Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist
imaginaries of ordering 'unruly waters and humans' have become cornerstones of hydraulic …

This progress report surveys recent work in human geography on the resource-state nexus.
This choice reflects several contemporary trends in the governance of land, water and …

In this paper, we review and synthesize the growing sociology-informed literature on
organizational memory studies, which focuses on collective memory as a social construction …

Over the last decade, shifting strategies of capital accumulation have deepened the
integration of land and associated primary commodities into circuits of investment. More than …

This article develops a framework for conceptualising authoritarian governance and rule in
the Lao People's Democratic Republic. After introducing the national and academic context …

The government of (post) socialist Laos has conceded more than 1 million hectares of land—
5 percent of the national territory—to resource investors, threatening rural community access …

Over the last decade considerable research has been conducted on the development and
the impacts of large-scale economic land concessions for plantations in Laos and …

Mainstream portrayals of Chinese overseas land investments tend to treat Chinese capital
as monolithic, synonymous with the Chinese state, and extracting resources from other …

Land grabbing has transformed rural environments across the global South, generating
resistance or political reactions “from below”. In authoritarian countries like Laos, where …

Over the last decade, there have been considerable concerns raised regarding the social
and environmental impacts of large-scale land concessions for plantation development in …