Liste complètes des publications

Vatthana PHOLSENA
CNRS, en détachement à l'Université nationale de Singapour
PUBLICATIONS
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Ouvrages
LAOS. Un pays en mutation, Paris: Editions Belin-La documentation Française, 2011.
Post-war Laos: The Politics of Culture, History and Identity, Singapore, New York: Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies, Cornell University Press, 2006.
Le Laos au XXI° siècle: Les défis de l’intégration régionale, Bangkok : IRASEC, 2004, coauthored with Ruth Banomyong. Translated and updated edition: Laos. From buffer-state to
crossroads?, Chiang Mai: Mekong Press, 2006.
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Direction d’ouvrages ou de numéros spéciaux de revues
Interactions with a Violent Past. Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and
Vietnam, co-edited with Oliver Tappe, Singapore: NUS Press, 2013.
Laos. Sociétés et pouvoirs, co-edited with Vanina Bouté, Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2012.
“The Experience of War: Four Sino-Indochinese Perspectives”, in European Journal of East Asian
Studies, co-edited with Christopher E. Goscha, Vol. 9(2), 2010.
“Politics of History and National Identity in Contemporary Laos”, in South-East Asia Research, coedited with Bruce M. Lockhart, Vol. 14(3), 2006.
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Articles de recherche dans revues internationales avec comité de lecture et dans
ouvrages de recherche
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Dans des revues internationales avec comité de lecture
“The (Transformative) Impacts of War and Revolution in a border region in Southeastern Laos
(1961-1975)”, War & Society, Vol. 31(2), 2012, pp. 163–83.
“Life under bombing in Southeastern Laos (1964-1973). Through the Accounts of Survivors in
Sepon”, European Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 9(2), 2010, pp. 267-290.
“Nommer pour contrôler au Laos, de l’Etat colonial au régime communiste”, Critique
Internationale, 45, 2009, pp. 59-76.
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“Highlanders on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Representations and Narratives”, Critical Asian Studies,
Vol. 40(3), 2008, pp. 445-474.
“The Early Years of the Lao Revolution (1945-49): Between History, Myth and Experience”,
South-East Asia Research, Vol. 14(3), November 2006, pp. 403-430.
« The Changing Historiographies of Laos: a Focus on the Early Period », Journal of Southeast
Asian Studies, Vol. 35 (2), 2004, pp. 235-259.
« Nation/Representation: Ethnic Classification and Mapping Nationhood in Contemporary Laos »,
Asian Ethnicity, Vol.3 (2), 2002, pp.175-197.
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Dans des ouvrages de recherche
“There is more to roads: Modernity, Memory and Roads in Hướng Hoá -Sepon area between
Central Vietnam and Southern Laos”, in Transnational Dynamics and Territorial Redefinitions in
Southeast Asia: the Greater Mekong Subregion and Malacca Strait Economic Corridors
(provisional title), Nathalie Fau, Sirivanh Khonthapane and Christian Taillard (eds.), Singapore:
ISEAS, 2014, pp. 377-396.
“ 'Minority' Women and the Revolution in the Highlands of Laos : Two Narratives”, in Women in
Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements, Susan Blackburn and Helen Ting (eds.), Singapore: NUS
Press, 2013, pp. 198-225.
“A Social Reading of a Post-Conflict Landscape: Route 9 in Southern Laos”, in Interactions with a
Violent Past. Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, co-edited with
Oliver Tappe, Singapore: NUS Press, 2013, pp. 157-185.
“Une génération de patriotes. L'éducation révolutionnaire du Laos au Nord Viêt Nam”,
Communisme 2013, “Vietnam, de l'insurrection à la dictature 1930-2012”, Special Issue
coordinated by Christopher Gocha, Paris: Vendémiaire, 2013, pp. 230-258.
“La production d’hommes et de femmes socialistes nouveaux : Expériences de l’éducation
communiste au Laos révolutionnaire”, in Laos. Sociétés et pouvoirs, co-edited with Vanina Bouté,
Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2012, pp. 45-67.
“Shifting Visions of the Past: Ethnic Minorities and the ‘Struggle for National Independence’ in
Laos”, in Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia, Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon
(eds.), Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, pp. 83-105.
“In the Line of Fire: The Revolution in the Hinterlands of Indo-China (1957-1961)”, in L’échec de
la paix ? L’Indochine entre les deux accords de Genève (1954-1962), Christopher Goscha and
Karine Laplante (eds.), Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2010, pp. 341-359.
“Entre passé vécu et passé réécrit : les débuts de la révolution au Sud-Laos (1945-1949)”, in
Recherches nouvelles sur le Laos, Yves Goudineau and Michel Lorrillard (eds.), Paris: Ecole
française d’extrême-orient (EFEO), Études thématiques n° 18, 2008, pp. 621-638.
