... a multiplicity of state, quasi-state and non-state actors in public, sometimes violent, contestations over the values attached to land. Their overt, discursive and contentious characteristics, the complex dynamics of protest and dispute mediation, and the manner by which disputants engage and disengage from...

... the Vietnamese state is drawn materially and discursively into conflicts between competing social groups. © 2014 by The Regents of the University of California 2014 Land conflicts dissent protests state Khmer Krom Vietnam R E S E A R C H E S S A Y S P H I L I P T A Y L O R Coercive Localization...

... political project configured and articulated itself, as state, and how this self-proclaimed "state" attempted to recruit local people by casting them in a new community, as nation. Making nation and state together produced enduring, and contested, spatial and communal boundaries structuring relations...