Bibliography
- Alam, Ashraful, and Donna Houston. 2020. “Rethinking Care as Alternate Infrastructure.” Cities 100: 102662. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102662.
- Amnesty International. 2007. “Hiding in the Jungle: Hmong under Threat.” Accessed 6 January 2020. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA260032007?open&of=ENG-LAO
- Asian Development Bank (ADB). 2008. Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Greater Mekong Subregion Louangphrabang Airport improvement Project Technical Assistance Consultant’s Report, Final Report. Manila, Philippines: ADB.
- Asian Development Bank (ADB). 2017. Meeting Asia’s Infrastructure Needs. Manila, Philippines: ADB.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). 2016. “2017 Business Plan and Budget Summary.” Accessed 7 November 2018. https://www.aiib.org/en/policies-strategies/_download/business-plan-2017/aiib-2017-business-plan-and-budget.pdf
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). 2018. “Our Work.” Accessed 7 November 2018. https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/our-work/index.html
- Alston, Philip. 2019. Statement by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights on His Visit to Lao PDR, 18-28 March 2019. Accessed 20 April, 2020. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24417&LangID=E
- Baird, Ian G., and Keith Barney. 2017. “The Political Ecology of Cross-Sectoral Cumulative Impacts: Modern Landscapes, Large Hydropower Dams and Industrial Tree Plantations in Laos and Cambodia.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 44 (4): 769–795. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2017.1289921.
- Baird, Ian G., and Bruce Shoemaker. 2007. “Unsettling Experiences: Internal Resettlement and International Aid Agencies in Laos.” Development and Change 38 (5): 865–888. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00437.x.
- Balcaite, Indre. 2016. “When ASEAN Comes: In Search of a People-Centred ASEAN Economic Community in Greater Mekong Borderscapes.” Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 31 (3): 880–921.
- Bertelsmann Stiftung (BTI). 2014. Laos Country Report. Gutersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung.
- Blake, David J. H., and Keith Barney. 2018. “Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a “Best Practice” Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 48 (5): 808–834. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2018.1482560.
- Collins, Patricia Hill. 2019. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). 2021. https://reconnectingasia.csis.org/map/
- Davies, Thom. 2019. “Slow Violence and Toxic Geographies: ‘Out of Sight’ to Whom?” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419841063.
- Delang, Claudio O., and Matthew Toro. 2011. “Hydropower-Induced Displacement and Resettlement in the Lao PDR.” South East Asia Research 19 (3): 567–594. doi:https://doi.org/10.5367/sear.2011.0056.
- Doig, Will. 2018. High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia. New York: Columbia Global Reports.
- Dotson, Kristie. 2011. “Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing.” Hypatia 26 (2): 236–257. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01177.x.
- Dwyer, Michael B. 2020. ““They Will Not Automatically Benefit”: The Politics of Infrastructure Development in Laos’s Northern Economic Corridor.” Political Geography 78: 102118. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102118.
- Emmott , Robin. 2018. “EU Unveils Asia Infrastructure Plan, Denies Rivalry with China.” September 20. Accessed 6 November 2018. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-asia/eu-unveils-asia-infrastructure-plan-denies-rivalry-with-china-idUSKCN1LZ1XF
- Enns, Charis. 2018. “Mobilizing Research on Africa’s Development Corridors.” Geoforum 88: 105–108. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.11.017.
- Evrard, Olivier, and Yves Goudineau. 2004. “Planned Resettlement, Unexpected Migrations and Cultural Trauma in Laos.” Development and Change 35 (5): 937–962. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2004.00387.x.
- Galtung, Johan. 1969. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” Journal of Peace Research 6 (3): 167–191. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/002234336900600301.
- Freedom House. 2020. Laos. https://freedomhouse.org/country/laos
- Government of Laos (GoL). 2016. “8th Five-Year National Socio-Economic Development Plan (2016-2020).” Vientiane: Ministry of Planning and Investment.
- Government of Laos (GoL). 2019. “2019 Statistical Report on Tourism.” Vientiane: Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, Tourism Development Department.
- Government of the Philippines. n.d. “Build Build Build: Philippine Infrastructure Transparency Portal.” Accessed 6 November 2018. http://www.build.gov.ph
- Hall, Derek, Philip Hirsch, and Tania Murray Li. 2011. Powers of Exclusion: land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaìi Press.
- High, Holly. 2009. “Dreaming beyond Borders: The Thai/Lao Borderlands and the Mobility of the Marginal.” In On the Borders of State Power: frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region, edited by Martin Gainsborough, 75–100. London: Routledge.
