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Article
Political Economy of Fishing Villages: A Case Study in the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
Author(s)
Mak Sithirith
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DOI:10.17265/2162-5263/2016.06.005
Affiliation(s)
Department of Natural Resource Management and Development, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh 12101, Cambodia
ABSTRACT
The Tonle Sap Lake is home to three
types of communities: land-based, water-based and land-water based communities,
whose livelihoods are dependent on Lake’s resources. This paper examines how fishing
communities in the Tonle Sap Lake make their living in the context of declined resources,
increased competition between fishers, the resources politics and the increased
trades around the Lake. The paper concludes that in the old day, communities around
the lake were related to one another through
bartering rice and fish. However, at present, as resources declining, these communities compete
over resources, and in doing so, they build
relationship and connection with powerful elites including officials, fish traders and the fishing operators,
who could protect them in fishing. As a consequence, fishers are trapped in the webs of vicious
cycle of poverty, conflicts, corruption and patronage system and exploited and sucked in
these webs.
KEYWORDS
Communities, livelihoods, market economy, bartering, resource decline, competition, fish trader.
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