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  title info:
    title: Border landscapes
    sub title: the politics of Akha land use in China and Thailand
  name:
    name part: Sturgeon, Janet C.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wau
    place:
      place term: US-WA
    place:
      place term: Seattle
    publisher: University of Washington Press
    date issued: c2005
    date issued: 2005
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (264 p.)
  abstract: In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha (known as Hani in China) in contrasting political contexts. She shows how, over the last century, processes of state formation, construction of ethnic identity, and regional security concerns have contributed to very different outcomes for Akha and their forests in China and Thailand, with Chinese Akha functioning as citizens and grain producers, and Akha in Thailand being viewed as "non-Thai" forest destroyers. The modern nation-state grapples with local power hierarchies on the periphery of the nation, with varied outcomes. Citizenship in China helps Akha better protect a fluid set of livelihood practices that confer benefits on them and their landscape. Denied such citizenship in Thailand, Akha are helpless when forests and other resources are ruthlessly claimed by the state. Drawing on current anthropological debates on the state in Southeast Asia and more generally on debates on property theory, states and minorities, and political ecology, Sturgeon shows how people live in a continuous state of negotiated boundaries - political, social, and ecological. This pioneering comparison of resource access and land use among historically related peoples in two nation-states will be welcomed by scholars of political ecology, environmental anthropology, ethnicity, and politics of state formation in East and Southeast Asia.
  table of contents: The production of border landscapes -- The production of marginal peoples and landscapes : resource access on the periphery -- The production of borders : sites for the accumulation and distribution of resources -- Small border chiefs and resource control, 1910 to 1997 -- Premodern border landscapes under border principalities -- Landscape plasticity versus landscapes of productivity and rule : Akha livelihoods under nation-states.
  note: Janet C. Sturgeon.
  note: Description based upon print version of record.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.
  note: English
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
    geographic code: a-th---
  subject:
    topic: Akha (Southeast Asian people)
    topic: Land tenure
  subject:
    topic: Akha (Southeast Asian people)
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Akha (Southeast Asian people)
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Land use
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Land use
    geographic: Thailand
  subject:
    topic: Landscape assessment
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Landscape assessment
    geographic: Thailand
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Ecology
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Ecology
    geographic: Thailand
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Boundaries
  subject:
    geographic: Thailand
    topic: Boundaries
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Thailand
    topic: Politics and government
  classification: DS528.2.K37 S78 2005
  classification: 306.3/64/09513509152
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Culture, place, and nature
  identifier: 9780295801735
  identifier: 0295801735
  identifier: 2005016162
  record info:
    record content source: MiAaPQ
    record creation date: 050603
    record change date: 20240418050458.0
    record identifier: 99370753867906441