Struggles for Life: Smallholder Farmers' Resistance and State Land Relations in Contemporary Cambodia
| Autor: | Chanrith Ngin, Il Oeur, Jean-Christophe Diepart |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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landed property
Widerstand Land access Sociology and Political Science lcsh:H53 050204 development studies media_common.quotation_subject conflict 0507 social and economic geography conflict management Resistance (psychoanalysis) lcsh:JQ1-6651 State formation Sociology & anthropology Social life resistance Politics Südostasien State (polity) Boden Political science 0502 economics and business Sociology of Developing Countries Developmental Sociology rural population media_common lcsh:Social sciences and state - Asia (Asian studies only) Kambodscha Entwicklungsländersoziologie Entwicklungssoziologie 05 social sciences lcsh:International relations Konflikt state land smallholder farmers land conflicts contingent rules Southeast Asia Eigentumsrecht land lcsh:Political institutions and public administration - Asia (Asian studies only) right of ownership Soziologie Anthropologie Konfliktregelung Political economy Political Science and International Relations Landbevölkerung Grundbesitz ddc:301 Cambodia 050703 geography lcsh:JZ2-6530 |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs Social movements in Cambodia Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Vol 38 (2019) |
| Popis: | Struggles revolving around questions of land access and control occupy a central place in the political and social life of contemporary Cambodia. In this study, we examine three cases of struggles against economic [State] land concessions. In a context of unequal power distribution among the actors involved, we elicit the place of the peasantry and its agency to resist and engage in negotiations with multi-level State authorities and market actors. We show how conflict management occurs through hybrid institutions to produce contingent rules that are specific outcomes of the negotiation between actors. Despite the shrinking space of contestation in Cambodia, these contingent rules reveal that opportunities for negotiation can be created for smallholder farmers to protect their land resources. Beyond the specificities of each particular conflict transformation trajectory, we also argue that State land management is a dynamic process that combines a calculus by authorities to retain social legitimacy and reproduce their sovereign power in respect of land. |
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