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Joining the Dots of Agrarian Change in Asia: A 25 Year View from Thailand

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  • Rigg, Jonathan
  • Salamanca, Albert
  • Parnwell, Michael

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Following 77 households over 25 years, the paper traces agrarian change in two settlements in Northeast Thailand. This is distilled into three processes: a delocalisation of living, a disembedding of households, and a dissociation of the village-community, seen in a geriatrification of farming, the re-working of livelihood footprints, the generational drift of non-farm work, and increasing complexity in household form. Policy interventions need to acknowledge the mixed and mobile nature of rural living, the split personality of households, people’s hyrbrid identities, and the diversity of activities in the countryside.

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  • Rigg, Jonathan & Salamanca, Albert & Parnwell, Michael, 2012. "Joining the Dots of Agrarian Change in Asia: A 25 Year View from Thailand," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 40(7), pages 1469-1481.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:40:y:2012:i:7:p:1469-1481
    DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.03.001
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