Degraded forest, degraded land and the development of industrial tree plantations in Laos

摘要: The concepts of degraded forest (pa mai xout xom) and land (din seuam have been variously applied in official Lao government policy narratives law over the last couple decades. In this article I focus on land, relationship with industrial tree plantations, using two examples from southern Laos. argue that significant both facilitating obstructing development large-scale plantations different times spaces, thus significantly influencing access exclusion, as well spatialization plantations. provide a tentative genealogy regarding emergence these forestry Laos, briefly explain links between degradation ‘the rush’ presently affecting