Disorientations: The Political Ecology of “Displacing” Floating Communities from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake

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dc.citation.volumeEarly View
dc.contributor.authorChann S
dc.contributor.authorBeban A
dc.contributor.authorFlaim A
dc.contributor.authorGorman T
dc.contributor.authorVouch LL
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-24T01:30:29Z
dc.date.available2024-06-24T01:30:29Z
dc.date.issued2024-02-13
dc.description.abstractIn this article, we extend a theory of disorientations to reveal how attempts to fix and control both water and people are disrupting once-fluid relationships between the Tonle Sap Lake and communities who have lived with-on the lake for generations. Using ethnographic and participatory mapping methods, we examine the socio-ecological dynamics that preceded and succeeded in the forced relocation of three floating communities in 2018. We argue that communities’ experiences challenge land-centric and event-centric understandings of displacement that pathologise fluid lifeways and fail to account for the materiality of water that has shaped floating villages’ multi-generational relationships with their wetland ecology. We develop the concept of disorientations to illuminate villagers’ experiences of relocation within a collapsing aquatic ecosystem—a collapse catalysed by state efforts to impose fixity on both hydrological flow and community mobility. The lens of disorientations invites displacement debates to consider materialities of place—whether pulsing water or living, shifting soils.
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dc.edition.edition2024
dc.format.pagination1-25
dc.identifier.citationChann S, Beban A, Flaim A, Gorman T, Vouch LL. (2024). Disorientations: The Political Ecology of “Displacing” Floating Communities from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake. Antipode. Early View. (pp. 1-25).
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/anti.13024
dc.identifier.eissn1467-8330
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn0066-4812
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69980
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWiley
dc.publisher.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.13024
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dc.rights(c) 2024 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectdisorientation
dc.subjectdisplacement
dc.subjectmateriality
dc.subjectwater
dc.subjectTonle Sap Lake
dc.subjectCambodia
dc.titleDisorientations: The Political Ecology of “Displacing” Floating Communities from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
dc.typeJournal article
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