Jonathan Rigg

Managing risk and vulnerability in Asia: A (re)study from Thailand, 1982â83 and 2008

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2009

In the 1980s, rural settlements in the Northeast of Thailand were farming focused, and strategies... more In the 1980s, rural settlements in the Northeast of Thailand were farming focused, and strategies of living were structured around the need to secure subsistence in the face of a capricious environment and a weak developmental state. More than half of households in the region lived below the poverty line, and the immediate prospects for ‘development’ were not bright. Drawing on a 25-year longitudinal study of two villages in Mahasarakham, the paper describes and reflects on how risk and vulnerability have been re-shaped during a quarter of a century of profound economic and social change. From largely environmental and local, the pattern of risk and opportunity have become increasingly economic and non-local as external events wash across the shores of rural settlements like Ban Non Tae and Ban Tha Song Korn.

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Joining the Dots of Agrarian Change in Asia: A 25 Year View from Thailand

by Albert Salamanca and Jonathan Rigg

Following 77 households over 25 years, the paper traces agrarian change in two settlements in Nor... more Following 77 households over 25 years, the paper traces agrarian change in two settlements in Northeast Thailand. This is distilled into three processes: a delocalisation of living, a disembedding of households, and a dissociation of the village-community, seen in a geriatrification of farming, the re-working of livelihood footprints, the generational drift of non-farm work, and increasing complexity in household form. Policy interventions need to acknowledge the mixed and mobile nature of rural living, the split personality of households, people's hyrbrid identities, and the diversity of activities in the countryside. Crown

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Joining the Dots of Agrarian Change in Asia: A 25 Year View from Thailand

by Jonathan Rigg, Michael Parnwell, and Albert Salamanca

World Development, 2012

Following 77 households over 25 years, the paper traces agrarian change in two settlements in Nor... more Following 77 households over 25 years, the paper traces agrarian change in two settlements in Northeast Thailand. This is distilled into three processes: a delocalisation of living, a disembedding of households, and a dissociation of the village-community, seen in a geriatrification of farming, the re-working of livelihood footprints, the generational drift of non-farm work, and increasing complexity in household form. Policy interventions need to acknowledge the mixed and mobile nature of rural living, the split personality of households, people's hyrbrid identities, and the diversity of activities in the countryside. Crown

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AFPS and its institutional context

by Albert Salamanca and Jonathan Rigg

Institutions set the rights and rules of resource use, access and development among groups of peo... more Institutions set the rights and rules of resource use, access and development among groups of people, members of an organization or individuals in a community. Rights are actions that are authorized while rules refer to prescriptions that forbid, permit, or require on acts performed in relation to a right (Ostrom 1990). Thus, institutions are “instruments for interpreting and transforming information into knowledge”(Saleth and Dinar 2004: 24). Institutions could be either formal or informal. Formal institutions are those enacted by the ...

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13 Living at the margins

by Albert Salamanca and Jonathan Rigg

Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces, Sep 29, 2010

Contested spaces abound in cities in Southeast Asia due to the nature of interactions between spa... more Contested spaces abound in cities in Southeast Asia due to the nature of interactions between spaces, places and households. The nature of this contestation may be read in broad terms as the juxtaposition of agricultural and non-agricultural activities in the landscape captured by what McGee (2003, 1991, 1989) calls the desakota ('village'and 'town'in Bahasa Indonesia). This has resulted in mixed and intersecting livelihoods and patchy ecosystems especially around the urban fringe. Peri-urban aquatic food production ...

Joining the Dots of Agrarian Change in Asia: A 25 Year View from Thailand

by Michael Parnwell, Jonathan Rigg, and Albert Salamanca

Following 77 households over 25 years, the paper traces agrarian change in two settlements in Nor... more Following 77 households over 25 years, the paper traces agrarian change in two settlements in Northeast Thailand. This is distilled into three processes: a delocalisation of living, a disembedding of households, and a dissociation of the village-community, seen in a geriatrification of farming, the re-working of livelihood footprints, the generational drift of non-farm work, and increasing complexity in household form. Policy interventions need to acknowledge the mixed and mobile nature of rural living, the split personality of households, people's hyrbrid identities, and the diversity of activities in the countryside. Crown

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The Asian Tsunami, Academics and Academic Research

by Professor May Tan-Mullins, Jonathan Rigg, and Carl Grundy-Warr

Grounding a natural disaster: Thailand and the 2004 tsunami

by Professor May Tan-Mullins, Lisa Law, Jonathan Rigg, and Carl Grundy-Warr

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2008

Abstract: Drawing on field work in Southern Thailand undertaken in July 2005, the study illumina... more Abstract: Drawing on field work in Southern Thailand undertaken in July 2005, the study illuminates the complex and contingent way in which the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 affected communities, households and individuals. The paper problematises the indiscriminate/discriminate patterning of impact and recovery and also makes a case for a delocalised and transnational approach to understanding the impacts of the wave. Using the notion of ‘tsunami footprints’ and drawing on qualitative interviews, the paper proposes that impacts need to be seen in the context of the spatially dispersed networks of association that characterise the Thai space economy and Thai society. Drawing on work on poverty dynamics, the paper also explores three explanatory disjunctures in recovery transitions: the disjuncture between the pre-tsunami context and the post-tsunami situation; the disjuncture between structure and agency; and the disjuncture between the appearance of progressive and gradual change in societies and the lived reality of turbulence.

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