Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos

Rehbein, Boike

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“…Barney 2009) is as crucial as approaches to the Lao social structure and globalization (e.g. Rehbein 2004;. Since the sociological scope also involves symbolic dynamics of change and continuity, my argument also relates to debates concerning the (re-)enchantment of modernity in contemporary Southeast Asia (e.g.…”

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The Recreational Frontier

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2017

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The Recreational Frontier

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2017

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“…Depending on the technicalities of classification, it is estimated that there are between 50 and 200 ethno-linguistic groups represented in the population 4 (Pholsena, 2006), but these are generally grouped into 5 broad families (Sisouphanthong & Taillard, 2000;Rehbein, 2007 (Sisouphanthong &Taillard, 2000;World Bank, 2006a).…”

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The language of leadership in Laos

2016

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This paper responds to recent calls in the leadership studies literature for anthropologically informed empirical research on leadership phenomena in non-Western and non-Anglophone settings. The authors have worked extensively on rural development projects in Laos and draw on ethnographic ‘observant-participation’ and interview data to explore how leadership is construed in a contested terrain where traditional concepts intersect with those of official government and international development agencies. A theoretical discussion of linguistic relativity and the socially constitutive nature of language in general is offered as background justification for studying the language of leadership in context. The anthropological distinction between etic and emic operations is also introduced to differentiate between various interpretative positions that can be taken in relation to the fieldwork and data discussed in this paper. The study shows how difficult it can be for native Lao speakers to find words to describe leadership or give designations to ‘leaders’ outside of officially sanctioned semantic and social fields. A key finding of the study is that, viewed from the perspective of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, authority and leadership are coextensive. This social fact is reflected in the linguistic restrictions on what can and cannot be described as leadership in Laos.

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“…Lao livelihoods rely on older "sociocultures" (Rehbein, 2007), such as subsistence ecologies and ethics, to which an abstract notion of "nature"…”

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Turning Subsistence Peasants into Ecosystem Servants: Inequality and the Produc-tion of Natural Resources in Lao P.D.R.

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2016

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This paper examines the nexus of nature conservation, productivity and domination in inclusive conservation approaches. It argues that the turning of subsistence peasants into "stewards and custodians of biodiversity" (CBD) represents a soft form of domination according to the false alternatives of ecological instrumentality in that local development is subordinated to supposed "natural" constraints. The argument draws from critical theories of societal nature relations (Horkheimer & Adorno, 2002;Görg, 2003;Moore, 2015) as well as from extensive research on ecotourism as an instrument to reconcile conservation and development in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. From this angle, conservation is seen as a way to produce "natural" resources building on, perpetuating and creating various social inequities, based on the fiction that "nature" is essentially non-human. This case is made with regard to National Protected Areas in Laos, which are designed explicitly to accommodate local people's needs. Among other things, ecotourism is employed to create a source of income alternative to practices seen as "unsustainable". Thereby, economic and also moral stakes in untouched resources are to be implanted. In such way, a compromise between (rather than a reconciliation of) conservation and development is imposed which is largely alien to the lived realities of local people, and only accounting partly for their needs and aspirations -an imposition which tends to produce its own countercurrents, again tying into productivity and inequality. This paper thus analyzes the workings of the nature/society dualism underlying ecological instrumentality as experienced in ecotourism as a tool for nature conservation in Laos.Keywords: instrumentality; conservation; ecotourism; Laos. RESUMO:Este artigo examina o nexo entre conservação da natureza, produtividade e dominação nas abordagens de conservação inclusivas. Argumenta que a transformação de camponeses de subsistência em "administradores e custodiantes de biodiversidade" (CBD) representa uma forma suave de dominação de acordo com as falsas (Horkheimer & Adorno, 2002;Görg, 2003;Moore, 2015), bem como em uma extensa pesquisa sobre o ecoturismo como um instrumento para conciliar conservação e desenvolvimento na República Democrática Popular do Laos. Sob esse ângulo, a conservação é vista como uma forma de produzir recursos "naturais", perpetuando e criando várias desigualdades sociais, com base na ficção de que a "natureza" é essencialmente não humana. Este caso é defendido no que diz respeito às Áreas Nacionais Protegidas no Laos, que são projetadas explicitamente para acomodar as necessidades da população local. Entre outras coisas, o ecoturismo é empregado para criar uma fonte alternativa de renda a práticas vistas como "insustentáveis". Assim, espera-se implantar interesses econômicos e também morais sobre recursos intocados. Desta forma, um compromisso (em vez de uma reconciliação) entre conservação e desenvolvimento é imposto, em grande parte alheio às realidades...

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Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos

Cited by 59 publications

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The Recreational Frontier

The Recreational Frontier

The language of leadership in Laos

Turning Subsistence Peasants into Ecosystem Servants: Inequality and the Produc-tion of Natural Resources in Lao P.D.R.

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