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Siripaphanh, Bounthieng. "Luang Prabang et son art." Paris 7, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA070020.
Full textThe objective of this thesis is to compare muang prabang's architectural and religious art to that of other areas of laos, as well as to that of its neighbours (burma, thailand, calbodia and china), in order to stress its specificity and originality. This work is composed of two volumes. The first volume is reserved for a general presentation of the geography and history of laos and luang prabang (in its historical, religious and architectural context), followed by a detailed study of luang prabang's temples (their history, their general characters) and the decorative art of these buddhist buildings. The volume closes with a comparison between luang prabang's art and the art of the other areas of laos, and with a further comparison between that art and the art of neighbouring countries (burma, thailand, cambodia and china). The second volume is constitued of drawing and plates, and photographs of the sutided monuments, either no longer extant or still on existence
Källén, Anna. "And through flows the river : archaeology and the pasts of Lao Pako /." Uppsala : Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-4676.
Full textSoysouvanh, Boualinh. "Richesse patrimoniale et culturelle de Champassak, moteur du développement économique de la ville de Paksé." Perpignan, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PERP0771.
Full textPakse is the capital of Champassak, a rich province of a historical and cultural inheritance; it is the administrative center and the first southern city of Laos. It starts its revolution, after that of Louang Phrabang and Vientiane in the Thirties; it is the second secondary town after Savannakhet. It is located at the confluence of Sedone and Mekong at 100m altitude in the medium of a horizontal plain with slightly undulated. Pakse with its Champassak province represent a unit authentic, proud of its history and faithful to its traditions, which knew to change without losing its soul nor its charm, in an always welcoming City. The assets of Champassak are real but with double edge. A prospect only productivist and based on seeking for the profit, is likely to destroy these assets and to generate many social problems. Taking into account its cultural situation, starting from its pre-colonial, and colonial history, of the physical and real situation of Mekong river, the study wants to show that the patrimonial, cultural and landscape richness of the province of Champassak can become the engine of the economic development of Pakse city. And once that we will have shown this possibility, we will propose methods of the technical and legal actions formalized for the action plan, which aims to stimulate agriculture, tourism and the economic activities by using the technique of the sustainable development
Prakoonheang, Kevin. "Political ideologies and development in the Lao People's Democratic Republic since 1975 /." View thesis View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030506.124709/index.html.
Full textA thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Honours), September, 2001. Bibliography : leaves 296-309.
Charaby, Nadja. "Die laotisch-vietnamesischen Beziehungen : Kontinuität und Wandel." Berlin Logos-Verl, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2900755&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
Full textBouté, Vanina. "En miroir du pouvoir : Les Phounoy du Nord Laos: ethnogenèse et dynamiques d'intégration." Paris, EPHE, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005EPHE5057.
Full textIntegration of « ethnic minorities » living in the mountainous fringe of the country of the Lao Popular Democratic Republic’s Government. Usually occidentals perceive governmental action as changing and denaturating societies. This thesis is about one of these societies which suffered new regime implementation full-force, and which, therefore, would be now described as “laocized”. Seeking roots and trying to discover mechanisms being at work in process of social changes among Phounoy lead us to a synchronic and diachronic approach, done through three topics: socio-political organization, religious structures and relation to the territory. The study shows that, beyond different changes affecting Phounoy society, this society is driven by a constant: it perpetuates itself in its relation to dominant powers. Also we show how a society can perpetuate itself in “inconstancy”. Phounoy adoption of norms and values of Lü, then of Lao people in a second time is the condition of a continuous ethno genesis. Phounoy were and still are society of change that has to be approached differently that the ways South-East Asian mountaineers are usually perceived ; meaning not as prisoners of an atemporal tradition. Finally, the aim of this study is to take a fresh look a t the mountainous minorities of South-East Asia, by taking into account the historical and socio-political context of these populations
Prakoonheang, Kevin. "Political ideologies and development in the Lao people's democratic republic since 1975." Thesis, View thesis View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/823.
Full textInsisiengmay, Aphisayadeth. "Savannakhet : carrefour économique, enjeu de développement urbain de la région centre du Laos." Perpignan, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PERP0770.
