capitalising security in Laos's golden quadrangle Dwyer, Michael B. creator text xx 2014 continuing eng

print

Vol. 19, nro. 2 (2014), p. 377-405 Enclosure, dispossession and displacement loom large in current debates about the recent boom in transnational formland deals and about chinese agribusiness for export in particular. Often under-examined, however, are the ways that legacies of geopolitical conflict shape the inevitably uneven distribution of enclousure, dispossesion and displacement. This paper constructs a case of these micro-geopolitical legacies by examining a chinese rubber planting promotion project in northwestern Lao's emerging golden quadrangle development region. It argues that longstanding concerns about security inform the ways that local autorithies deploy eign land grabbing. Further, it shows that while the geographical aims of foreign agribusiness mesh with state-mediated resettlement efforts, these activities often precede current land deals rather than result from them. Chinese agribusiness in Lao's upland interior thus appears less as a driver of displacement than a means for attempting to secure in place a particular configuration of population and security AGRICULTURA GEOPOLITICA SEGURIDAD CHINA LAOS US.G/2/2014 020881 CL-SaANEPE 140923 20211029002057.0 050344