TAEC TALKS | Concrete Aspirations in Northern Laos by Dr. Rosalie Stolz
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ค. 2022
- How are concrete buildings transforming the uplands of northern Laos? How does the shift represent the aspirations of Khmu speakers?
Concrete is on the rise and cement, the 'world’s most used material, after water’ (Archambault 2018), is leaving imprints on the built landscape around the world. Associated with modernity and aspirations (Forty 2016), concrete is prevalent in transformations of houses and the built landscape world-wide and also in the uplands of northern Laos, where it increasingly replaces bamboo and timber houses.
In this talk, Dr Stolz sketches the move to concrete based on her ongoing, long-term research among and with Khmu speakers in northwestern Laos. She specifically focuses on how aspirations feed into choosing concrete as a new building material, how concrete impacts on sociality and in how far appropriating concrete can be regarded as innovative agency of upland pioneers.
Dr Rosalie Stolz is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Anthropology at Heidelberg University. In her ethnographic research, focused on Southeast Asia (and Laos in particular), she specialises in the topics of houses, kinship, sociality and socio-economic change. As well as having published on kinship, spirits and houses in Social Analysis, Ethnos and HAU among others, she is co-editor of the special issue on 'Upland Pioneers' in the journal Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (together with Oliver Tappe, 2021) and of Being a Parent in the Field: Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork (2020, Transcript). She is author of Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos (2021, NIAS Press).
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This webinar was recorded on 16 June 2022.
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