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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 423–430.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 altitude frontiers history Southeast Asia James C. Scott Zomia It is difficult to expound in any pithy fashion on the imprint that James C. Scott's work has had on writing history in the orbit of Asia. Where to start? From The Moral Economy of the Peasant all...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 439–445.
Published: 01 May 2021
... pounding ever since, I hope to good effect. There is little doubt in my mind that in the last few decades my analysis of “Zomia” makes less sense than it did, say, in 1960. Three processes have, in my view, been responsible. The first is the mass movement, forced and voluntary, of lowland majority...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1081–1084.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Scott's 2009 book on highlands “Zomia,” The Art of Not Being Governed . 5 Eschewing discussion of Scott's complex historical argument about state-building as a process of annexation, “enclosure,” and resource extraction, Tenzin Jinba conflates it with 1990s postmodern theories of the “creative...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1164–1165.
Published: 01 November 2016
... considers the upland region or “Zomia” as a non-state space. The most insightful aspect of Jonsson's critique is his analysis of Scott's rhetoric. Deploying Hayden White, Jonsson illuminates how Scott's narration is in fact embedded in a typical form of anarchist historiography, which, in White's words...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 389–390.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in China and India. Eric Tagliacozzo, considering Scott's contributions to history as a discipline, focuses on the importance of Zomia, a reorienting approach that rested upon, and inspired, attention to space, people, commodities, and cultural, as well as political norms, as intrinsic to how...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 259–261.
Published: 01 February 2017
...-lowland relations, and the creative failure of political projects (Chinese, Vietnamese, French, Lao) that aimed to control or refashion Hmong communities and individuals. Lee connects older Hmong studies with the most recent work, ultimately moving past the preoccupations of the Zomia heuristic to bring...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 837–838.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of the far beyond. By switching seamlessly between these two perspectives, Zatsepine captures the myriad connections in a zone that is best described as the Zomia of Northeast Asia. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters between China...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 210–211.
Published: 01 February 2016
... by this anthology, especially how researchers face difficult ethical quandaries. Michaud draws on his extensive experience in several countries to provide an insightful political and social comparison. Alluding to James Scott's use of the term “Zomia” to describe this upland region, Michaud shows how ethnic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 730–732.
Published: 01 August 2024
... as constituted through three main macroecological zones: Central Asia, Chinese Zomia, and China proper. In establishing the groundwork, Harrell is as attentive to cultural and institutional buffers, such as households, village communities, and common-pool resource management, as he is to ecological buffers, like...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 577–600.
Published: 01 August 2019
... Himalaya Jubbal Mahasu state formation Uttarakhand Zomia In an insightful article, Arjun Guneratne ( 1998 ) demonstrated the important role of state policies in the creation of collective identities in modern South Asia through an examination of Tharu mobilization in Nepal. Guneratne opened...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 43–67.
Published: 01 February 2015
... debt to Scott for exactly the kind of provocation that has forced others to take up new connected histories between Southeast, South, East, and Central Asia. See Leif Jonsson's review and Victor Lieberman's review in a special issue of the Journal of Global History devoted to Zomia studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 407–413.
Published: 01 May 2021
... borderlands serve as liminal spaces and contact zones and the importance of the enclosure of commons as a tool for state control (Southeast Asia's mountainous zone known as Zomia is described as being “the last great enclosure”). 15 Such enclosures were one way to render legible the wild riot of chaotic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 369–389.
Published: 01 May 2015
... as similarly situated “borderland” regions around the globe. Many to whom the Regulation and its Kenyan counterpart applied had much in common with the inhabitants of “Zomia”—upland Southeast Asia—recently discussed by James Scott ( 2009 ). 1 However, the experiences of the frontier inhabitants with state...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 293–315.
Published: 01 May 2021
... treating the Patkai as part of a wider trans-Asian mountainous region, falling off the map because it does not fit current-day geopolitical imaginaries: Zomia (Scott 2009 ; van Schendel 2002 ). India and Burma's purported divide thus ran against the grain of a fluid, connected, and dynamic human...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 347–369.
Published: 07 April 2010
... to that offered by James C. Scott in The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Scott offers a mirror to Bayly and Harper's Calcutta-to-Singapore crescent in the form of Zomia, a term he borrows from Willem van Schendel to designate the high-altitude spaces...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1083–1105.
Published: 01 November 2011
... as a whole and within the wider setting of Burma/Myanmar. In his recent treatise on Zomia, the upland massif of mainland Southeast Asia identified as the hill country populated by people who continue to evade and resist the lowland state, James Scott ( 2009 ) devotes his final chapter to a discussion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 895–917.
Published: 01 November 2012
... large urban settings (Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Rangoon, etc.) that have increasingly served as the contexts for anthropological and other scholarly writing on the region (and its diaspora). Limitations of space preclude consideration of highland locales such as those in Zomia (Scott 2009 ). 2...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 907–928.
Published: 01 November 2017
... mountains, as James Scott ( 2009 ) says, and we should add that the infrastructures of globalization do not like to as well. Yet the highland space of Zomia that he theorizes as a black hole in a world otherwise suffused by states is demonstrably an organized landscape of mobile, state-like monastic orders...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 963–985.
Published: 01 November 2017
... was not historically integrated into lowland state-building projects. It had a distinct tradition of autonomy (Zutshi 2015 ). Yet, as a relatively recent polity, it also lacked the cultural cohesion that characterized other upland areas, such as “Zomia,” the highland zone of Southeast Asia that encapsulated...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 367–390.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the highlands “Zomia” discussed by Willem van Schendel ( 2005 ) and James Scott ( 2009 ). By the end of the seventeenth century, a new political actor entered the Mekong Delta: the Vietnamese Nguyễn lords. The Nguyễn had expanded southwards to Cambodian Prey Nokor (Saigon), and in the eighteenth...
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