Description:
Borderlands are often described as frontier zones? characterised by
rebelliousness, lawlessness and/or an absence of laws? (Kristof 1959:
281). Anecdotes resonate with popular images of a remote underworld
(or perhaps outerworld?) where state authority is weak and lawlessness
prevails. In the upper Mekong borderlands of Thailand, Laos and Burma,
the imagery of borderland illegality persists both as spectre and lure, but
the substance of what happens there reveals a state and society in league.
Source/publisher:
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) (Newsletter 42)
Date of Publication:
2006-10-00
Date of entry:
2009-03-07
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
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Language:
English