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“A Liberal Model of Minority Rights for an Illiberal Multi-Ethnic State? The Case of the Lao
PDR”, Asian Minorities and Western Liberalism, in Will Kymlicka and Baogang He (eds.), Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 80-109.
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Articles dans des revues sans comités de lecture, articles de synthèse et contribution à
des ouvrages de synthèse
“LAOS. Risques et gains d'une plus grande intégration régionale” (co-authored with Martin
Rathie), L’Asie du Sud-Est 2013, Jérémy Jammes and François Robinne (eds.), Bangkok: IRASEC,
2013.
“LAOS. L’année du renouvellement (partiel) des élites politiques” (co-authored with Martin
Rathie), L’Asie du Sud-Est 2012, Jérémy Jammes and Benoît de Tréglodé (eds.), Bangkok:
IRASEC, 2012, pp. 171-188.
“U.S. rapprochement with Laos and Cambodia: A Response”, in “Special Focus: America Reengages Southeast Asia”, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 32(3), 2010, pp 460-466.
“Laos in 2006”, Regional Outlook: Southeast Asia 2006-2007, Russell H. K. Heng and Rahul Sen
(eds.), Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006.
“Laos. “Towards subregional integration”: 10 years on”, Southeast Asian Affairs 2005, Singapore:
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005, pp. 173-188.
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Autres travaux
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Notices
« Laos », in Images économiques du monde, Paris : Armand Colin, éditions 2008, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012, 2013.
« Laos », in The Britannica Book of the Year. An Annual update to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
éditions 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
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Rapports, documents de travail
Study of movements and social change along Road N. 9, across the Lao-Vietnamese borders, avec
Duong Bich Hanh, Final Narrative Report (rapport final), SEASREP, 2008.
Inclusion of Minorities in Public Life in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, Groupe de travail sur les
minorités de la Sous-Commission pour la promotion et la protection des Droits de l’Homme Bureau
des Nations Unies du Haut Commissariat pour les Droits de l’Homme, Genève, février 2003.
The Dilemmas between Development and Cultural Diversity: The Case of The Lao PDR, Groupe de
travail sur les minorités de la Sous-Commission pour la promotion et la protection des Droits de
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l’Homme Bureau des Nations Unies du Haut Commissariat pour les Droits de l’Homme, Genève,
octobre 2002.
“Ethnic Minorities, Land Allocation and Shifting Cultivation”, in Policy Study on Ethnic Minority
Issues in Rural Development, Bureau international du travail (dir.), Genève, 2000, pp. 85-113.
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Comptes rendus d’ouvrages
Sarah Turner (ed.). RED STAMPS AND GOLD STARS: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist
Asia. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013, in Pacific Affairs, à paraître.
Vanina Bouté, En miroir du pouvoir. Les Phounoy du Nord Laos : ethnogenèse et dynamiques
d’intégration, Paris, École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2011, in The Journal of Lao Studies, 3(1),
Octobre 2012.
Laurent Césari, Les grandes puissances et le Laos, 1954-1964, Artois Presse Université, collection
Histoire, Arras, 2007, in Lettre de l’Afrase, no. 73, Hiver 2008, pp. 24-25.
Boike Rehbein, Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos, London and New York: Routledge,
2007, in Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 30(2), 2008, p. 343-345.
Odd Arne Westad et Sophie Quinn-Judge (eds.), The Third Indochina War; Conflict between
China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-79, New York : Routledge, 2006, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-,
Land- en Volkenkunde, vol. 163(4), 2007, pp. 595-7.
Jonathan Rigg, Living with transition in Laos: Market integration in Southeast Asia, New York :
Routledge, 2005, in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 38(1), 2007, pp. 175-7.
Arthur J. Dommen, The Indochinese experience of the French and the Americans; Nationalism and
Communism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2001, in
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Vol 161, No. 4, 2005, pp. 550-551.
Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles Keyes (eds.), Cultural Crisis and Social Memory. Modernity and
Identity in Thailand and Laos, Routledge Curzon : London, New York, 2002, in Asian Journal of
Social Sciences, 33(2), 2004, pp. 546-549.
Mayoury Ngaosrivathana and Kennon Breazeale (dir.), Breaking New Ground in Lao History.
Essays on the Seventh to Twentieth Centuries, Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2002, in Journal of
Southeast Asian Studies, 35(1), 2004, pp. 175-177.
Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles Keyes (eds.), Cultural Crisis and Social Memory. Modernity and
Identity in Thailand and Laos, Routledge Curzon : London, New York, 2002, in Asian Journal of
Social Sciences, 33(2), 2004, pp. 546-549.
Mayoury Ngaosrivathana and Kennon Breazeale (dir.), Breaking New Ground in Lao History.
Essays on the Seventh to Twentieth Centuries, Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2002, in Journal of
Southeast Asian Studies, 35(1), 2004, pp. 175-177.
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