Imagining the borderlands: Contending stories of a resource frontier in Muang Sing

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-69

  Lagerqvist, Yayoi Fujita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agrarian transformation; Borderland; Frontier; Laos; Muang Sing; Trans boundary connections

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BORDER REGION; ENTREPRENEUR; FRONTIER REGION; POVERTY; RURAL AREA; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL CHANGE;

LAOS; LUANG NAMTHA; MUANG SING;

EID: 84874859848     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12013     Document Type: Article

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