Full textKaysone Phomvihane, capital of the province of Savannakhet is the secondary town of a landlocked country not having an access to the sea and located in the region of South-East of Asia: Laos. It has by its localization with the center of the country a major asset owing to the fact that it constitutes a true crossroads between Vietnam and Thaïland. Research on this city will bring the diagnosis on the forms, process of the urbanization in the duration, like the policies,the strategies and the stakes of urban development, while being interested particularly in the various actors and the legal, economic and institutional executives which govern their interventions. This research will certainly contribute to the mobilization of the intellectual, material and financial forces to lead and guide the future urban development of Kaysone Phomvihane, contemporary crossroads economic to preserve its identity original and being able to benefit from the experiment of the other capitals of the region
Punya, Supitcha. "Restructuring Domestic Institutions: Democratization and Development in Laos." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/20594.
Full textThe research titled “Restructuring Domestic Institutions: Democratization and Development in Laos” aims to analyze how international development norms, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), have shaped Laos’ domestic institutions and development policy. It also aims to investigate the influence of international development norms on Lao state power, as well as its capacity to achieve development goals. The research results show that: First, the development partners support the SDGs in Laos through international development assistance to the Lao government in economic development, environmental sustainability, social inclusion and good governance, all of which have helped shape Lao domestic institutions and development policy to meet international standards. However, the development partners cannot curtail the political power of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (the Party) or the Lao government in manipulating the SDGs to serve a political purpose. Second, the Party is able to maintain its power in domestic politics and control over Lao society. Second, the Party is able to maintain its power in domestic politics and control over Lao society. These include blending Marxist-Leninist and national ideologies, highlighting development achievements and suppressing the revolutionary potential. Therefore, the political structure in Laos retains the Party’s power in an institution overlapping between the Party member, the Lao government, the National Assembly and the People’s Court without the citizen’s participation. Third, even though the development partners seek to enhance the Lao state’s capacity to achieve the development goals, the Lao government has encountered difficulties in financial management, human resources, and institutional capacities.
Prakoonheang, Kevin, University of western Sydney, and of Arts Education and Social Sciences College. "Political ideologies and development in the Lao people's democratic republic since 1975." THESIS_CAESS_HUM_Prakoonheang_K.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/823.
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Mariani, Léo. "Lien social et place de l'individu dans la société lao contemporaine." Paris 5, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA05H105.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to understand the transformations undergone by power and social relations in contemporary Lao society. Laos is a choice field of investigation for these issues, because of the major political shift of 1975, when the Buddhist monarchy was replaced by a communist regime, which upset a well established symbolic order and further weakened an already little developed economy. After more than twenty years of isolationist policy, however, the government of Laos chose to promote market economy. In this context, the new urban elites are engaged in frantic social competition in order to legitimize their status. Using as its starting point the wedding receptions, which are vital events of Lao social life and the places par excellence of the representation of power and its holders, this thesis illustrates the changes brought about by the transition from a mode of legitimization of authority based on descent to a mode of clan-oriented political working. The increasingly asserted emergence of a desire for distinction is part of the major transformations observable during fieldwork. By privileging the point of view of "the relational individual" in the social construction, this work finally proposes a relational typology liable, on the one hand, to contribute to a synthesis of emergent social dynamics and, on the other hand, to lead to a "minimal model of the subject" allowing to foresee the ways along which an individual, as an interacting person, will act efficiently or not. For this purpose, special attention is focused on the study of relational emic mechanisms such as the piep (self-esteem), the kiet (honorability, worthiness) and the "face" (na)
Vézina, Maude. "Lit de feu et la dépression post-partum chez les femmes lao." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33609.
