Heritage and the Making of Political Legitimacy in Laos: The Past and Present of the Lao Nation

Phill Wilcox

doi:10.1017/9789048550715

Heritage and the Making of Political Legitimacy in Laos

The Past and Present of the Lao Nation

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Phill Wilcox

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: December 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9789048550715
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048550715

Subjects:: Legal History, Law
Series:: Asian Heritages

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The Lao People's Democratic Republic is nearly fifty years old, and one of the few surviving one-party socialist states. Nearly five decades on from its revolutionary birth, the Lao population continues to build futures in and around a political landscape that maintains socialist rhetoric on one hand and capitalist economics on the other. Contemporary Lao politics is marked by the use of cultural heritage as a source of political legitimacy. Researched through long term detailed ethnography in the former royal capital of Luang Prabang, itself a UNESCO-recognised World Heritage Site since 1995, this book takes a fresh look at issues of legitimacy, heritage and national identity for different members of the Lao population. It argues that the political system has become sufficiently embedded to avoid imminent risk of collapse but suggests that it is facing new challenges primarily in the form of rising Chinese influence in Laos.

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

List of Maps and Illustrations
pp 6-7

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
pp 8-8

Author’s Note
pp 9-10

Acknowledgements
pp 11-14

1 - Introduction – Heritage, State, and Politics
pp 15-54

2 - Making the Past (Dis)appear: Heritage as Legitimacy in (Re)creating Luang Prabang
pp 55-90

3 - Hmong (Forever) on the Margins: Crypto-Separatism and the Making of Ethnic Difference
pp 91-116

4 - One World: One Dream: Voices of Pessimism, Strategies of Pragmatism and Facing the Rise of China
pp 117-150

5 - Conclusion – Long Live the Revolution?
pp 151-174

Bibliography
pp 175-186

Index
pp 187-190

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