- Hodgdon, Benjamin. 2008. “The Political Culture of Logging and Development on the Periphery of Laos.” Kyoto Journal 69: 58–65.
- International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). 2012. Laos: An Overview of Human Rights Violations. Briefing Paper prepared for the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting Summit of Heads of State and Government (ASEM9), Vientiane, Laos. Accessed 6 January 2020. https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/mldh_fidh_briefing_paper_on_human_rights_in_laos_final_25102012-3.pdf
- Jaipragas, Bhavan. 2018. “Trump strikes a blow in US-China struggle with Build Act to contain Xi’s Belt and Road.” South China Morning Post. Accessed 9 March, 2020. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2169441/trump-strikes-blow-us-china-struggle-build-act-contain-xis
- Katus, Susanne, Diana Suhardiman, and Sonali Senaratna Sellamutu. 2016. “When Local Power Meets Hydropower: Reconceptualizing Resettlement along the Nam Gnouang River in Laos.” Geoforum 72: 6–15. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.03.007.
- Kenney-Lazar, Miles. 2012. “Plantation Rubber, Land Grabbing and Social-Property Transformation in Southern Laos.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 39 (3-4): 1017–1037. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2012.674942.
- Kenney-Lazar, Miles, and Noboru Ishikawa. 2019. “Mega-Plantations in Southeast Asia: Landscapes of Displacement.” Environment and Society 10 (1): 63–82. doi:https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2019.100105.
- Khanna, Parag. 2016. Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
- Lagerqvist, Yayoi Fujita, Woollacott Laura, Avakat Phasouysaingam, and Southida Souliyavong. 2014. “Resource Development and the Perpetuation of Poverty in Rural Laos.” Australian Geographer 45 (3): 407–417. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2014.930006.
- Lestrelin, Guillaume. 2011. “Rethinking State-Ethnic Minority Relations in Laos: Internal Resettlement, Land Reform and Counter-Territorialization.” Political Geography 30 (6): 311–319. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.06.005.
- Li, Tania Murray. 2018. “After the Land Grab: Infrastructural Violence and the “Mafia System” in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Plantation Zones.” Geoforum 96: 328–337. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.10.012.
- Lintner, Bertil. 2018. “Japan Offers ‘Quality’ Alternative to China’s BRI.” 18 October. Accessed 6 November 2019. http://www.atimes.com/article/japan-offers-quality-alternative-to-chinas-bri/.
- Marks, Danny, and Jun Zhang. 2019. “Circuits of Power: Environmental Injustice from Bangkok’s Shopping Malls to Laos’ Hydropower Dams.” Asia Pacific Viewpoint 60 (3): 296–309. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12242.
- Mawdsley, Emma. 2017. “Development Geography 1: Cooperation, Competition and Convergence between ‘North’ and ‘South.” Progress in Human Geography 41 (1): 108–117. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515601776.
- Mawdsley, Emma. 2018. “The ‘Southernisation’ of Development?” Asia Pacific Viewpoint 59 (2): 173–185. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12192.
- Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). 2009. “Hidden Behind Barbed Wire: Plight of Hmong Refugees Held in Detention Camp in Northern Thailand Ignored Amid Ongoing Deportations to Laos.” Accessed 6 January 2020. http://www.msf.org/en/article/hidden-behind-barbed-wire
- Milne, Sarah. 2015. “Cambodia’s Unofficial Regime of Extraction: Illicit Logging in the Shadow of Transnational Governance and Investment.” Critical Asian Studies 47 (2): 200–228. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2015.1041275.
- Morris, Scott. 2019. The Kunming-Vientiane Railway: The Economic, Procurement, Labor, and Safeguards Dimensions of a Chinese Belt and Road Project. Centre for Global Development Policy Paper 142, Centre for Global Development, Washington.
- Murray, Warwick E., and John Overton. 2016. “Retroliberalism and the New Aid Regime of the 2010s.” Progress in Development Studies 16 (3): 244–260. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1464993416641576.
- Neef, Andreas, and Jane Singer. 2015. “Development-Induced Displacement in Asia: Conflicts, Risks, and Resilience.” Development in Practice 25 (5): 601–611. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2015.1052374.
- New Development Bank. 2016. “New Development Bank’s General Strategy: 2017 – 2021.” Accessed 7 November 2018. https://www.ndb.int/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/NDB-Strategy-Final.pdf
- Ngaosrivathana, Pheuiphanh, and Florian Rock. 2007. Study on Expropriation and Compensation in Lao PDR. Vientiane: National Land Management Authority.
