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Going for income in village Tibet: a longitudinal analysis of change and adaptation, 1997-2007 / Goldstein, Melvyn C; Childs, Geoff; Wangdui, Puchung

Childs, Geoff	Journal Article
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Publication	2008.
Summary/Abstract	Rural Tibet is in the throes of a major paradigm shift from a predominately subsistence agricultural economy to a new mixed economy in which non-farm income plays a dominant role. This paper examines this change, comparing longitudinal data collected through direct fieldwork in rural Tibet in 1997-98 and 2006-07

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China ; Tibet ; Modernization ; Rural Change ; Migrant Labor

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ID: 108322

Migration, agrarian transition, and rural change in Southeast A / Kelly, Philip

Kelly, Philip	Journal Article
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2011.

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Migration ; Southeast Asia ; Cultural Change ; Rural Change ; Agrarian ; Agrarian Transitions

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Thailand's last peasant / Dayley, Robert; Sattayanurak, Attachak

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Does Thailand still have peasants? Does it still have a peasant society? How dynamic are Thailand's chaona? To answer these questions we begin with an interview of a septuagenarian farmer who discusses rural change over his lifetime and provocatively claims he is ‘the last peasant’ of his village. We use this rural anecdote as a catalyst to highlight agrarian change in Thailand and to expose the hazards of employing static concepts to describe contemporary rural political economy. By analysing the use and meanings of the term ‘peasant’ and its Thai equivalents, we demonstrate how static concepts obscure Thailand's rural evolution and contribute to misleading assumptions, harmful agrarian myths, and extant political cleavage.

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Thailand ; Rural Change ; Rural Political Economy

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