The spirits are crying : dispossessing land and possessing bodies in rural Cambodia

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
This article examines land dispossession and body possession in rural Cambodia. First, it demonstrates that land spirits continue as members of political patronage chains at both the state and the local level. Second, that the non-capitalist logics of spirit negotiations both challenged and legitimized large-scale land acquisition projects. It concludes that the spirit shaped contemporary capital-ist expansion in ways that call for a critical examination of the ontological certainty that all land is designed for human production and consumption.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Antipode, issn : 0066-4812, 2014, vol. 46, n°. 3, p. 593-610, nombre de pages : 18, Références bibliographiques : 5 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, Oxford, Blackwell