Department of Development Studies
Dr James Alan Brown
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Department of Development Studies Teaching Fellow
- Department
- Department of Development Studies
- Qualifications
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BA (Exeter)
MA (Leeds)
PhD (SOAS) - Email address
- jb88@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Reworking Territory, Assembling Scale: Labour’s Agency in Lao Border Manufacturing
Research interests
My research focuses on the Savan-Seno Special Economic Zone in Savannakhet, Lao PDR. In my doctoral thesis ‘Reworking Territory, Assembling Scale: Labour’s Agency in Lao Border Manufacturing’ I analysed the role of workers’ agency in influencing the development of foreign-invested, light manufacturing industry in a border industrial enclave. I highlight the everyday spatial practices of workers and how these impact on wider processes of state territorialisation and regional economic integration initiatives. My current research interests focus on regionalisation, special economic zones, foreign investment, labour, and agrarian change especially in relation to the Greater Mekong Subregion programme in Lao PDR.
- Labour
- Development geography
- Agrarian change
- Special economic zones
- Southeast Asian regionalisation
- Laos and Thailand
