Paper Session:
1341 War, Insurgency and Governing Resource Landscapes in Southeast
Asia
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/17/07, from
Organizer(s):
Nancy Peluso - University of California
Chair(s):
Nancy Peluso - University of California
Abstract(s):
12:00 PM Author(s): *Maureen Sioh -
DePaul University
Abstract Title: Citizenscapes: Performing the Nation-State
12:15 PM Author(s):
*Ken MacLean, Post-Doctoral Fellow - Emory University
Abstract Title: Enclosure and the Emergence of Regulatory Authority Along
Burma's Riverine Systems
12:30 PM Author(s):
*David Biggs - University of California, Riverside
Abstract Title: Insurgency and the Water Landscape in Vietnam
12:45 PM Author(s): *Nancy Lee Peluso
- University of California
*Peter Vandergeest - York University
Abstract Title: "The Forests are Surrounding the Cities!"
Emergencies, Insurgencies and Forestry in Southeast Asia
1:00 PM Discussant: Philippe Le Billon
- University of British Columbia
Session Description: This panel is a comparative exploration of how insurgencies and state violence in Southeast Asia have reshaped landscapes, ecologies, livelihoods, and resource management practices. It is well known that the Southeast Asian insurgencies that began after World War II, and have continued to the present in some sites, have often been based in landscapes less conducive to central state monitoring and control, with rich resources and strong ethnic/nationalist components. Despite these connections, most literature on insurgency and counter-insurgency has not engaged the debates around resource access and management, resource rights, and the claims of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities. Limited exceptions are found in the literatures on the environmental impacts of war and the financing of political violence with resource revenues. We analyze these insurgencies as alternative state-building projects which engaged a variety of territorial controls. Counter-insurgency practices by states were meant to assert or re-assert and strengthen territorial control. Insurgencies and wars in Southeast Asia have been associated with huge expenditures to control peoples' activities in particular areas, generating territorial separations between forests or mines and agriculture. Effects on access to and control over resources, as well as the very definitions of what resources are have varied widely. Using a variety of theoretical perspectives, these papers discuss connections between war, militaries, and resource control, the territorial politics of ethnic (and religious) classification, psychological bases of warfare, and the ways diverse ecologies influence the territorial dimensions of war.
Paper Session:
3653 Diversifying Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/19/07, from
Organizer(s):
Philip Kelly - York University
Chair(s):
Philip Kelly - York University
Abstract(s):
5:00 PM Author(s): *Robin J Roth, PhD
- York University
Abstract Title: Constrained by Conservation? The Bounded Territories and
Rooted Networks of Livelihood Change in Northern Thailand
5:20 PM Author(s): *Melissa Marschke,
Ph.D. - York Center for Asian Research, York University
Abstract Title: Livelihood realities: an investigation into the disconnect
between resource policy and rural life within Cambodian fishing communities
5:40 PM Author(s): *Rebecca Elmhirst -
University of Brighton, UK
Abstract Title: Multi-local Livelihoods and Agrarian Transformation:
Reflections From a Longitudinal Study in Indonesia.
6:00 PM Author(s): *Claire
Tugault-Lafleur - McGill University
Abstract Title: Diversifying highland livelihoods: Ethnic minorities and
forest product use and trade in Northern Vietnam
6:20 PM Discussant: Nancy Peluso -
University of California
Discussant(s):
Nancy Peluso - University of California
Session Description: Changing rural livelihoods have been a staple of the agrarian literature > in Southeast Asia and elsewhere for some time. Traditionally, the focus > has been on differential access to land, capital, technology and > labour. These issues remain important, but the influences upon rural > livelihoods have expanded enormously both in scope and scale. Access to > resources such as education, personal networks, official licenses, > information and off-farm employment and incomes can all be significant > factors. Migration, domestic or international, can transform > livelihoods. Livelihood processs can also be significantly mediated by > ethnicity, gender, regional identity etc. In new spaces of development > such as agricultural frontiers, coastal areas and peri-urban zones, new > economic, political and social processes shape livelihood possibilities. > Diverse livelihood strategies have also become the subject of a range of > political mobilization efforts, rooted in class, ethnic or other > identities. In this session, we seek papers that address the changing > nature of rural livelihoods across Southeast Asia.
