections. More recently, landuse change science literature dealing with drivers of Land Use Land Cover (LULC) change (Ribeiro Palacios et al, 2013) and transition studies (Wang et al, 2011), land grab and acquisition studies (Woodhouse, 2012) and to a limited extent climate change adaptation research (Wohl et al, 2012) have also contributed to livelihood writings.…”

Tourism and Nation Building at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

“…In geography, for example, recent critical studies on tourism have generally pivoted around commodification (P. Jackson 1999;Oakes 2006;Kingsbury 2011;Su 2011), livelihoods (Gibson 2009;McMorran 2012;Turner 2012), and encounters between resident and tourist (Hughes 2008;Duffy and Moore 2010;Gibson 2010;Scheyvens 2011;Durr 2012). These three topics are interrelated insofar as they reflect demands by tourists armed with money, knowledge, and a well-worn passport to experience, engage with, and contribute to authenticity in the far reaches of the globe (Cohen and Cohen 2012).…”

“Nothing Is Like It Was Before”: The Dynamics between Land-Use and Land-Cover, and Livelihood Strategies in the Northern Vietnam Borderlands

“…Such infrastructure has created additional livelihood opportunities for local households to sell agricultural surpluses, gain access to market knowledge or resources, and acquire non-agricultural income [96]. Yet other state-driven interventions and marketoriented economic reforms, including the introduction of and strong state support for hybrid rice and maize seeds, have rarely favored ethnic minorities' indigenous knowledge and historical land uses, but instead have frequently challenged their land-use strategies, often with negative impacts on food security [3,26,45,97].…”