Socializing Land: Contradictions of (Dis)possession in Laos
Dear all,
You are cordially invited to the second session of the FASS Brown Bag Seminar Series in Semester 2 of AY22/23. Dr Miles Kenney-Lazar (FASS Georgraphy) will be presenting on “Socializing Land: Plantations, Resistance, and (Dis)possession in Laos”.
Zoom registration: https://bit.ly/3XzXQJa
Socializing Land: Contradictions of (Dis)possession in Laos
Why are some peasant farmers dispossessed of their land while others defend their claims and access? This talk mobilizes the concept of socializing land to examine the complex, dynamic, and contradictory social relations of land that operate as a terrain of struggle in the expanding plantation frontier of southern Laos.
Miles Kenney-Lazar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at NUS. His work examines the political ecologies of plantation expansion and land access in Southeast Asia, especially in Laos and Myanmar. He is currently revising a book manuscript titled Socializing Land: Plantations, Resistance, and (Dis)possession in Laos.
If you have any queries, please email fassresearchevents@nus.edu.sg. We look forward to your attendance