Description: Das Projekt "F 3: Development intervention, state administration and local responses of ethnic minorities in upland Northern Thailand: role and dynamics of local, rural organizations and networks" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Hohenheim, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften des Agrarbereichs durchgeführt. Thailand is probably the only country that succeeded in fighting poppy production and trade, by implementing a 'stick and carrot' policy allowed by the economic take-off the country experienced from the 1960s onward and the 'anti-Communist rent' provided by the USA. This development was mainly launched by special bilateral projects and by the King (later Royal Foundation) and bypassed to a certain extent the existing state institutions. However, almost all these projects covering large areas in the highlands ended in the first half of the 1990s. What we observe, is the come-back of state institutions on the foreground. The holistic approach of these projects could nowadays give way to the come-back of a sectoral approach, bringing back all the contradictions State institutions carry along (among themselves and within each of them). Such an hypothesis is taken seriously by local populations and the emergence of networks of villages constitutes at least partly a response to this concern. These associations, which go across ethnic boundaries, aim at being a partner acknowledged by state agencies especially in the fields of social and economic development, land use and resource management. Furthermore, the degree of uncertainty is very high among villagers and their strategies is, at least partly guided by the lack of transparency of the process. Access to information thus becomes a crucial stake and actors able to monopolise it are in a better position to deal with this new context. The objective of the research is to analyse the social interface between development projects, state institutions and 'local society' in a specific context, from a socio-anthropological point of view, that is by applying anthropological concepts and methods to a traditionally non-ethnological object. This approach will be combined with a historical perspective aiming at analysing the different phases of highlands development policies, in order to grasp the roots of the current politics of development policy. A basic knowledge on local social structuration will be required, too. A first step will thus consist in assessing the development and extension approaches of the development projects that have been working (sometimes for quite a long time) in the area, as well as the roles and strategies of state agencies involved in the highlands development policy. The different points of view of the actors involved are to be explored, in terms of practices and logics as well as of perception and evaluation: discrepancies between objectives and implementation of a project, seen as failures by project workers or decision-makers, can result from active strategies of target groups, and thus epitomise the dynamics of the local society and not its so-called resistance or archaism. Furthermore, the triangle development project-state-local population is not made of three homogenous blocks. (abridged text)
Types:
SupportProgram
Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Ländliche Entwicklung ? Seen ? Lack ? Entwicklungspolitik ? Resistenz ? Skigebiet ? Thailand ? USA ? Behörde ? Demografischer Wandel ? Pflanzenwurzel ? Ackerrandstreifen ? Staatenvereinigung ? Sozialwissenschaft ? Ackerland ? Dorf ? Flächennutzung ? Handelsgewerbe ? Wirtschaftsentwicklung ? Zielgruppe ? Hochgebirge ? Informationsfreiheit ? Erwerbstätige Bevölkerung ? Landwirtschaft ? Arbeit ? Bevölkerung ? Politik ? Bewertung ? Staat ? Körperschaft ? Population ? Abdeckung ? Ressourcenbewirtschaftung ? Siedlungsentwicklung ? Muskelarbeit ? Ortsbestimmung ? Ortsüblichkeit ? Produktionspolitik ? Projektstudium ? Tatbestand ? Werkzeug ? Wirtschaftslenkung ? Eingriffsverwaltung ?
Region: Baden-Württemberg
Bounding box: 9° .. 9° x 48.5° .. 48.5°
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Deutsch
Time ranges: 2000-01-01 - 2003-12-31
Webseite zum Förderprojekt
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