Rural Schooling and Good Life in Late Socialist Laos: Articulations, sketches and moments of good time

Roy Huijsmans; Mr Piti

doi:10.1163/9789004528062_008

Rural Schooling and Good Life in Late Socialist Laos: Articulations, sketches and moments of good time

Roy Huijsmans, Mr Piti

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Abstract

Drawing on ethnographic research in northern Laos, this chapter analyses articulations of a good life in primary school textbook imagery and how this resonates with everyday life in rural upland communities. This is contrasted with children’s sketches of a good life found in the classrooms and ethnographic accounts of moments of ‘good time’ in the context of rural schooling. It is argued that these latter moments constitute brief instances of a good life in the present. Given the hierarchical power relations in which rural education is embedded, not all of these good times stay good for very long. This is reflective of the condition of late socialism in rural Laos.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Rural Life in Late Socialism
Subtitle of host publication	Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future
Editors	Phill Wilcox, Jonathan Rigg, Minh T.N. Nguyen
Publisher	Brill Publishers
Chapter	7
Pages	156-184
Number of pages	29
Volume	44
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-04-52806-2
ISBN (Print)	978-90-04-52805-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004528062_008
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023

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Series	Social Sciences in Asia
Volume	44
ISSN	1567-2794

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Acknowledgements
The research presented in this chapter was funded through the ESRC-DFID Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems (grant number: ES/ N01037X/1, project title ‘Education Systems, Aspiration and Learning in Remote, Rural Settings’). Further, we are grateful for the comments from fellow workshop participants on an initial version of the paper presented at the ZiF
Workshop ‘The Good Life in Late Socialist Asia’ (Bielefeld, 16–18 September 2019). Subsequent versions of the paper have greatly benefited from the excellent feedback from the book editors.

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Huijsmans, R & Piti, M 2023, Rural Schooling and Good Life in Late Socialist Laos: Articulations, sketches and moments of good time. in P Wilcox, J Rigg & MTN Nguyen (eds), Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future. vol. 44, Brill Publishers, Social Sciences in Asia, vol. 44, pp. 156-184. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004528062_008

Rural Schooling and Good Life in Late Socialist Laos: Articulations, sketches and moments of good time. / Huijsmans, Roy; Piti, Mr.
Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future. ed. / Phill Wilcox; Jonathan Rigg; Minh T.N. Nguyen. Vol. 44 Brill Publishers, 2023. p. 156-184 (Social Sciences in Asia, Vol. 44).

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