Full textProblematic: What is the association between the traditional hot bed practice and postpartum depression among Lao women? Considering that the impact of postpartum depression can affect the woman, the newborn and the family, this study aims to contribute to the knowledge of this condition. To do so, the study explores the therapeutic role of a traditional ritual, still practiced by more than the majority of women in Lao PDR. Methodology: This cross-sectional study aims to explore the relationship between postpartum depression and the hot bed practice. 105 women were interviewed at Mahosot Central Hospital in Vientiane (Lao PDR) using two questionnaires. Results: 13.33% of women had significant depressive symptoms and 90.48% of women practiced the hot bed. The analyzes suggest that social support, unwanted pregnancy and the history of depression during pregnancy have a significant association with postnatal depression. The multivariate model, which interacts with these three variables, explains 22.5% of the variance of the dependent variable (p-value of 0.0003). Due to a lack of variability in the data obtained, it is impossible to study the association between the two main variables (hot bed practice and postnatal depression). Conclusion: Although the results obtained indicate that the social support mobilized by the hot bed contributes positively to the psychological health of new mothers, it is impossible to confirm the protective effect of the practice on postnatal depression. To answer such a hypothesis, further studies exploring the components of the practice should be encouraged. Keywords: postpartum depression; traditional practices; hot bed; Lao PDR; culture; social support; mental Health
Tappe, Oliver. "Geschichte, Nationsbildung und Legitimationspolitik in Laos : Untersuchungen zur laotischen nationalen Historiographie und Ikonographie /." Berlin : Lit, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990448932/04.
Full textDoré, Amphay. "Contribution ethno-historique à la connaissance de la culture Louang-Phrabanaise." Paris 5, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA05H129.
Full textThe thesis consists in two parts respectively devoted to "geography and economical networks" and to "networks and history". The first part deals with physical and human geography, waterways, thoroughfares and markets. It focusses on the peculiarities of natural environment, especially on provisions in excess which man can immediately make workable, the connections between ethnics facing one another and which have favored lao who conquered valleys, then the economical foundations of state, the whole of economical intercourse and the general outline of trade networks. According to the author's method these matters are not framing determinism which strictly rules historical events as displayed in part 2 but they build a constant reference to think over them. The second part endeavours to frame out the genesis of louang-phrabane se culture from the beginnings to 16th century when it developed its most achieved form. It deals with the question of genesis of lao culture several centuries before our era, especially with the main ethno-linguistic families who originated the lao people. Then, the contribution in administration and socio-political organisation at one time coming from north, at another time from south and which made its way in mid mekhong valley of which louang-phrabang still gives evidences. And then the different religions traditions connected to those northern and southern contributions which were finally superseded by a renewing wave of ceylonese buddhism during the first part of 16th century. This wave has given louang-phrabang a new cultural outline handed down to nowadays
Doré, Mani-Samouth. "Le Grand Tambour de monastère chez les peuples taïs bouddhistes du Quadrangle d'Or : une approche d'anthropologie comparative dans une perspective ethno-historique." Paris 7, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA070021.
Full textFollowing a research project in the Great-Drum of Luang Prabang monastery ( Laos) undertaken for my DESS (Paris VI1, 2002), the aim of the present dissertation is to study the aforesaid Great-Drum and its accompanying instruments on one hand in a larger geographical frame, namely that of the Buddhist Tai communities of the Golden Quadrangle, and on the other hand in a deeper historical perspective, dating back to the first Chinese dynasty, the Xia who share a common cultural relationship with the Yue, the ancestors of the Tai. Using comparative and ethno-historical methodology, the dissertation is composed of two volumes. The first one (267 pages) is composed of four chapters and the bibliography: 1. Physical characters of the Great-Drum and its accompanying instruments; 2. Techniques of construction and measurement; 3. Rites of construction and consecration; Objects introduced into the Great-Drum and its esoteric symbolism. The second volume (156 pages) is composed of ten annexes, two indices, four glossaries, a table of weights and measures and seven geographical maps. In conclusion, it appears that notwithstanding its modest liturgical and secular fonctions, practised in the present frame of Theravada Buddhism, the Great-Drum has enjoyed a long and honourable destiny. Its roots delve into Siberian shamanism which survives till today in margins, but it is to the Xia dynasty that it owes its morphology and the composition of its instrumental accompaniment. A symbol of political and military power, it has been the instrument not only of imperial conquests, but also of the sinized people, such as the Yue and their Tai descendants, who seek to reproduce the Chinese model. An instrument of power, the Great-Drum expressed new facets of its personality as soon as the Tai communities which had become established in the Golden Quadrangle from the 7th century, came under the influence of various Buddhist schools. It became no longer only an instrument or shamanic mount as in its Siberian origins, but by turns, depending on the historical and cultural contexts: Shaman, Maitreya Buddha (primitive Buddhism), Avalokitesvara Buddhism (Tibetan Buddhism) and "Sovereign of the Dharma" (Tantric Buddhism)
Sisoulath, Bounleuam. "Vientiane, stratégies de développement urbain : processus et acteurs de l'urbanisation dans la capitale de la République Démocratique Populaire Lao." Paris 10, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA100024.
