京都大学 白眉センター

   Over the past two decades, the government of Laos has pursued an ambitious policy of economic development referred to as “Turning Land into Capital”. Mirroring global trends of land grabbing, the policy includes various forms of land commodification but is epitomized by the granting of long-term, large-scale land concessions to foreign enterprises for agribusiness, mining, hydropower, and infrastructure projects. Having granted 1.1 million hectares, or five percent of the national territory, government land concessions hinge on the category of “state land” that can be leased to private capital. While plantation development is broadly associated with economic growth in Laos, its effects on rural development, agrarian livelihoods, and the environment are mixed and depend on the political-economic forms through which plantations are established. Large-scale, mono-culture plantations developed by agribusinesses have led to the displacement of farmers from their lands, polluted soils and streams, cleared forests, and provided little economic compensation or employment in return. Mobilizing ethnographic research conducted in Southern Laos between 2013 and 2015, this presentation examines how land is governed in a country that is transitioning from a socialist to market economy. It reflects on the emerging politics of land and plantations as well as potential future paths of economic development in Laos.

オープニング・トーク
『 Minerals in space 』

• 講演者： 瀧川 晶 特定助教（理学研究科）
• 日時：2019年10月29日（火） 16:30-16:50
• 場所：白眉センター（学術研究支援棟 地下1階大会議室1、2）
• 使用言語：英語
• 発表形式：クローズド（京大関係者のみ）

要旨

One of the building blocks of our solar system is minerals formed around dying stars more than 4.6 billion years ago. Analysis of ancient minerals in meteorites and observations of minerals newly occurring around stars would tell us how such minerals formed around stars. In this short talk, I present our recent study on mineral formation in space.