ABSTRACT

This paper highlights how farmers in a northern Lao village transformed their customary land rights – in the face of incoherent overlapping state territorialization attempts – into a territorial strategy to secure their land tenure. By planting rubber, some villagers have engaged in a crop boom to lay claim to land which has recently been zoned for upland rice cultivation (and conservation) as part of a state-led land use planning initiative. We show how internal resettlement, ethnic division and the influx of commercial agriculture in the Lao uplands intersect in a novel land use planning process and predetermine the plan's actual significance.

摘要

本文重点介绍了老挝北部村庄的农民如何将他们的习惯土地权利——面对不一致的重叠国家领土化尝试——转变为确保土地使用权的领土战略。通过种植橡胶，一些村民参与了作物繁荣，以声称最近划为陆地水稻种植（和保护）的土地是国家主导的土地利用规划倡议的一部分。我们展示了老挝高地的内部移民、民族分裂和商业农业的涌入如何在一个新的土地利用规划过程中相互交叉，并预先确定了该计划的实际意义。