Colonial Land Legacies: Questions and Insights from Southeast Asia.

Land Labour and Plantations
Written By Tania Li

2021. Conference keynote: International Symposium, Lusophone Land Legacies in Comparative Perspective.

Why are colonial land legacies important? What is potentially problematic about their persistence? Why should we be concerned about what Ann Stoler (2008, 2016) calls “imperial debris” or the “rot that remains” from colonial rule? Why, precisely, is it rotten?

Tania Li
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