New Mandala

The Vientiane Scooter Club recently conducted its annual rally from Laos to Vietnam, a journey which saw many of its members rediscover their origins. A group of urban middle class Lao nationals of Vietnamese and Chinese descent, the club members are driven by a desire to find their own authentic place in Lao society.
The club [...]

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In my previous post I discussed the importance of localism in relation to what I call the “rural constitution.” I want to emphasise a key statement from that post as the point seems to have got a bit lost in some of the discussion:
In brief, localism provides one flexible framework for political decision making, but [...]

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