Full textTissandier, Patrice. "Vientiane : à la recherche de la ville." Bordeaux 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005BOR30054.
Full textEnvironmental and social factors, which has lead to the building of Vientiane rise nowadays the question of the validity of “city label” for the Lao capital. Build in 1560 at the time of the installation of the royal authority and destroyed at the end of the 1820's by The Siamese, the short history of Vientiane has not allowed its inscription in the memory and the culture of the Laotian society. The revival of the capital during the French colonization, and its development with the American intervention and the civil war, has lead to a growing opposition between two antagonistic visions among city planners and politicians. The government, coming from the guerilla warfare of the north-east of the country, inspired by the ideological of the Vietnamese “holder brother”, considers Vientiane as a pathogenic organism. The resulting anti-urban policy has produced urban space lethargy and confinement of the society framed territorial identities within village limits. The urban and demographic growth and the increasing trade linked to the economic opening of the country have came along with the adoption of pro-urban actions materialized by the application of occidental urban models. Therefore, the “city of Vientiane” offers a particular shape of urban development. Transgressing the urban/rural classical opposition, the city is characterized by a co-presence of these two forms of land use and space utilization by the population. Vientiane can be described as a polycentric and multi-scale territory as well as a kind of transition toward the centre/peripheral model of ours occidental cities. As such, Vientiane provides a new urban model and another conception of what can be described as a “city”
Jacob, de Lavenère Véronique. "Orgues à bouche du Laos." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040189.
Full textThe khène, Lao mouth organ, is the most widely spread instrument and the most representative of Lao culture. The Lao people themselves consider it as their genine musical heritage although it is found in different forms among various populations stemming from the four major ethnolinghistic families present in Laos. It appears thus as " an instrumental constant at the heart of this complex ethnic and cultural diversity". This work proposes a comparative study of the mouth organ music in populations belonging of each of these four major families (Khmou', Oï, Lao, Kui, Lolo, Phou-Noï and Hmong) approaching this notion of "constant" from many different angles : musicological, organological and ethnological. The first part presents different mouth organs of Laos with a categorization founded on organological characteristics, and together symbols and myths related to the instruments. The second part is devoted to the musical analysis. It describe the circumstances of playing and propose the analysis of mouth organ music for each population. It is based on a corpus of 60 musical examples, which are recorded on a CD enclosed with this work and transcribed. The analysis studies the scales, the forms and structures, the polyphonic playing and the relations between voice and instrument. The last part explains the sociocultural role of these music, then conducts a comparative analysis and adresses questions about the similarities and specificities, on the musical language common, to all this instruments examining, the possible relations between the specific musical traits and the notion of " historic layers"
Mignot, Fabrice. "Santé et intégration nationale au Laos." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040119.
Full textThe Thai Lao lords and the bouddhist monks have a cultural space emerged in the lowlands of the center of Indochina since the XIVth century, especially by spreading health conceptions and practices. French occupant, the kingdom of Laos and the communist regime have continued to develop this territory first by building modern health facilities along a national road parallel to the Mekong River. In 13 villages of 4 multiethnic sites settled along that road health resources and risks of diseases reveal the limits of the integration by the Nation-State of the highlanders relocated in the plains and the valleys. If any traditionnal health practices bring ethnic groups together, some deep factors of differentiation, as movements, water and malaria, lie
Gudefin, Philippe. "Récit de vie à l'épreuve de l'histoire d'un Laotien au Laos (1920-1975)." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019INAL0007.
Full textThe subject of our doctoral thesis focuses on the life story of a Laotian in Laos from 1920-the birth date of our narrator-to 1975, the date of the taking up of power by Laotian communists, with a small incursion into 1978-when our narrator was repatriated to France for health reasons. Based on audio document of 14 tapes on which we recorded an faithfully transcribed the narrative of the interviewee, we then opted for a methodological practise now common in contemporary history, which consists in appealing to one or more witnesses. This practise, derived from American oral history, was popularised by the Chicago school at the beginning of the 1920s and was generalised by sociologie W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki.Once our corpus was constituted, we have subjected it to a semantic analysis by computer to obtain a quantitative readability. Then, we added footnotes in the fields of linguistics, ethnography, anthropology, economics, politics, history and geography, trying to give a more accurate view of the content of the corpus thus constituted. In order to attain this objective, we also consulted books and articles on this period, as well as the archives of Ministry of foreign Affairs at La Courneuve for the period extending from 1955 to 1978 in Laos, from the Embassy of France in Vientiane
Pravongviengkham, Khamphanh. "Bouddhisme et société Lao du Nord." Paris, INALCO, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012INAL0021.
