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#12194. Controlled experiments: ethnographic notes on the intergenerational dynamics of aspirational migration and agrarian change in upland Laos
| July 2026 | publication date |
| Proposal available till | 15-05-2025 |
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| Anthropology; Sociology and Political Science; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Developmental and Educational Psychology; |
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Abstract:
This article provides ethnographic insights into the Southeast Asian peasantry’s engagements with agrarian change. It is based on the longstanding interest in the dynamics of socio-economic transformation and anthropology’s burgeoning focus on how future-oriented aspirations are produced, negotiated, and enacted under specific socio-political, material, and historical conditions. I show upland peasants on the cusp of agrarian transition engaging aspirational migration through ‘controlled experiments’: pioneering pursuits of betterment, crucially buttressed by multiple, locally specific factors. These factors include a still largely intact peasant natural economy, historically endowed intimacy with the modernizing state, and a precariously persistent ‘intergenerational contract’ in which youthful mobility and parental stability remain ambiguously yet irreducibly intertwined. This article discusses a community that is politically connected and relatively unscathed by the (transitory) detriments of commodification, enclosure, and dispossession. In sum, this article confirms that while striving for a better future is probably a basic aspect of the human condition, definitions and pursuits of such futures are contextually contingent, not least along generational lines.
Keywords:
agrarian change; aspirational migration; intergenerational dynamics; Laos; peasant household economics
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Abstract:
This article provides ethnographic insights into the Southeast Asian peasantry’s engagements with agrarian change. It is based on the longstanding interest in the dynamics of socio-economic transformation and anthropology’s burgeoning focus on how future-oriented aspirations are produced, negotiated, and enacted under specific socio-political, material, and historical conditions. I show upland peasants on the cusp of agrarian transition engaging aspirational migration through ‘controlled experiments’: pioneering pursuits of betterment, crucially buttressed by multiple, locally specific factors. These factors include a still largely intact peasant natural economy, historically endowed intimacy with the modernizing state, and a precariously persistent ‘intergenerational contract’ in which youthful mobility and parental stability remain ambiguously yet irreducibly intertwined. This article discusses a community that is politically connected and relatively unscathed by the (transitory) detriments of commodification, enclosure, and dispossession. In sum, this article confirms that while striving for a better future is probably a basic aspect of the human condition, definitions and pursuits of such futures are contextually contingent, not least along generational lines.
Keywords:
agrarian change; aspirational migration; intergenerational dynamics; Laos; peasant household economics
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