Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region

• Published in: Mountain Research and Development Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 314 - 315
• Main Author: Sadan, Mandy
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Institute of Geography, University of Bern Hallerstrasse 10, CH–3012 Bern, Switzerland The International Mountain Society 01-08-2010; International Mountain Society
• Subjects: Geopolitics; Globalization; Mountain Media; MountainMedia; Vietnam; Cambodia; Thailand; Laos
• ISSN: 0276-4741; 1994-7151
• DOI: 10.1659/mrd.mm072

Part II covers a range of contexts from education and literacy (Scott O'Brien, Judith Pine), to a very dense sociological discussion of network analysis (Nathan Badenoch), to discussions of the fluid nature of historical representations (Ma Jianxiong), to the shifting role of Theravadan Buddhism and its relations with popular culture (Roger Casas and Wasan Panyagaew). [...]this also goes back to the main difficulty with the book mentioned previously: that it needs a much stronger editorial voice and a much stronger introduction to drawout the relevance of its geopolitical model, to explore what facets of nationalism and globalization are under discussion and thus what we can drawfrom all these case studies at a theoretical level.