Kenney-Lazar Miles Richard
mklazar cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
部門・職位
グローバル生存基盤研究部門 連携助教
専門
Geography
研究分野 / キーワード
Governing Land Grabbing in Southeast Asia
研究概要
Governing Land Grabbing in Southeast Asia |
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This research project investigates the phenomenon of global land grabbing and how it is expressed across Southeast Asia. Coercive, non-transparent, and unjust land investments are leading to negative social and environmental impacts across Southeast Asia. Farmers have been dispossessed of their lands and livelihoods, forests have been cleared, and rural environments have been polluted as a result of land investments, especially for developing agro-industrial plantations and special economic zones. This project examines how the social and environmental impacts of land investments authoritarian countries of Southeast Asia are governed. It focuses in particular on the frontier economies of Laos and Myanmar (Burma), which have liberalized economically, opening to foreign investment in land and natural resources, yet have retained authoritarian political structures that repress democratic dissent, albeit in different ways in each country. In both countries, industrial plantations have been developed in a top-down manner since the 1990s, generating deforestation and the displacement of smallholder farmers from their lands. The study aims to generate a concrete understanding of the relations between the governing systems of authoritarian countries under political-economic transition and local-level agrarian and environmental transformations, with applications to other countries in Southeast Asia and the developing world. |
外部資金獲得(日本学術振興会・科学研究補助金)
種別 | テーマ | 期間 | 代表/分担 |
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若手研究 | The Governance of Industrial Agricultural Plantations in Authoritarian Southeast Asia | 2018 – 2020 | 代表 |