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Managing risk and vulnerability in Asia: A (re)study from Thailand, 1982-83 and 2008 (2009)
Journal Article
Rigg, J., & Salamanca, A. (2009). Managing risk and vulnerability in Asia: A (re)study from Thailand, 1982-83 and 2008. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 50(3), 255-270. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8373.2009.01399.x

In the 1980s, rural settlements in the Northeast of Thailand were farming focused, and strategies of living were structured around the need to secure subsistence in the face of a capricious environment and a weak developmental state. More than half o... Read More about Managing risk and vulnerability in Asia: A (re)study from Thailand, 1982-83 and 2008.

A particular place? Laos and its incorporation into the development mainstream (2009)
Journal Article
Rigg, J. (2009). A particular place? Laos and its incorporation into the development mainstream. Environment and Planning A, 41(3), 703-721. https://doi.org/10.1068/a40260

Laos is a poor country in the world’s most economically vibrant region. I provide a historically embedded interpretation of Laos’ contemporary economic geography through three lenses: dualism, spatiality, and scale. I propose that, while the patterns... Read More about A particular place? Laos and its incorporation into the development mainstream.

Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the rural South (2006)
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Rigg, J. (2006). Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the rural South. World Development, 34(1), 180-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.07.015

Lives and livelihoods in the Rural South are becoming increasingly divorced from farming and, therefore, from the land. Patterns and associations of wealth and poverty have become more diffuse and diverse as non-farm opportunities have expanded and h... Read More about Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the rural South.

The Indian Ocean tsunami: socio-economic impacts in Thailand (2005)
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Rigg, J., Law, L., Tan-Mullins, M., & Grundy-Warr, C. (2005). The Indian Ocean tsunami: socio-economic impacts in Thailand. The Geographical Journal, 171(4), 374-379. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2005.00175_3.x

On the morning of 26 December 2004 large areas of coastal southern Thailand were transformed when a tsunami, generated by a powerful submarine earthquake in the Indian Ocean, swept ashore. Officially, there were 5395 confirmed deaths in Thailand with... Read More about The Indian Ocean tsunami: socio-economic impacts in Thailand.

Money, morals, and markets: evolving rural labour markets in Thailand and the Lao PDR (2004)
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Rigg, J., Bouahom, B., & Duangsavanh, L. (2004). Money, morals, and markets: evolving rural labour markets in Thailand and the Lao PDR. Environment and Planning A, 36(6), 983-998. https://doi.org/10.1068/a36133

The analysis and discussion of local labour markets as social outcomes of local structures and processes are now well established in the literature. However, much of the work has focused on the rich world and/or on modern activities. This paper exami... Read More about Money, morals, and markets: evolving rural labour markets in Thailand and the Lao PDR.

'Post-productivist' agricultural regimes and the South: discordant concepts? (2003)
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Wilson, G., & Rigg, J. (2003). 'Post-productivist' agricultural regimes and the South: discordant concepts?. Progress in Human Geography, 27(6), 681-707. https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132503ph450oa

In this paper we review current assumptions about post-productivist agricultural regimes - developed largely within a UK/advanced economies framework - and attempt to answer the question whether the concept of post-productivism can be used to underst... Read More about 'Post-productivist' agricultural regimes and the South: discordant concepts?.

Production, consumption and imagination in rural Thailand (2002)
Journal Article
Rigg, J., & Ritchie, M. (2002). Production, consumption and imagination in rural Thailand. Journal of Rural Studies, 18(4), 359-371. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0743-0167%2802%2900012-8

The transformation of rural areas from zones of production to arenas of consumption is well established in the literature focusing on the developed world. Less so the developing world. The paper opens by providing a critique of the construction of th... Read More about Production, consumption and imagination in rural Thailand.