Struggling against excuses: winning back land in Cambodia | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
décembre 2017
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
MLRF:2278
Pages: 
870-890
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Taylor & Francis

This paper focuses on one community in Cambodia that won back land from a large land deal by grabbing onto the rupture in property relations initiated by a one-year land titling campaign. I document the struggle between competing legibility and illegibility projects which I examine through two moments, one of the state choosing to see its population and their relations to territory, and another in which the state’s excuses for not recognizing smallholders’ claims began to falter. By centring the role of excuses, I show how state authority and property relations ruptured around the campaign and how traces of the campaign enabled citizens to claim the right to have rights.

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Schoenberger, Laura

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