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This book uses the case of Chinese development in Laos to ask what development is and why it happens as it does.
Development may seem self-evidently positive, but it is fraught with different agendas and seemingly competing visions of what so-called developing countries should become and how they should get there. As a country soon to graduate from Least Developed Country status as defined by the United Nations, Laos is a rich case study for considering the shifting drivers and priorities for development. This book considers how the rapid arrival of China has brought visions of development which converge and contest what has gone before, and how these inform individual and collective aspirations on the ground in Laos. The book starts by situating China's Belt and Road Initiative and development priorities, before going on to consider what the rise of China in Laos really means for agendas of change and for individual aspirations. The book concludes that China is changing ideas of future making and visions of what a developed society looks like, but not yet altering a long-standing preoccupation with the very notion of development itself. Based on many years of original on the ground research in Laos, this book moves beyond macro scholarship on China's influence to provide a nuanced picture of what global China means and what development, aspiration, and future building mean in a changing Laos.
It will be a thought-provoking read for researchers across the fields of global development and Asian studies.
Contents
Preface Map 0.1: Map of LaosMap 0.2: Map of the Laos-China Railway in Laos showing the route with the major stations Part One: The inevitability and allure of development Chapter 1: Introduction: development as (a) given Chapter 2: "Development is roads", infrastructures, desires, and debts Part Two: Land and (im)mobility Chapter 3: Development means change: ambivalent (and inevitable) encounters with China Chapter 4: Express train to the good life: all aboard the Laos-China Railway Part Three: Aspiring (with) China Chapter 5: Making aspirations move: future building in a changing Laos Chapter 6: "They cannot buy the land, but they will own the land": coming to terms with China in Laos Conclusion Chapter 7: Conclusion: future building: possibility, pragmatism, and price
