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E-book Upland Geopolitics : Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush

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A large large, hand-painted map greets visitors to the rubber-tree nursery just outside Vieng Phoukha, a rural district capital in northwest-ern Laos. Taking up much of the second-story wall of the nursery’s main building, its title is long and formal: “Land-use map of the 3,000-hectare rubber planting promotion project, Vieng Phoukha District, of Bolisat Ltd., Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China.”1 Despite its size and promi-nent display, however, the map itself is easy to miss. Aside from its thickly painted title, little else is vis i ble. Its thin black lines and faded yellow patches blend in with the weathered off-white background. The legend, lightly sketched out in the map’s bottom-right corner, has yet to be filled in.When my Lao colleagues and I first came across this map in 2007, it was barely legible. This was not simply because it was hard to see. Even when the image came into view, it was still impossible to read. Maps make sense because they contain symbols that tie or “index” them to the real world.2This map had no vis i ble indices—at least none that our team, a research del-e ga tion from Laos’s National Land Management Authority, could make out. The cartography itself gave few visual clues about what the various lines or patches might represent, and no obvious symbols for roads, rivers, vil-lages, or prominent landmarks linked its faintly drawn polygons to the land-scape around us. The missing legend didn’t help either. It was as if the whole thing had been drawn to announce the project’s presence without actually giving away anything about its operations.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

939.2 DWY u

Penerbit

USA : University of Washington Press., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

252 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780295750507

Klasifikasi

939.2

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text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

History of Ancient Asia Minor and to 640

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