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'Join together, work together, for the common good - solidarity': village formation processes in the rural south of Laos
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posted on 2006-04-01, 00:00 authored by Holly HighThis article explores the concept of the solidary village in contemporary Laos. It argues that the "village" today is not a fixed, primordial entity, but a continually emergent formation resulting from numerous processes, including but not limited to modern state processes. The notion of "village" circulates in the ambiguous "common sense" pertaining to rural Laos, in the attitudes, expectations, representations, and regulated requirements of the rural, in what I term village formation projects. Case studies of "village formation projects" in one village in southern Laos illustrate not only the importance of the village concept, but also its indeterminacy and fluidity, and the ensuing difficulty of achieving the "solidarity" and cooperative donation required by poverty reduction policies.
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SOJOURN:journal of social issues in Southeast AsiaVolume
21Issue
1Pagination
22 - 45Publisher
Institute of Southeast Asian StudiesLocation
Pasir Panjang, SingaporeISSN
0217-9520eISSN
1793-2858Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2006, Institute of Southeast Asian StudiesUsage metrics
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