- Nixon, Rob. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard: Harvard University Press.
- OECD. 2018. “China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Global Trade, Investment and Finance Landscape.” OECD BUSINESS AND FINANCE OUTLOOK 2018. https://www.oecd.org/finance/Chinas-Belt-and-Road-Initiative-in-the-global-trade-investment-and-finance-landscape.pdf
- Pholsena, Vatthana, and Ruth Banomyong. 2006. Laos: From Buffer State to Crossroads. Bangkok: Silkworm Books.
- Radio Free Asia (RFA). 2018. “China’s Fast Track to Influence: Building a Railway in Laos.” Accessed 27 February 2020. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/special/laoschinarailway/
- Radio Free Asia (RFA). 2019a. “While Locals in Laos Still Reel from Belt and Road, President Offers Full Support.” Accessed 27 February 2020. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/laos-belt-and-road-04292019153702.html?searchterm:utf8:ustring=%20railway
- Radio Free Asia (RFA). 2019b. “Displaced Villagers in Laos Still Waiting for Railway Compensation.” Accessed 27 February 2020. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/lao-china-railway-compensation-delay-07162019170632.html
- Republic of Indonesia. 2011. “Masterplan for Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia Economic Development 2011-2015.” Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta.
- Rigg, Jonathan. 2016. Challenging Southeast Asian Development: The Shadows of Success. London: Routledge.
- Rodgers, Dennis, and Bruce O’Neill. 2012. “Infrastructural Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue.” Ethnography 13 (4): 401–412. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138111435738.
- Rogers, Sarah, and Brooke Wilmsen. 2020. “Towards a Critical Geography of Resettlement.” Progress in Human Geography 44 (2): 256–275. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518824659.
- Rosario, Teresita Cruz-Del, and Jonathan Rigg. 2019. “Living in an Age of Precarity in 21st Century Asia.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 49 (4): 517–527. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2019.1581832.
- Rowedder, Simon. 2020. “Railroading Land-Linked Laos: China’s Regional Profits, Laos’ Domestic Costs?” Eurasian Geography and Economics 61 (2): 152–161. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2019.1704813.
- Royal Government of Cambodia. 2014. “Cambodia National Strategic Development Plan 2014-2018.” Accessed 9 March 2020. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/–-asia/–-ro-bangkok/–-sro-bangkok/documents/genericdocument/wcms_364549.pdf
- SCMP Reporter. 2019. “Explained: Belt and Road Initiative.” Accessed 9 March 2020. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/explained/article/2187162/explained-belt-and-road-initiative
- Scott, James. 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Sims, Kearrin. 2015. “The Asian Development Bank and the Production of Poverty: Neoliberalism, Technocratic Modernization and Land Dispossession in the Greater Mekong Subregion.” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 36 (1): 112–126. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12093.
- Sims, Kearrin. 2017. “Gambling on the Future: Casino Enclaves, Development, and Poverty Alleviation in Laos.” Pacific Affairs 90 (4): 675–699. doi:https://doi.org/10.5509/2017904675.
- Sims, Kearrin. 2018. “More Growth, Less Freedom? Charting Development Pathways in Lao PDR.” In National Security, Statecentricity, and Governance in East Asia. Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia, edited by Brendan Howe, 127–149. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 1988. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” In Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea, edited by Rosalind Morris, 21–78. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Springer, Simon. 2015. Violent Neoliberalism: Development, Discourse, and Dispossession in Cambodia. London: Palgrave.
- Springer, Simon, and Philippe Le Billon. 2016. “Violence and Space: An Introduction to the Geographies of Violence.” Political Geography 52: 1–3. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.03.003.
- Stimson Mekong Infrastructure Tracker, supported by USAID and The Asia Foundation. Accessed 9 March 2020. https://www.stimson.org/2020/mekong-infrastructure-tracker-tool/
- Sturgeon, Janet C., Nicholas K. Menzies, Yayoi Fujita Lagerqvist, David Thomas, Benchaphun Ekasingh, Louis Lebel, Khamla Phanvilay, and Sithong Thongmanivong. 2013. “Enclosing Ethnic Minorities and Forests in the Golden Economic Quadrangle.” Development and Change 44 (1): 53–79. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12006.
- Vandergeest, Peter. 2003. “Land to Some Tillers: development-Induced Displacement in Laos.” International Social Science Journal 55 (175): 47–56. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2451.5501005.