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

Jonathan Rigg, Albert Salamanca and Michael Parnwell

World Development, 2012, vol. 40, issue 7, 1469-1481

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Asia; Thailand; agrarian change; livelihoods; village and household transformations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.03.001

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