Miles Kenney-Lazar
@mklaz.bsky.social
political ecologist, human geographer at the university of melbourne (https://shorturl.at/SG30C)
Hot off the Press: Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025) (https://shorturl.at/GxHC4)
Hot off the Press: Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025) (https://shorturl.at/GxHC4)
Precisely! That didn't seem to occur to them. "Damn journalists..."
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Precisely! That didn't seem to occur to them. "Damn journalists..."
I was at a conference where someone working in carbon offsets begrudgingly referred to it as the 'guardianization' of the industry 😅
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I was at a conference where someone working in carbon offsets begrudgingly referred to it as the 'guardianization' of the industry 😅
Thanks, Charlie!
September 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Thanks, Charlie!
Hard copies of the book are now available from the UHP website. E-book versions can be found elsewhere online. A paperback version will be available next year at a lower price. Please do request that your library purchases a copy. And get in touch for seminars, guest lectures, podcasts, etc. 🙂
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September 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hard copies of the book are now available from the UHP website. E-book versions can be found elsewhere online. A paperback version will be available next year at a lower price. Please do request that your library purchases a copy. And get in touch for seminars, guest lectures, podcasts, etc. 🙂
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I approach land as a web of social relationships that entangle peasant farmers, state officials, civil society groups, and plantation capitalists. The book addresses how and why ties to land are socialized in different orientations, particularly for capital versus the peasantry.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I approach land as a web of social relationships that entangle peasant farmers, state officials, civil society groups, and plantation capitalists. The book addresses how and why ties to land are socialized in different orientations, particularly for capital versus the peasantry.
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The book examines the politically contested development of Chinese and Vietnamese pulpwood and rubber plantations on the lands of Indigenous Brou people in Southern Laos. It is based on in-depth ethnographic research during a land rush facilitated by the Lao government.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The book examines the politically contested development of Chinese and Vietnamese pulpwood and rubber plantations on the lands of Indigenous Brou people in Southern Laos. It is based on in-depth ethnographic research during a land rush facilitated by the Lao government.
2/4
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