IDEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES: RUBBER IN XISHUANGBANNA, YUNNAN, 1950 to 2007

Sturgeon, Janet C.; Menzies, Nicholas

doi:10.1080/10225706.2006.9684131

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“…Narratives are not neutral but constructed from selective information convenient to fulfil the objectives of the narrators (Blaikie et al, 2007), hence producing a certain version of environmental knowledge and social order (Forsyth and Walker (2008). Walker, 2001;Sturgeon and Menzies, 2006;Forsyth and Walker, 2008) specifically address the interactions between ethnicity and narrative construction, explored further below. Fairhead and Leach, 1995;Hajer, 1995;Walker, 2004;Blaikie et al, 2007;Yeh, 2009;Yeh and Coggins, 2014).…”

Section: Environmental and Development Narrativesmentioning

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Participatory natural resource management in rural China: Making and unmaking environmental narratives

Wang

Fisher

Connell

2018

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Environmental and development discourses in China can be categorised into three narrative motifs framing human-nature relationships: peasant, indigenous, and community. Indigenous and community narratives have been widely adopted by environmental NGOs (eNGOs) in China in promoting communitybased natural resource management projects, but there has been very limited critical research on such phenomena. Analysis of socio-economic change in two ethnic minority communities in Yunnan shows that neither narrative theme is fully internalised by the relevant communities. Instead narratives may be strategically modified or even rejected by local communities. This is due to different agendas being held by local communities and eNGOs, and two factors pertinent to rural China: the incompatibility of concepts of 'community' in Chinese and international contexts results in confusion, and a lack of recent territorial and cultural claims by rural communities since the collectivist era makes it difficult to construct the identity of a community. It remains challenging for eNGOs in China to advocate either community or indigenous narratives in contexts of rapid socio-economic change.

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Section: Environmental and Development Narrativesmentioning

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Participatory natural resource management in rural China: Making and unmaking environmental narratives

Wang

Fisher

Connell

2018

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“…They identified twelve nationalities in Xishuangbanna, ranked, as elsewhere in China, according to a Stalinist model of social development based on modes of production along a continuum from primitive production through slavery, feudalism and early capitalism (Connor, 1984; Harrell, 1995). All minorities in Xishuangbanna were lodged in order below the Han, with ‘primitive’ shifting cultivators ranked lower than the Tai (Dai in Chinese), who cultivated wet rice (Sturgeon and Menzies, 2006). Processes of racialization linked minorities to particular land uses.…”

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“…The industrial mode of production demanded factory‐like production and only the Han nationality was considered sufficiently advanced to be workers. Former soldiers from the Korean War as well as Han peasants from Hunan were brought to Xishuangbanna to establish state rubber farms, excluding local minorities from land and state farm work (Sturgeon and Menzies, 2006). Eleven state farms eventually took up much of the valley floor of Xishuangbanna, clearing sections of tropical rainforest formerly used by Tai farmers, for large monoculture rubber plantations 1 .…”

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Enclosing Ethnic Minorities and Forests in the Golden Economic Quadrangle

Sturgeon

Menzies

Lagerqvist³

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Development and Change

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Ethnic minority farmers in the infamous Golden Triangle were first incorporated into the nation states of China, Laos and Thailand, and later into the economic region called the Golden Economic Quadrangle. This article traces policies in each country for minorities, development and the environment, followed by an analysis of agrarian transitions under economic regionalization. Using the framework of powers of exclusion and racialization, our findings show the changes for ethnic minorities who, with the exception of those in the lowlands, face environmental enclosures that dispossess them from lands on which livelihoods are based. Ideological legacies from the Golden Triangle, including ‘backward’ minorities, the fight against drugs, and threats to national security, continue to inform policies and development projects. While some farmers have become entrepreneurs planting cash crops, most face increasing marginalization under deepening regional capitalism.

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“…The literature on this is large: see, for example, Coquery-Vidrovitch (1972); Cramb et al (2009);Fox et al (2009);Hall et al (2011);Penot (1997); Slocomb (2007); Sturgeon and Menzies (2008); Thongmanivong et al (2009), however few authors make situated comparisons. The literature on this is large: see, for example, Coquery-Vidrovitch (1972); Cramb et al (2009);Fox et al (2009);Hall et al (2011);Penot (1997); Slocomb (2007); Sturgeon and Menzies (2008); Thongmanivong et al (2009), however few authors make situated comparisons.…”

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What's Nature Got To Do With It? A Situated Historical Perspective on Socio‐natural Commodities

Peluso¹

2012

Development and Change

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Nature(s) have been commodified since the early days of capitalism, but through processes and socio-natural relationships mediated by their times, histories and localities. While the conditions under which nature's commodities are being trademarked today may be new, their potential for commodification is not. Commodifications of nature should not come as a surprise to environmental social scientists and activists. In this article, I argue that commodification of ‘nature's products, places and processes’ produces new sorts of socio-natures. Situated histories of rubber are particularly relevant because, like carbon, ecosystem services and other recently commodified natures, rubber sits comfortably on the line between a fictitious commodity and a commodity produced explicitly for market: the latex alone has almost no use value, and to give it any exchange value, it requires processing. Yet analytically, it is still considered a ‘natural commodity’, different from ‘synthetic rubber’ and other tradable tree latexes in qualities and socio-natural characteristics. However, it is the social relations constituting rubber's production and trade in various rainforest and agro-forestry environments that have given it a positive or negative connotation, rather than its natural properties or the ecological contexts within which it has been produced. By situating rubber in three of its globally important temporal and spatial contexts, I show how it has been subjected to fairy-tale-like stories that masked and naturalized its commodity lives of the moment. Understanding how history is told or remains untold is thus an essential part of the politics of knowledge production, but also of human experience and mobilization for change. It should be part of any political ecology analysis.

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IDEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES: RUBBER IN XISHUANGBANNA, YUNNAN, 1950 to 2007

Cited by 25 publications

References 9 publications

Participatory natural resource management in rural China: Making and unmaking environmental narratives

Participatory natural resource management in rural China: Making and unmaking environmental narratives

Enclosing Ethnic Minorities and Forests in the Golden Economic Quadrangle

What's Nature Got To Do With It? A Situated Historical Perspective on Socio‐natural Commodities

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