Pacific Affairs is pleased to announce the publication of its latest Special Issue (vol. 97, no. 2, June 2024), a collection of seven papers under the theme, “In and Out of Plain Sight: Interrogating Power in the Mekong Riverscape,” and guest edited by Andrew Johnson and Akarath Soukhaphon.
ARTICLES
“Introduction: In and Out of Plain Sight: Interrogating Power in the Mekong Riverscape”
By Andrew Alan Johnson (Stockholm University) and Akarath Soukhaphon (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
“Fast Finance and the Political Economy of Catastrophic Dam Collapse in Lao PDR: The Case of Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy”
By Pon Souvannaseng (Bentley University)
“A Politics of Mobility and B/ordering in a Changing Riverscape in Cambodia”
By Ming Li Yong (East-West Center), Carl Grundy-Warr (National University of Singapore), and Shaun Lin (National University of Singapore)
“Squeezed Between Land and Water: Rupture, Frontier-Making, and Resource Conflicts at Cambodia's Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam”
By Sopheak Chann (Michigan State University), Sango Mahanty (Australian National University), and Katherine Chamberlin (Michigan State University)
“Silences of the Dam: The Intimate Geographies of Ethnic Lao Well-being on the Sesan River”
By Akarath Soukhaphon (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
“The Don Sahong Dam in Laos: Political Ecology, Infrastructure, and the Changing Spatialities of Impacts on Fish and People”
By Ian G. Baird (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Hidden Flows: Hydropower and the Rhythms of Development on the Mekong”
By Andrew Alan Johnson (Stockholm University)
BOOK REVIEWS
The issue also includes our generous number of reviews of recent books and documentary films on the Asia-Pacific region, all available full-text and free at our website above.
