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Micro-Geopolitics: Capitalising Security in Laos's Golden Quadrangle

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Enclosure, dispossession and displacement loom large in current debates about the recent boom in transnational farmland deals, and about Chinese agribusiness for export in particular. Often under-examined, however, are the ways that legacies of geopolitical conflict shape the inevitably uneven distribution of enclosure, dispossession and displacement. This paper constructs a case of these ‘micro-geopolitical' legacies by examining a Chinese rubber planting ‘promotion' project in northwestern Laos's emerging ‘Golden Quadrangle' development region. It argues that longstanding concerns about security inform the ways that local authorities deploy investment projects that are otherwise seen as examples of ‘foreign' land grabbing. Further, it shows that while the geographical aims of foreign agribusiness mesh with state-mediated resettlement efforts (a darker spin on the narrative of ‘win-win' cooperation), these activities often precede current land deals rather than result from them. Chinese agribusiness in Laos's upland interior thus appears less as a driver of displacement than a means for attempting to secure in place a particular (if precarious) configuration of population and security.

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2013.780033
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    Année de publication

    2014

    Auteurs

    Dwyer, M. B.

    Langue

    English

    Mots clés

    agribusiness, land management, land policy, investment

    Géographique

    Lao People's Democratic Republic

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