Panel Session:
4150 Critical Regional Pedagogies of Southeast Asia
is scheduled on Friday, 4/20/07, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Organizer(s):
Philip Kelly - York University
Chair(s):
Philip Kelly - York
University - CLICK FOR COURSE OUTLINE
Panelist(s):
James A. Tyner - Kent State University
Josh Lepawsky - Memorial University of Newfoundland – CLICK
FOR: Syllabus – Readings - Assignments
Yeong-Hyun Kim - Ohio University –
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Jim Glassman -
University Of British Columbia – CLICK FOR COURSE OUTLINE
Demian Hommel
Vida Vanchan
Christine Drake - Old Dominion University – CLICK FOR: 1) SE Asia Course Outline / 2) Asia Course Outline
Philip Hirsch - University of Sydney – CLICK FOR:
Course Outline – JGHE PAPER
Session Description: Regional courses remain a staple in many
undergraduate geography programmes, but approaches to 'teaching a region' vary
greatly. It is no secret that Southeast Asia is a regional construction of very
recent provenance and dubious legitimacy, and yet it frequently forms the basis
for synthetic regional courses in many programmes. This panel will seek to
explore innovative approaches to the teaching of Southeast Asia - for example,
ones that recognize it constructed-ness and yet assert its usefulness; ones
that acknowledge processes of globalization that transcend the region; and ones
that explore the problems of regional pedagogy in the light of postcolonial
scholarship. We are therefore seeking panel participants who are teaching
Southeast Asia in one form or another (as a stand-alone course, as part of a
world regions course, or with a specific theme developed in relation to
Southeast Asia). The panel will take the form of short presentations by each
panelist, followed by open discussion of innovative and critical approaches
Panel Session:
4250 Political Violence and Dissent in Southeast Asia
is scheduled on Friday, 4/20/07, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Organizer(s):
Philip Kelly - York University
Chair(s):
Philip Kelly - York University
Panelist(s):
James A. Tyner - Kent State University
Jim Glassman - University Of British Columbia
May Tan-Mullins
Demian Hommel
Vida Vanchan
Keat Gin Ooi - Universiti Sains Malaysia
Jean-François Bissonnette
Session Description: Geographers have tended to take a back
seat to political scientists and others when commentary on contemporary
political events is needed in the media. This is true now as much as ever in
relation to recent developments in various Southeast Asian contexts. Among many
other examples, Australian involvement in East Timor, the US military presence
in the Philippines, political killings of media and opposition figures in the
Philippines, a military coup in Thailand, suppressed protests against WTO
meetings in Singapore, and violent dislocation from resource access in various
locations across the region all demand a geographical analysis. In this panel,
we are seeking to bring together geographers who can provide well-informed
updates and opinions on present or recent instances of political violence and
dissent in Southeast Asia.
Paper Session:
4350 Rethinking Frontiers in Southeast Asia
is scheduled on Friday, 4/20/07, from 12:00 PM - 1:40 PM
Sponsorship(s): Asian Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Katherine Gough
Niels Fold
Chair(s):
Katherine Gough - Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen
Abstract(s):
12:00 PM Author(s): *Philip Hirsch,
Associate Professor - University of Sydney
Abstract Title: Revisiting frontiers as transitional spaces in Thailand
12:20 PM Author(s): *Keith D Barney,
Ph.D. Candidate - York University
Abstract Title: Laos and the Making of a Resource Frontier
12:40 PM Author(s): *Jytte Agergaard -
Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen
Abstract Title: Global-local interactions: Socio-economic and spatial
dynamics in Vietnamese frontiers
1:00 PM Author(s): Gina Koczberski -
Curtin Univeristy of tech
*George N. Curry - Curtin University of Tech
Abstract Title: Finding Common Ground: Securing Land in the Oil Palm
Frontier of Papua New Guinea
1:20 PM Author(s): *John F McCarthy,
PhD - Australian National University
Abstract Title: Contrasting Convergences: Smallholder engagement with the
Oil Palm Boom on the Frontier of Malaysian Borneo and of Outer Island
Indonesia.
Session Description: Frontiers are generally considered to be areas which are opened up for agricultural or mining activities by the clearing of virgin or semi-wild forests. The concept of frontier can be expanded though to include all transitional areas which are characterized by rapid changes in demographic structure, occupational possibilities and land use. These frontier regions are typically experiencing high immigration rates and changing livelihood opportunities including the establishment of new commercial activities. Hence, previously stagnating economic activities are being replaced by new activities, predominantly the production of export-oriented commodities, which are experiencing increasing demand on the global market. In this session we seek to revisit the concept of frontiers. Papers are invited which seek to understand the dynamics of transitional areas, especially with reference to Southeast Asia.