This book considers how the rapid arrival of China has brought visions of development which converge and contest what has gone before, and how these inform individual and collective aspirations on the ground in Laos.
This book considers how the rapid arrival of China has brought visions of development which converge and contest what has gone before, and how these inform individual and collective aspirations on the ground in Laos.
Phill Wilcox is Research Associate in Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents List of figures ix List of maps xi Preface - Development is the future xiii Acknowledgements xix Author's note xxi List of acronyms and abbreviations xxiii PART I The inevitability and allure of development 1 1 Development as (a) given 3 2 "Development is roads" - infrastructures, desires, and debts 30 PART II Land and (im)mobility 55 3 Development means change: ambivalent - and inevitable - encounters with China 57 4 Express train to the good life: all aboard the Laos¿ China Railway 79 PART III Aspiring (with) China 95 5 Making aspirations move: future building in a changing Laos 97 6 "They cannot buy the land, but they will own the land": coming to terms with China in Laos 116 PART IV Conclusion 137 7 Conclusion: future building: possibility, pragmatism, and price 139 Index 153
Contents List of figures ix List of maps xi Preface - Development is the future xiii Acknowledgements xix Author's note xxi List of acronyms and abbreviations xxiii PART I The inevitability and allure of development 1 1 Development as (a) given 3 2 "Development is roads" - infrastructures, desires, and debts 30 PART II Land and (im)mobility 55 3 Development means change: ambivalent - and inevitable - encounters with China 57 4 Express train to the good life: all aboard the Laos¿ China Railway 79 PART III Aspiring (with) China 95 5 Making aspirations move: future building in a changing Laos 97 6 "They cannot buy the land, but they will own the land": coming to terms with China in Laos 116 PART IV Conclusion 137 7 Conclusion: future building: possibility, pragmatism, and price 139 Index 153
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