Seminars

Connecting with the specialisation in land issues as part of the MA in Social Sciences (Development Studies) at Chiang Mai University, RCSD (the Regional Centre for Social Science and Sustainable Development) and the Mekong Land Research Forum have instigated a series of land-related seminars. These have focussed on mainland Southeast Asia but also look further afield.

The seminars have resulted in briefing notes and videos, which can be accessed through the titles below:

• Problems for the plantations: Challenges for large-scale land concessions in Laos and Cambodia (seminar video, June 2021)

• Migration and Women’s Land Tenure Security in the Greater Mekong Sub-region: Case studies from Thailand, Lao PDR and Myanmar (book launch, May 2021)

• Land and Labour in the Karen Hills of Burma: Cosmology and value in the study of agrarian change (seminar video, January 2021)

• Agrarian Transition in Vietnam and Thailand: Lessons for Other Southeast Asia Countries (seminar video, January 2020)

• State of Land in the Mekong Region: Book Launch and Seminar (seminar video, August 2019)

• Responsible Large-Scale Agricultural Acquisitions: framing an overview for the Mekong Region (seminar video, January 2018)

• Regional Approaches to Land Justice and Food Sovereignty (seminar video, November 2017)

• Land in the Mekong Region: Revisiting concepts and contexts for engaged scholarship (seminar video, August 2017)

• Diversity in Community Land Titling: Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia (seminar report, February 2017)