Organizer: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University

Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL

Description:

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a book talk by Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Kenney-Lazar’s book investigates the development of Chinese and Vietnamese pulpwood and rubber plantations on the lands of ethnic minority Brou people in eastern Savannakhet of southern Laos.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, the University of Melbourne. His research examines the political ecologies of ongoing plantation expansion, especially in relation to land dispossession, agrarian change, and forest governance.

Registration:

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