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Term: Oct. 2017 ～
The following 12 researchers are working at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University.
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:Global Type
:Tenure-track Type
● Miles KENNEY-LAZAR Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Human Geography
Research Topic: Governing the Global Land Grab: Confronting a New Threat to Rural Southeast Asia
Short Introduction
My research focuses on the politics of large-scale agro-industrial plantation development in mainland Southeast Asia, particularly Laos and Myanmar (Burma). I investigate how social and political relationships among state agencies, plantation companies, civil society organizations, and peasant communities shape the geographies of plantation expansion and resulting agrarian-environmental change. I study how indigenous peasant communities and individual households limit plantation establishment by resisting the expropriation of their customary lands, forests, and resources, especially in authoritarian political contexts. In previous research, I have shown how resistance to industrial tree plantations in Laos, where open protest and social movements are repressed, is aligned with the hegemonic power relations of the state, mobilizing dominant ideologies and political connections for peasant needs and interests. In my current work, I am extending my focus to Myanmar to conduct a comparative analysis of community control over land and resources.
Latest News
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Oct. 15, 2019
Hakubi Seminar Announcement (173th meeting)
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May. 17, 2018
Miles Kenney-Lazar et al published a paper titled “The Transboundary Displacement of Deforestation Under REDD+: Problematic Intersections Between The Trade of Forest-Risk Commodities and Land Grabbing in the Mekong Region” in Global Environmental Change, Vol 50, pp. 255-267 (May 2018).
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May. 17, 2018
Miles Kenney-Lazar et al published a paper titled “Greening Rubber? Political Ecologies of Plantation Sustainability in Laos and Myanmar” in Geoforum, Vol 92, pp. 96-105 (June 2018).
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May. 17, 2018
Miles Kenney-Lazar et al published a paper titled “State Spaces of Resistance: Industrial Tree Plantations and the Struggle for Land in Laos” in Antipode (23 March 2018).
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Nov. 29, 2017
Miles Kenney-Lazar published "Governing Dispossession: Relational Land Grabbing in Laos” in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers (AAAG, 14th, Nov. 2017, USA).