Full textThe aim of the present thesis "Buddhism and Society in northern Laos" is to examine the relations between religion and society which became established in the provinces of Northern Laos. The first part is devoted to the local Buddhism before the current system of government. The second part, the social Buddhism, describes the immersion of the Laotian society in the teaching of Buddha. The third part, analyze the evolutions of monk's roles after 1975, i. E. When they were confronted to a Marxist-Leninist government system
Phissamay, Phirany. "Les enjeux du développement agricole au Laos." Paris 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA020053.
Full textSisombat, Si-ambhaivan. "Le retour des exilés laotiens." Paris 8, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA082541.
Full textVallard, Annabel. "Suivre le fil : ethnographie d'une filière textile à Vientiane (R.D.P. LAO)." Paris 10, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA100008.
Full textSoutheast Asian textiles have typically been approached as objects of material culture viewed from the perspective of the history of art or ethnology. The latter favors a taxonomie approach in reference to styles, usage and ethnie groups. Due to their place in these classifications, textiles have often been conceptualized as `surfaces' that are inscribed with markers of ethnie identities. This thesis, an outcome of two years of ethnographie research, is based on an empirical methodology that employs the notion of following the thread. Considering the fabric in its essential definition, a pliable material made up by the interlacing of at least two perpendicular layers - the warp and the weft - it focuses on the zones where textiles are most tangible and sees their materiality as characterized by flux and instability. The thesis furthermore examines the various modalities of presence of cloth in regard to humans along the various stages of commercial trajectories of textiles that link 'weaving villages' with the largest market of Laos, the morning market in Vientiane. The cloth, as such in its materiality, is especially entangled in the quotidian through surface relationships, but as a ply with the human body as well. It therefore enables one to develop an `anthropological materiology' or an 'anthropology of materiality' which in the analyses of trajectories fends its crucial methodological tool. Paying the attention to `co-production' allows accessing things in the process of being made and furthermore enhances the exploration of close contact, such as that of skin and cloth
Lorrillard, Michel. "Les chroniques royales du laos : essai d'une chronologie des regnes des souverains lao (1316-1887)." Paris, EPHE, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995EPHE4028.
Full textComparative analysis of the chronicles of the ancient lao kingdoms and confrontation of these data with the epigraphic and foreign sources. This work aims to demonstrate the credibility of the lao historical texts. It also shows the whole mechanims that drive to their composition
Charlet-Phommachanh, Marieke. "Anthropologie du développement des villages pluriethniques du bassin de Vang Vieng au Laos." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0369.
Full textIn Laos, the 1980-1990s were marked by important transformations of the peasantry, related on one hand, to the policy resettlement of mountain villages in the lownlands and on the other, to the acceleration of the Laotian economy. These changes had different impacts on village societies and are examined here using an original approach, combining ethnography, human geography and rural economy as applied to six villages of one of the most dynamic intramountainous basins in the country, the Vang Vieng basin. The villages were selected according to several criteria of differentiation such as: the distance from town; ethnic identity; date of establishment, and; the predominant economic dynamics: transition to a commercial culture; emergence of mining activity, and; urban development linked to tourism and commerce. Furthermore, two of these villages underwent economic audits in 1967, offering an exceptional historic benchmark. The reevaluation of their situation, after a forty year interval, permits an improved understanding of the impact of district and national development policies on the village institutions and activities. Finally, a study of the history of relationships between the Taï and mountain people is presented. This analysises multi-ethnic social interactions and characteristics at the basin level, incorporating a Laotian national identity, the remaining ethnic identities and the emergence of common identity based on territory
Harimanana, Aina Nirina. "Vers une amélioration de l'accès au traitement pour les personnes vivant avec l'épilepsie au Laos." Limoges, 2012. https://aurore.unilim.fr/theses/nxfile/default/ba3615b6-4df4-4352-919c-d4b001af88f4/blobholder:0/2012LIMO310H.pdf.
