![]() | Border Landscapes Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Landscape assessment; Landscape assessment; Land use; Land use; Akha (Southeast Asian people); Akha (Southeast Asian people); Akha (Southeast Asian people); In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha (known as Hani in China) in contrasting political contexts. She shows how, over the last century, processes of state formation, construction of ethnic identity, and regional security concerns have contributed to very different outcomes for Akha and their forests in China and Thailand, with Chinese Akha functioning as citizens and grain producers, and Akha in Thailand being viewed as "non-Thai" forest destroyers. Janet C. Sturgeon is assistant professor of geography at Simon Fraser University. |
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