Grant Evans’ body of work on Laos consistently sought to understand how peasant society responded to political, social and economic change. As the Lao peasantry became ever more integrated both nationally and within the wider Southeast Asian region, and relations of market exchange came to dominate rural life, Evans maintained the need to reflect on Laos’ peasant roots to understand resulting pathways of agrarian change. This paper reconnects with this discussion in the contemporary Lao context, focusing on three dimensions of mobility: the widening spatial and sectoral ‘footprints’ of rural livelihoods; physical movement within and beyond rural settings in Laos; and reflections on issues of differentiation. We first track the political and policy changes that have most strongly influenced rural life since Evans’ early research on collectivisation, before exploring ways in which spatial integration, subsistence‐to‐commercial transition and migration have situated the remnants of Lao peasant society in a world of flows.

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老挝农民的迁移：老挝土地变化的途径

格兰特·埃文斯（Grant Evans）在老挝所做的工作一直致力于了解农民社会如何应对政治，社会和经济变化。随着老挝农民在全国范围内以及在更广泛的东南亚地区内的一体化程度越来越高，而市场交换关系逐渐占据农村生活的主导地位，埃文斯仍然需要反思老挝的农民根源，以了解由此产生的土地变化途径。本文在当代老挝语境中与这一讨论重新联系起来，重点关注流动性的三个维度：农村生计的空间和部门“足迹”的扩大；老挝农村地区内外的身体运动；关于差异化问题的思考。自埃文斯（Evans）对集体化的早期研究以来，我们首先追踪对农村生活影响最大的政治和政策变化，