'Politics of the Commons' Articulating Development and Strengthening Local Practices: Everyday Articulations of Power Narratives of a Lisu Community in Northern Thailand

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Rickson, Joseph
Conference:	Politics of the Commons: Articulating Development and Strengthening Local Practices
Location:	Chiang Mai, Thailand
Conf. Date:	July 11-14, 2003
Date:	2003
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1431
Sector:	Social Organization
Region:	East Asia
Subject(s):	IASC ethnicity narratives culture indigenous institutions
Abstract:	"This paper will explore the multiple dimensions of identity and marginalization read through life histories, lived experiences and everyday articulations of power in the context of the modern situation of the Lisu, an ethnic group of northern Thailand. It is through the analysis of identity and of every day lived experiences expressed through narrative that the role of internal and external factors in the contestation and construction of identity can be investigated. In order to understand these concepts we need to construct new methods and frameworks for examining cultural differences that consider the complexity of the culture, situating it not as a localized and static concept but as fluid, heterogeneous and dynamic."

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