Full textHigh prevalence of misbelieves about epilepsy at the community level and scarce availability of antiepileptic drugs (AED) are underlying factors to poor access to treatment for people with epilepsy (PWE). The success in reducing the epilepsy treatment gap (ETG) relies on improving the access to adequate medical care and the level of adherence to the AED. Which public health measures could be implemented to reduce the ETG in Lao PDR, where the ETG is estimated to 99. 6%? This thesis highlights some answers. The indirect method is an effective way to measure the ETG in low and middle-income countries. Few medical staff is able to diagnose epilepsy and initiate an adequate treatment for PWE. Medical staff shares false beliefs prevailing at the community. The adherence rate to AED of PWE is estimated to 57. 6%. It is associated with illiteracy, being on monotherapy, and experiencing fewer seizures. The importation of phenobarbital is controlled, that can explain the frequent shortage. The amount of PB that can be imported depends on the number of patients with epilepsy reported by health facilities. In areas of intervention of the “Initiative d’accès au traitement antiépileptique”, the level of ETG improved slightly. Having a low level knowledge of epilepsy prevents the PWE to be on AED. Implementing a policy to ensure the coordination of interventions to improve the access to MAE remains crucial. Meanwhile, researches aiming at the validation of intervention tools, monitoring and evaluation of indicators are to be conducted. To improve their attendance to health facilities, PWE need to be informed of the curability of epilepsy and availability of AED
Karlström, Anna. "Preserving impermanence : the creation of heritage in Vientiane, Laos /." Uppsala : Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-101166.
Full textPhilathivong, Naly-Anne. "De la politique criminelle au Laos." Montpellier 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999MON10017.
Full textEvrard, Olivier. "Emergence de la question foncière et relations interethniques au Nord Laos : mobilités, rapports à la terre et organisation sociale dans quelques villages thai͏̈s et khmou' rook de la vallée de la Nam Tha." Paris 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA010579.
Full textNeudorfer, Corinne. "Meet the Akha - help the Akha? : Minderheiten, Tourismus und Entwicklung in Laos /." Bielefeld : Transcript, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015503381&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textNgaosyvathn, Phiouphanh. "Kháp et lám : thème et structure." Paris, EHESS, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987EHES0312.
Full textSisouphanthong, Bounthavy. "Transition et développement : le cas de l'économie Lao : apport de la modélisation macroéconomique." Paris 13, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA131001.
Full textThe Democratic Popular Republic of Lao, classified in the less advanced countries, has a complex historical inheritance. It has adopted the socialism to develop its economy in harmony with its geographical position and social structure. Since the 1980s, the country has launched reforms towards a market oriented economy. These reforms, like those undertaken in Eastern Europe, are regarded as a transition process. In the past the country was controlling its economic reforms but is now more submitted to international advises given by the international Monetary Found and the World Bank in relation with financial supports. Macroeconomic models are used to justify these advises but often give mitigated results because they don’t integrate correctly the historical and social dimension of the country. The aim of the thesis is to develop macroeconomic modelling in order to analyse the economic policy advises and evaluate market mechanisms’ performances. The results give a better understanding of the debate about economic development and options for 2020. Progress have been obtained regarding macroeconomic modelling of the country
Landry, Vincent. "Écotourisme, environnement et stratégies d'acteurs au Laos : l'écogouvernance dans le corridor économique Nord-Sud." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/26908/26908.pdf.
Full textVallée, Julie. "Urbanisation et santé à Vientiane (Laos) : les processus à l’origine des disparités spatiales de santé dans la ville." Phd thesis, Université de Nanterre - Paris X, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00377209.
