Post-war territories projects

Description – This long-term project emerged from my work in Battambang with the Provincial Department of Land Management. While traveling widely across the province, I was impressed by the scope and rapidity of agrarian changes that have been taking place since the Khmer Rouge re-integration policy of the late nineties. My interest in these post-war territories led me to study land use change and natural resource management. I then looked at the modernisation of land tenure in the province through land titling, land concessions or environmental zoning (post-doc project with Agro Paris Tech and CTFD – Technical Committee on Land Tenure and Development). Later, I examined the role of mobility and migration in socio-spatial transformations of the region (post-doc project with the University of Bordeaux and the Centre for Khmer Studies). I now study other dimensions of these territories such as land conflicts and the demining of explosive remnants from the war, among other topics