Governing Dispossession: Relational Land Grabbing in Laos

摘要: The government of (post)socialist Laos has conceded more than 1 million hectares land—5 percent the national territory—to resource investors, threatening rural community access to customary lands and forests. However, investors have not been able use all land granted them, their projects generated geographically uneven dispossession due local resistance. Based on twenty months ethnographic fieldwork, this article compares how materialized in eight villages targeted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation Chinese pulpwood southern Laos. I contribute nascent literature political contingencies showing extraeconomic forces expropriation are governed relationally. Developing Gramscian relational environmental governance framework, demonstrate such shaped social relations among internal state, capital, actors, leading either extension sol...