New Life in an Expanding Market Economy: Moral Issues among Cambodia’s Highland Protestants

Scheer, Catherine

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-2969-1_4

Cited by 5 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 8 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The early rice varieties were usually planted in the corners, taking up no more than a third of the swidden field and could be harvested after 4 months. The various rice ceremonies were important social events where news about the family, agriculture and other important aspects of life were exchanged between relatives, friends and neighbours (Leemann & Nikles, 2017;Scheer, 2017). 18 The number of 458 is an official estimate on Indigenous communities in Cambodia from 2009 by the Department of Local Administration of the Ministry of Interior.…”

Section: Cambodiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nowadays, the communal work groups can be formed between only three and five families from different villages and without kinship relations, who happen to work in close proximity to each other, like the rubber families whose fields were allocated by the rubber companies. Hence, mutual support, caring, cooperating with the workload and social cohesion are less extended (Scheer, 2017) but still shared.…”

Section: From Rice To Rubber: Concessions and Livelihood Change In Bu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Indigenous collective land titling and the creation of leftovers: Insights from Paraguay and Cambodia

Leemann,

Tusing

2023

Journal of Agrarian Change

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Collective land titling often drags on for decades, while private land concessions and holdings do not face the same problem, creating ‘leftovers’ of land available for Indigenous peoples to attempt to collectively title. In two ethnographic case studies in Cambodia and Paraguay, we analyse community‐based Indigenous land titling by focusing on the on‐the‐ground dynamics of property relations, Indigenous livelihood shifts and ecological change. In both countries, large agricultural players implemented a staggering change in local landscapes through deforestation, configuring new realities that in turn feed into local environments and titling processes. Adapting their livelihoods to living in the leftovers, in Cambodia, the Indigenous Bunong shifted from rice to rubber as they navigated the slow titling process. In Paraguay, some Indigenous Guarani shifted from corn to cattle by renting out their collectively titled land. The case studies show that the liberal titling approach to secure Indigenous lands overestimates the ability of title to remove land from capitalist logics such as the push to rent or sell, while some spaces of autonomy are opened. We critique the liberal approaches to formalising title, where Indigenous struggles for their ways of life are funnelled into fighting for collective property.

show abstract

Section: Cambodiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From Rice To Rubber: Concessions and Livelihood Change In Bu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous collective land titling and the creation of leftovers: Insights from Paraguay and Cambodia

Leemann,

Tusing

2023

Journal of Agrarian Change

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Younger pastors like Seng are extremely busy, engaged in a flurry of economic and religious activities that are at a marked disjuncture from the seasonal pattern of Hmong traditional livelihoods. While this busyness was probably quite bewildering to older Hmong farmers, younger Christian elites are modelling a new entrepreneurial lifestyle at an accelerated pace of life; this is one way in which capitalist expansion into the highlands is felt at the everyday level (Scheer 2017).…”

Section: O N C L U S I O Nmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands

Rumsby

2021

Soc Anthropol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article focuses on the role of new Hmong religious leaders – predominantly young men – who have played an important role in spreading Protestant Christianity across Vietnam’s highlands over the past 30 years. These pastors and evangelists have directly challenged the authority of previously established Hmong local elites, whose legitimacy rested on traditional religious authority and/or state patronage, causing significant social conflict along the way. Some new Christian pioneers have gained local elite status as political and development brokers for their community, enjoying a potent combination of spiritual authority, strong external networks and financial success. As such, international religious networks can function as alternative patrons to the state for well‐placed Hmong Christian elites to tap into and redistribute to their communities – to varying degrees. Contextualising such leadership dynamics within wider anthropological scholarship of upland Southeast Asia affirms the ‘pioneering ethos’ of local elites in challenging, complying with or mimicking state forms of governance in their attempts to draw in and channel external potency. This highlights the degree of political manoeuvring space available to non‐state actors in a supposedly authoritarian state, as well as ongoing tensions and controversies facing pastors who negotiate ambiguous relationships with powerful external forces.

show abstract

“…Not surprisingly, three of the contributions to this special issue are located in Christian contexts. The appeal of Christianity, and Protestantism in particular, among uplanders is connected to its distance from the religion of the majority population, its potential for 'redrawing ethnic boundaries' (Ngo 2015), and its transnational and modern character (see, e.g., Salemink 2015;Scheer 2017).…”

Section: E X P L O R I N G S O U R C E S O F P O T E N C Ymentioning

confidence: 99%

Upland pioneers: an introduction

Stolz

Tappe

2021

Soc Anthropol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Drawing on various ethnographic case studies from upland Southeast Asia, this special issue explores uplanders' pioneering agency and challenges the stereotype of the remote and marginal uplander. We consider upland areas as dynamic sites of future-making and change -initiated by pioneering individuals or local elites who seek out and explore different potential sources of (economic and spiritual) potency. By using the figure of the pioneer as heuristic device, we realign our ethnographic gaze on uplanders by giving particular emphasis to: (1) agents of sociopolitical dynamics in Zomia, (2) questions of remoteness and pioneering mobility, (3) old and new sources of potency, from 'the state' to the religious domain, (4) aspirations and future-making and (5) pioneers of change and emergent elites.

show abstract

New Life in an Expanding Market Economy: Moral Issues among Cambodia’s Highland Protestants

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Indigenous collective land titling and the creation of leftovers: Insights from Paraguay and Cambodia

Indigenous collective land titling and the creation of leftovers: Insights from Paraguay and Cambodia

Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands

Upland pioneers: an introduction

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About