Full textSi cette ville abrite des phénomènes de santé spatialement différenciés, deux types de mécanismes peuvent l'expliquer. Le premier renvoie aux disparités socio-spatiales : les caractéristiques comme l'âge, le niveau d'éducation et le niveau de vie qui sont autant de facteurs de risque, ne sont en effet pas réparties de façon aléatoire à Vientiane. Néanmoins, il serait approximatif d'interpréter les disparités spatiales de santé comme le reflet des disparités socio-spatiales alors que celles-ci restent de faible ampleur à Vientiane en ce début de XXIème siècle. De fait, un second type de mécanisme participe activement à l'inégale répartition des problèmes de santé dans cette ville : les habitants, au-delà de leurs caractéristiques propres, sont d'autant plus touchés par le diabète, l'hypertension, le surpoids et l'obésité et d'autant moins touchés par l'anémie, la maigreur et le retard de croissance qu'ils résident dans un village plus urbanisé. La santé des habitants de Vientiane est étroitement liée au niveau d'urbanisation de leur lieu de résidence parce que celui-ci influence leur mode de vie, c'est-à-dire leurs comportements (alimentaires, de soin, etc.) à travers les équipements qu'il présente et les normes sociales qu'il véhicule.
Bien qu'avérée, l'influence du lieu de résidence sur la santé ne doit pas être considérée comme opérant de façon identique sur tous les habitants de Vientiane : cette influence varie selon leur pratique et leur maîtrise de l'espace (c'est-à-dire leur capital spatial). Cette recherche souligne donc l'influence du lieu de résidence sur la santé des individus sans toutefois céder à un quelconque déterminisme géographique.
Landry-Desaulniers, Joany. "L'intégration socioéconomique des populations des régions montagneuses au sud du Laos : le cas de la province de Champassak : 1981-2015." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/32687.
Full textDuring the past 35 years, like other countries in Southeast Asia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic went through major changes, especially as the Pathet Lao took control over the country, becoming the official Government. Many steps were taken by the new government to build the Lao nation, such as the ‘collectivization’ program. In 1986, after the failure of previous measures, the Communist Party implemented free-market reforms in a way to increase economic growth. This was done by encouraging foreign investment and the country’s economic development. Over the last three decades, Lao citizens had to adapt to these changes; especially in mountainous areas, where agrarian changes occurred. Among them, cash crops, monocropping and plantations have modified the landscape and the socioeconomic geography of the territory. From these findings, questions emerge, such as: Who is motivating socioeconomic and territorial integration of mountainous and marginal regions to different levels? What are the goals pursued by the actors of the socioeconomic and territorial integration and which strategies are adopted? What are the factors that contribute to various paces in the rhythm of adaptation? Where do people acquire their knowledge to adapt to the changes generated by integration policies and strategies? A better understanding of the process underlying the socioeconomic regional integration of the country into the global market, from 1981 to 2015, is the general objective of this research. Based on a case study of Bachieng Chaleunsouk and Pathoumphone districts, located at the margins of the Bolaven Plateau, in Champasak region, this research demonstrates how development generates new dynamics between the people, the state and the market.
Phiphak, Khamphéo. "Le Laos : les enjeux politiques et les perspectives." Paris 8, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA082406.
Full textThis thesis contain research on the political evolution of Laos from 1953, the year of its independence, to 2004. The first phase of research describes the end of the monarchy on December 2, 1975. The second phase of the research highlights the development of the communist party rule from December 2, 1975 until present day. The lao monarchy was shaken and thus weakened. This was caused by the internal conflict between the three parties of Laos, which included the rightist, the neutralist and the leftist. The King, who has been the symbol of the national unity, was removed by the coup of December 2, 1975. After the lao monarchy was abolished, the Popular Democratic Republic of Laos was proclaimed in 1975. Laos enhanced its ties with Vietnam by signing a Special FriendshipTreaty Lao-Viet in 1977. The first Constitution’s promulgation of the PDRL was announced on August 15, 1991, and since then, its institutional system has been under the control of the central committee. Since 1997, Laos has been a full member of ASEAN organization. Taking into account the current situation of Laos, the best formula for Laos to promote Peace is to cooperate economically with its neighboring countries. A democratized government system might help Laos, putting emphasis on National Unity and urging the return of Lao diaspora
Tan, Danielle. "Du communisme au néolibéralisme : le rôle des réseaux chinois dans la transformation de l'Etat au Laos." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011IEPP0078.
