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Porträttfoto Katherine Gough

Katherine Gough

Professor

Porträttfoto Katherine Gough

Reterritorialising rural handicrafts in Thailand and Vietnam : A view from the margins of the miracle

Författare

  • Katherine V. Gough
  • Jonathan Rigg

Summary, in English

This paper explores the changing role and place of handicrafts in contemporary rural development processes. Building on fieldwork conducted in four settlements in northern Thailand and Vietnam, we discuss how a traditional sector is being reshaped under the forces of globalisa- tion and what this means for the character of rural livelihoods. This empirical analysis permits us to reflect on wider areas of debate within development and economic geography. By examining the spatialities of production, we explore how the 'place' of handicrafts in the settlements is being reshaped.We show how, although handicraft production retains an image of being part of a traditional sector built around local skills and inputs, in reality the activities have become deterritorialised and are increasingly spatially dispersed. Nonetheless, handicraft production remains economically and socially embedded and is helping to sustain village economies both in situ and in distant locations.

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

169-186

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Environment and Planning A

Volym

44

Avvikelse

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Pion Ltd

Nyckelord

  • Economic geography
  • Handicrafts
  • Space
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0308-518X