“ Join Together, Work Together, for the Common Good — Solidarity” : Village Formation Processes in the Rural South of Laos

High, Holly

doi:10.1355/sj21-1b

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“…In light of these findings, the significance of an absence of community cannot be overstated. This is not to assume familial or hometown ‘solidarity’ (High, ), but to highlight the very real challenges educational migrants face without support.…”

Section: Discussion: the Criticality Of Reciprocity Between Educationmentioning

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The critical need for reciprocity between educational migrants and communities for continuing education and socio‐cultural capital in Laos

Langill

Willis

2019

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Reciprocity between student success and community support has emerged as a strong theme in a phenomenological case study that was conducted amongst post‐primary educational migrant students1 in Laos. Students clearly articulated their dependence upon community support and the ways in which they gave back to their communities in exchange for their continuing education. The descriptions of their experiences were indicative of hierarchical interdependence and highlighted the effects of urbanisation on educational migrants and their lifelong learning. This study draws on Bourdieu's capital theory to understand community and reciprocity as indicators of cultural and social capital. Findings revealed that building relationships between students and their communities is essential to advancing post‐primary education in Laos.

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Section: Discussion: the Criticality Of Reciprocity Between Educationmentioning

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The critical need for reciprocity between educational migrants and communities for continuing education and socio‐cultural capital in Laos

Langill

Willis

2019

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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“…The district paid the salary of the two teachers (teaching years one, two, and three), but it offered no funding for the construction or maintenance of school buildings and grounds. Village residents were required by government policy to come up with the funds and labor for these purposes themselves (High 2006). I had felt motivated upon my arrival in the field in mid‐2002 to offer to help the village as a whole as part of my appreciation of residents’ consent to take part in my research: Giving something back to the field seemed to me to be part of ethical fieldwork.…”

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“…Village leaders were left to admonish the group of workers, exhorting them to “work together, for the common good, with solidarity,” but they had little success. Privately, village leaders expressed their frustrations with these confrontations and their fear that their neighbors would come to hate them if they insisted more forcefully on cooperation (see High 2006). One leader disclosed to me that he was exerting himself to find the funds and labor needed to complete the school project because he knew that my fieldwork was coming to an end and he personally wanted me to see the finished school before I left.…”

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Ethnographic exposures: Motivations for donations in the south of Laos (and beyond)

High¹

2010

American Ethnologist

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In January 2009, I arranged the renovation of a school in my field site in the south of Laos with funds raised from donors in Australia. This project was initiated at the request of village leaders, and, initially, I saw it as a chance to acknowledge the generous assistance that residents had granted me during my fieldwork. However, the execution of the project was tense, particularly when it brought to the surface long‐running ambiguities arising from my adoption as a daughter into a particular Lao family. This adoption, like the school project itself, involved a series of donations that could be interpreted as either self‐serving or altruistic—or both. Antagonisms, repressed in donations intended to produce solidarity, make frequent return and imbue those donations with an ambiguous character. Thus, although such exchanges are essential to everyday life in the south of Laos (and to fieldwork), they are also precarious and can lead to conflict as easily as to peace. This ambivalence is especially pronounced in the cross‐cultural context of fieldwork, in which the ethnographer is invited to seek out relationships of solidarity and shared understanding but also confronts his or her own specificity. [Laos, the gift, ethnographic fieldwork, fantasy, exchange]

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“…The cultural value may have a bearing on the transaction costs and probably goes both ways. The traditional culture of solidarity in Laotian societies has a positive influence in quickly bringing consensus, but it is also likely to give a negative bearing if there is a need for a radical and immediate decision (High 2006). The fishing day in Savannakhet has built on the historical tradition of communal sharing.…”

Section: Community Conditionsmentioning

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Hanging in balance: benefit sharing in community-based fishery resource management in the Lower Mekong Basin

Minh

2008

Local Environment

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Collective management of resources has enjoyed a remarkable rise to prominence across resource governance, but many questions remain. What benefits are created and who are the recipients? Are these benefits and incentives sufficient to enable communities to collaborate for longer-term management? A clear conceptual framework is needed to better understand these social, economic and environmental impacts. The paper responds to this need and presents a new tool to analyse benefits and benefit-sharing within and between communities in relation to poverty reduction and conservation through two cases of community fisheries management in Lower Mekong Basin.

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“ Join Together, Work Together, for the Common Good — Solidarity” : Village Formation Processes in the Rural South of Laos

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

The critical need for reciprocity between educational migrants and communities for continuing education and socio‐cultural capital in Laos

The critical need for reciprocity between educational migrants and communities for continuing education and socio‐cultural capital in Laos

Ethnographic exposures: Motivations for donations in the south of Laos (and beyond)

Hanging in balance: benefit sharing in community-based fishery resource management in the Lower Mekong Basin

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