Liquid Labourscape: Ad Hoc Experimentation in a Chinese Special Economic Zone in Laos
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2018-04
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Diana, Antonella
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ANU Press
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Chinese-established Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Laos have been criticised as being sites of neoliberal exception, sustained by a Chinese logic of self-entrepreneurship and selfdetermination—or a soft version of colonialera extraterritoriality. This essay argues that such areas are, in fact, a frontier space of post-socialist ad hoc experimentation, within which the Lao state haphazardly tests new socioeconomic and governing mechanisms under authoritarian rule in order to produce revenue and perpetuate its power over Lao citizens and territory.
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Gilded Age: Made in China Yearbook 2017
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