Land grabbing has transformed rural environments across the global South, generating resistance or political reactions “from below”. In authoritarian countries like Laos, where resource investments are coercively developed and insulated from political dissent, resistance appears absent at first g...
Miles, K.-L.
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Dwyer, M.B.
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[State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos]
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State spaces of resistance: industrial tree plantations and the struggle for land in Laos
State control of land plays a critical role in producing land dispossession throughout the Global South. In Myanmar, the state’s approach towards territorial expansion has driven the country’s system of land governance, resulting in widespread and systemic land grabbing. This article investigates...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Kenney-Lazar, M.
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Meinzen-Dick, R.
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[The contested terrain of land governance reform in Myanmar]
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The contested terrain of land governance reform in Myanmar
Following the National League for Democracy’s landslide victory in the 2015 national election, Myanmar embarked on a series of legal and political transitions. This paper highlights parallel processes alongside such transitions. Linking land governance with the ongoing peace processes, and taking...
Suhardiman, Diana
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Bright, J.
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Palmano, C.
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[The politics of legal pluralism in the shaping of spatial power in Myanmar’s land governance]
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The politics of legal pluralism in the shaping of spatial power in Myanmar’s land governance