Reconfiguring rural spaces and remaking rural lives in central Thailand

Rigg, Jonathan; Veeravongs, S.; Veeravongs, L.; Rohitarachoon, Piyawadee

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“…Although the story here also resonates with work in the Central Plains (Rigg et al ., 2008) and Northern region (Rigg and Nattapoolwat, 2001) of Thailand.…”

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Managing risk and vulnerability in Asia: A (re)study from Thailand, 1982–83 and 2008

Rigg

Salamanca

2009

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. ABSTRACTIn the 1980s, rural settlements in the Northeast of Thailand were farming-focused and strategies of living were structured around the need to secure subsistence in the face of a capricious environment and a weak developmental state. More than half of households in the region lived below the poverty line and the immediate prospects for "development" were not bright. Drawing on a 25-year longitudinal study of two villages in Mahasarakham, the paper describes and reflects on how risk and vulnerability have been re-shaped during a quarter of a century of profound economic and social change. From largely environmental and local, the pattern of risk and opportunity have become increasingly economic and non-local as external events wash across the shores of rural settlements like Ban Non Tae and Ban Tha Song Korn.

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“…Although the story here also resonates with work in the Central Plains (Rigg et al ., 2008) and Northern region (Rigg and Nattapoolwat, 2001) of Thailand.…”

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Salamanca

2009

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“…The final piece of research in Hanoi, meanwhile, was based almost entirely on interviews with migrants and their families. Fuller details of the methods employed and the research context can be found in, respectively, Rigg andSalamanca (2011), Bounthong Bouahom et al (2004), Rigg et al (2008), and Nguyen et al (2012). In this paper I use these field studies to provide a grounding for the arguments pursued which are, in turn, linked to other studies (academic and applied) so as to broaden the scope of the paper and embed it in the wider literature.…”

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“…Here I am thinking of the village and the way this interleaves with notions of 'community'. The 'village-community' (the two are often terminologically linked) has become frayed, in large part because villagers' interests have diverged as the settlement has become increasingly heterogeneous (Rigg et al 2008). Without wishing to romanticise the past, the social covenant that use to bind the population of Ban Khokmayom, even in the context of social division, has been fractured, most obviously by the presence of so many migrants who reside in the village, but do not live there.…”

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From Rural to Urban: A Geography of Boundary Crossing in Southeast Asia

Rigg¹

2013

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Migration, mobility, and movement are the inter-linked processes which provide the empirical scaffold for this paper. The paper uses this empirical framing to reflect on a series of methodological, conceptual, and theoretical challenges for scholars of Southeast Asia. Mobility and associated geographical (spatial) boundary crossings have raised questions about the analytical units employed in research; the unsettling of these analytical units has challenged whether conceptual categories still have explanatory purchase; and the fracturing of conceptual categories has implications for the theoretical frameworks that scholars have traditionally deployed. Drawing on field research undertaken in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam the paper argues that evolving mobilities in the region, particularly in rural areas, require a degree of explanatory 'catch-up' on the part of scholars as we try to keep pace with the rate of change in the countryside. Instead of focusing on households in space, we should be trying to map out the networked relations that link lives and individuals across national and transnational space. The paper further argues that we should focus our attention on local-level dynamics associated with societal change, settlement dynamism and sustainability, population turbulence, and evolving cultural preferences which operate partly independently of the rural development project, thus highlighting the shifting web of mutual dependencies and interdependencies that shape lives and living patterns.

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“…There appears to be a spatial dimension to these claims, however, reflecting a geographically divided country. Rigg et al (2008), for example, argue the presence of a "moral economy" in rural lives in Central Thailand yet any existence of this has been challenged by Prayukvong (2005) in the context of the development of community enterprises in Southern Thailand.…”

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Societal values and local responses to appropriate livelihoods, fairness and decisionmaking involvement in ecotourism: Chiang Rai, Thailand

Palmer¹,

Chuamuangphan²

2017

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This paper examines local responses to ecotourism within the broader context of societal values. It acknowledges a strong contextual dimension to understanding those responses, and supports that with in-depth research on three villages in Chiang Rai in northern Thailand. The paper finds that land ownership is a central issue: those without land are those who consider alternative livelihoods to agriculture. Tourism, rather than a development option denied to under-privileged or unconnected members of society, appears to be a key development option for those without land. An uncontested view was expressed that benefits from tourism should be individually received by those involved rather by the community. Involvement in tourism decision-making was low and only desired by those directly involved, as a means of potentially increasing their personal incomes. For those stakeholders, involvement is dependent on village leaders and the representation that local tourism entrepreneurs and workers have through those leaders (based on shared ethnicity). These findings question an understanding within the tourism development literature that situates host communities as empowered through tourism, and adds to increasing criticism of aspects of community--based tourism.

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Reconfiguring rural spaces and remaking rural lives in central Thailand

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Managing risk and vulnerability in Asia: A (re)study from Thailand, 1982–83 and 2008

Managing risk and vulnerability in Asia: A (re)study from Thailand, 1982–83 and 2008

From Rural to Urban: A Geography of Boundary Crossing in Southeast Asia

Societal values and local responses to appropriate livelihoods, fairness and decisionmaking involvement in ecotourism: Chiang Rai, Thailand

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