“They Turn Us into Criminals”: Embodiments of Fear in Cambodian Land Grabbing

Schoenberger, Laura; Beban, Alice

doi:10.1080/24694452.2017.1420462

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“…In his work as both an activist and a researcher with a group of Roma evictees challenging their displacement from a housing unit in Bucharest through a prolonged protest encampment, Lancione observes how the state produces forms of affective 'inertia' which mitigate the power of resistance through the exhausting processes of repeated procedure and bureaucracy. A similar narrative is also found in Schoenberger and Beban's (2018) account of land grabs in Cambodia as "affective grabs" which mobilise fears and anxieties in the process of enclosure. Cambodian land clearances occur most in rural areas, and often involve military personnel who came to power under the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.…”

Section: Evicting Timesupporting

confidence: 58%

“…While this provides 'deep' immersion and detailed description, there are obvious questions here about the extent to which a researcher, in possession of a degree of racial and economic power, is actively reproducing harmful social phenomena when producing real-time accounts of evictions in process. Alternatively, Schoenberger and Beban (2018) have suggested the use of 'periscoping' methodologies that allow researchers to use multiple contextual sets of data which can then be used to reconstruct displacements. While this method was developed to allow access to forms of displacement the local and national state wishes to conceal, it may help create observation and research which lessen the footprint of researchers who are trying to study evictions across multiple contexts.…”

Section: Research After Evictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From eviction to evicting: Rethinking the technologies, lives and power sustaining displacement

Baker

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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An unnamed shift has occurred in geographies of eviction. While past research focused on the causes and effects of eviction in political economy, state power, and cultural difference, emerging work emphasises the subjective experience and sustaining practices of eviction as it happens. This paper makes the case for this turn away from causes and outcomes of ‘eviction’, and towards ‘evicting’ as a set of material technologies and practices that sustain displacement, and explores the implications of such a shift. Research into lived durations of eviction, evicting technologies, and eviction enforcement agencies opens up new conceptual and political fields of intervention.

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Section: Evicting Timesupporting

confidence: 58%

Section: Research After Evictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

From eviction to evicting: Rethinking the technologies, lives and power sustaining displacement

Baker

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Similarly, Schoenberger and Beban (2018) describe how their own experiences of fear and surveillance while doing fieldwork on land acquisitions in Cambodia allowed them to better grasp the affective experience of their research participants who were caught in conflicts over land. Initially, their participants’ stated sources of fear “seemed banal … and not particularly threatening” (1340): a phone call late at night.…”

Section: Anxious Encountersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“To me, you are not a Serb”: Ethnicity, ambiguity, and anxiety in post-war Sarajevo

Golubović

2019

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The siege of Sarajevo has altered the experience of ethnicity, reconfiguring ethnic categories into moral boundaries. From 1992 to 1995, the city was held under siege by the Army of Republika Srpska, and many Sarajevan Serbs still grapple today with the feeling that others view them as aggressors. Based on one year of ethnographic fieldwork with Serb women of the pre-war generations, I describe how they intentionally make small alterations in gesture and body language in order to perform ethnic ambiguity, and avoid being read by others as Serb. While anthropological accounts have tended to use performativity to emphasize the constructed and situational nature of ethnicity, here I focus on the anxiety that drives Serb women’s performances in order to capture the inherent and inescapable feeling of ethnicity in a post-war space. I also discuss the difficulty of capturing this anxiety through empirical methods, navigating the discrepancy between Serb women’s narrative accounts of ethnic stigmatization compared to the apparently unproblematic flow of everyday social life. Through this discrepancy, I demonstrate how the embodied and ever-accumulating feeling of ethnic anxiety can conjure threats where there may be none, and how it can charge even the most (seemingly) mundane encounters.

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“…This awkward positionality shaped the research process in important and unanticipated ways; it sometimes limited my access to certain groups of people, spaces and information, while facilitating it in others. Simultaneously as I was negotiating these postcolonial intersectionalities of power (Faria and Mollett ), I remained attentive to my affective encounters with my interlocuters who lived everyday with confusion, anxiety and fear of violence yet to come (Schoenberger and Beban ). If we are to arrive at a deeper relational understanding of everyday life in the margins of the new enclosures, I suggest it is critical for researchers to take account of, and be accountable to, their material entanglements in the world they are researching, and the partiality of knowledge produced as a result (Barad ; Haraway ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing a Liminal Land Deal: The Biopolitics and Necropolitics of Gender

Chung

2020

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Over the past decade, there has been a surge in large‐scale land acquisitions around the world. Yet, increasing evidence suggests that many of the prominent land deals signed during the global land rush are struggling to materialise. This emergent pattern of liminality has important implications for understanding the everyday, contingent, and gendered processes of land deal governance and subject formation. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article examines the gendered governance of a “liminal” land deal in coastal Tanzania, through a case of the EcoEnergy Sugar Project. It shows how the project's prolonged delay has given rise, over time, to two contradistinctive sets of actors and mechanisms of control: biopolitical interventions of international development consultants focused on livelihood improvements, and necropolitical interventions of district paramilitary forces focused on surveillance and violence. While seemingly contradictory, I argue that both enactments of power fundamentally relied on and reproduced normative gender in rural Tanzania.

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“They Turn Us into Criminals”: Embodiments of Fear in Cambodian Land Grabbing

Cited by 37 publications

References 37 publications

From eviction to evicting: Rethinking the technologies, lives and power sustaining displacement

From eviction to evicting: Rethinking the technologies, lives and power sustaining displacement

“To me, you are not a Serb”: Ethnicity, ambiguity, and anxiety in post-war Sarajevo

Governing a Liminal Land Deal: The Biopolitics and Necropolitics of Gender

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