Not only Anti-dam: Simplistic Rendering of Complex Salween Communities in Their Negotiation for Development in Thailand

Hengsuwan, Paiboon

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77440-4_11

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“…For example, the Hatgyi Dam has been (re)proposed for two decades by the Myanmar state on the mainstem of the Salween in Karen State, and this would impact communities on both sides of the border. Hengsuwan's (2019) research shows how cross‐border mobilisation around the project by diverse actors was not necessarily “anti‐development” or “anti‐state”, but about participating in and shaping development, as we show here.…”

Section: Setting the Context: State‐led Proposals For Damming The Sal...mentioning

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Dams, Diversions, and Development: Slow Resistance and Authoritarian Rule in the Salween River Basin

Fung

Lamb

2023

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We engage geography's longstanding debate on what “counts” as resistance by introducing slow resistance to account for temporal‐political strategies against unjust developments, particularly under authoritarian conditions. We draw on over a decade of fieldwork in the Salween River Basin where dams and diversions have been proposed since 1979, including the most recent iteration, the Yuam River water diversion project in Northwest Thailand. We find that resistance by impacted communities and civil society encompasses slow, strategic, and considered actions over time and generations. Such resistance is necessarily protracted to contest developments (re)proposed over decades. By foregrounding the strategic use of time and temporality, we highlight often overlooked actions and strategies of resistance by a diverse range of actors, showing how resistance movements are incremental and interconnected over time, even when “under the radar”. These strategies are key to contesting and (re)shaping the conditions of development in the Basin.

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confidence: 59%

Dams, Diversions, and Development: Slow Resistance and Authoritarian Rule in the Salween River Basin

Fung

Lamb

2023

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“…Meanwhile, upstream of the proposed dam in the KNU controlled territory communities and civil society have worked towards a vision for a Salween Peace Park that incorporates community‐based conservation work, decentralised energy projects and customary systems of land management, which was officially launched in December 2018 (KNU and KESAN, 2016; Götz, 2019). In Thailand, Hengsuwan (2019) outlines the multiple ways in which communities alongside the Salween River have promoted local forms of development and collaborated with local state agencies including to secure land rights, citizenship rights, access to basic services and the provision of local infrastructure, even as the Hat Gyi Dam project developers have often sought to frame them as anti‐development for their opposition to the dam projects.…”

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The Salween River as a transboundary commons: Fragmented collective action, hybrid governance and power

Suhardiman

Middleton

2020

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Viewing the Salween River as a transboundary commons, this paper illustrates how diverse state and nonstate actors and institutions in hybrid and multi-scaled networks have influenced water governance in general, and large dam decision-making processes in particular. Putting power relations at the centre of this analysis and drawing on the conceptual lenses of hybrid governance and critical institutionalism, we show the complexity of the fragmented processes through which decisions have been arrived at, and their implications. In the context of highly asymmetrical power relations throughout the basin, and the absence of an intergovernmental agreement to date, we argue that hybrid networks of state and non-state actors could be strategically engaged to connect parallel and fragmented decision-making landscapes with a goal of inclusively institutionalising the transboundary commons and maintaining connected local commons throughout the basin, foregrounding a concern for ecological and social justice.

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Environmentalisms in Twenty-First Century Thailand: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Emerging Trajectories

Elinoff

Lamb

2022

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Not only Anti-dam: Simplistic Rendering of Complex Salween Communities in Their Negotiation for Development in Thailand

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Dams, Diversions, and Development: Slow Resistance and Authoritarian Rule in the Salween River Basin

Dams, Diversions, and Development: Slow Resistance and Authoritarian Rule in the Salween River Basin

The Salween River as a transboundary commons: Fragmented collective action, hybrid governance and power

Environmentalisms in Twenty-First Century Thailand: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Emerging Trajectories

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