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Item Annotated Bibliography of Cambodia and Cambodian Refugees.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1987) Marston, JohnItem How do the availability of fish and rice affect occupation and food security in the Lower Mekong Basin?(2011-09) Bouapao, LilaoThis study aims to contribute to our understanding of how rice and fish availability affect occupation and food security of people in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam. The study focuses on subsistence and commercial fishers and farmers. The data obtained for my research are from the first basin-wide survey conducted across the four countries using a common methodology and timing in 2009. Results of the study show that the extent of dependence of people on rice and fish availability for occupation, income, and food and their resilient capacities varies greatly between strata and across study sites. If both fish and rice decline at a common rate applicable to the whole LMB, cash income of at least one of four strata in each site will easily fall below the poverty line of $1.00 per capita per day. Seen from the perspective of food, all strata of all sites will be significantly affected if the availability of rice and fish decline. Altogether, fish and rice account for more than 81% of the total daily calorie intake. With uneven distribution of population by countries and varied social-ecological zones and livelihood activities, impacts of changes in the rice and fish availability will not distribute evenly. If changes occur throughout the Mekong, the number of people impacted will be highest in Vietnam, followed by Cambodia and Lao PDR. Thailand will be affected the least. Please see separate PDF files for the questionnaire in five languages.Item Making Law Matter: The Legal Mobilization of Subaltern Actors In Cambodia(2022-07) Tek, FarrahThe goal of this dissertation is to explain why and how subaltern actors engage in legal mobilization in an authoritarian country with a weak rule of law. Scholarship on authoritarian legality argue that citizen use the law under certain conditions—if the issue is apolitical, not involving powerful actors, or because the state purposefully redirects public grievances from the streets to legal institutions. I, however, argue that even on contentious issues involving the state, subaltern actors organize “from below” to develop innovative repertoires of legal mobilization tactics to build alternate forms of enforcement. My two case studies—a grassroots environmental group called the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) and garment factory workers and trade unions creatively employ complex legal mobilization repertoires. The PLCN use what is called “legal bricolage” by resourcefully and innovatively combining practices and beliefs from different normative orderings. Garment factory workers engage in what I call “contentious accountability” by mixing disruption with arbitration in going on strike and using a legal institution simultaneously. Through intensive fieldwork in Cambodia combining a multitude of different methods, this interdisciplinary social study of law illustrates how despite living in a repressive country that weaponizes the law against its citizens, subaltern actors engage in legal mobilization to build their own system of enforcement.