第70回研究会＜2015/6/26＞
Nathan Badenoch氏
Reorganizing Diversity: Rubber, roads and resettlement in northwestern Laos
第70回「東南アジアの社会と文化研究会」を下記の通り開催します。
今回は東南アジアの自然と農業研究会と共催でおこないます。
東南アジア研究所のNathan Badenoch氏をお招きし、自然と社会の多様性についてお話しいただきます。
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2015年6月26日（金）16:00～18:00（15：30開場）
京都大学大学院アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科
総合研究2号館4階大会議室（AA447）
（京都市左京区吉田本町京都大学本部構内 百万遍のすぐ近くです。）
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地図が二枚ありますが、下の方の地図（「本部構内」）です。
Nathan Badenoch 氏（京都大学東南アジア研究所特定准教授）
The natural and human landscapes of mainland Southeast Asia are undergoing tremendous transformations. In this talk I will discuss how biocultural diversity is being reorganized in northwestern Laos. The main drivers of change in this region are the spread of rubber, the upgrade of roads and the relocation of people. From the ecological perspective, the forest-fallow mosaic that has dominated the upland landscape is yielding to monocrop industrial agriculture. From the human perspective, diverse ethnic minorities that previously lived in small villages across the mountains are now being concentrated in rapidly-growing multi-ethnic villages along the roads. These developments are promoted in the name of market-oriented income generation and enhanced access to government services. Critical analysis of this model of development suggest increasing poverty and livelihood instability. There also is talk of a ‘cultural crisis’, although studies dedicated to cultural dynamics in these situations have been few and far-between. I will take language as one indicator of cultural change, and examine how the multilingualism that has characterized local society is being impacted by landscape and livelihood changes. In doing so, I hope to shine some new light on the linkages between natural and human diversity in local landscapes.