Full textWhile political analyses on Laos are rare, this thesis sheds light on how neoliberal globalization has transformed the practices and modes of exercising power in one of the last Communist regimes in the world. Although the country is generally considered a “weak state” par excellence, the main argument of the thesis is to overcome the recurring speech presenting Laos as a victim of globalization, of its powerful neighbors, and of China in particular. To defend this hypothesis, the research focused on Northern Laos, which has been crystallizing all the challenges the country faces, since the construction of the North-South Economic Corridor linking Kunming to Bangkok by crossing the northern provinces of Laos. This highway running through mountainous areas, poor and ethnically diverse, has become a crucial route of entry for companies and Chinese migrants who come to seize the economic opportunities offered by this under-populated country but rich in natural resources. Beyond the rhetoric of contemporary globalization, which has declared the retreat of the state, the analysis of this borderland illustrates the redeployment of the post-socialist state thanks to the acquisition of techniques, knowledge and procedures of the neoliberal rationality. In this context, transnational Chinese networks play a key role in the production of a “neoliberal governmentality from the margins” that allows the lowland state to reaffirm its hegemony over society
Phouphet, Kyophilavong. "Evaluation of Macroeconomic Policy in Laos." 名古屋大学大学院経済学研究科附属国際経済政策研究センター, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/11932.
Full textZani, Leah. "Revival| Remains of War in Laos." Thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10288798.
Full textThis dissertation examines how legacies of war and ongoing violence are incorporated into peacetime development in contemporary Laos. I introduce the conceptual parallel of remains and revivals. By “remains,” I refer to massive military wastes left over from the Secret War in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s. During the Vietnam War, Laos was secretly bombed by the United States for nearly a decade. As a result of this covert conflict, contemporary Laos is the most massively cluster-bombed country in the world. Dangerous explosives continue to maim and kill; the risk of explosion frustrates plans to lure investors and build basic infrastructure. Remains also refers to the ongoing sociocultural impact of violence, including experiences of malicious ghosts and personal misfortune. By “revival,” I refer to the present period of rapid socioeconomic transformation as Laos opens to foreign intervention. I use revival as a touchstone for several interweaving processes: socioeconomic liberalization, authoritarian renovation, and religious awakening. Drawing on ethnographic evidence of Lao poetic parallelism, I innovate a method of poetic inquiry suited to hazardous fieldwork.
Buchheit, Pauline. "Le recueil de multiples finalités de l'environnement en amont d'un diagnostic de vulnérabilité et de résilience : Application à un bassin versant au Laos." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris, Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016IAVF0008.
Full textLao PDR is a landlocked country with low population density, which stands nowadays in a process of regional economic integration, after suffering wars related to decolonization and Cold War during several decades. A very fast economic growth, based on the development of infrastructures of transport and natural resource exploitation, has led to large differentiated impacts on populations and their resource based livelihoods. The concepts of resilience and vulnerability have been used in different disciplines to analyze and manage the dynamics of geographical areas and social groups facing rapid and uncertain changes. Both concepts are used within a variety of frameworks of analysis of society-environment relationships. While all reviewed frameworks take into account multiple scales of analysis in order to tackle the complexity of the studied phenomena, they do not, however, assess vulnerability and resilience at the same scales. In particular, some frameworks are actor-centered, while others are system-centered. The scale and limit of the socioecological system whose resilience or vulnerability is assessed depend on the issues that the authors want to tackle. Before such an assessment, it seems necessary to identify the issues of resilience and vulnerability that we want to address. This task should not be taken over by scientists alone, but by other stakeholders as well. The question is: how can we incorporate multiple viewpoints in the system design? For this, our framework considers a socioecological system both as a specific representation of the environment offered by a stakeholder, and as a set of elements contributing to one function. This system is organized in a hierarchy of levels of observation, in which each level corresponds to an intermediary function. We developed and tested a process to collect system representations of the environment from various stakeholders, that is to say, the way they structure a socioecological system that makes sense to them, according to the purposes that they assign to their environment. This approach has been tested in the catchment area of the Nam Lik river, Fuang district, Vientiane province, where the Nam Lik 1-2 hydropower dam was built in 2010. A series of workshops were held with residents of the study area, employees of local government and Lao National University teachers. At the earliest stage of a vulnerability or resilience assessment in the field study, this thesis proposes a reflection on the possible framings of these concepts, as well as methods to collect them from multiple stakeholders
Bounmixay, Luck. "Communal land tenure : a social anthropological study in Laos= Tierras comunales: un estudio socio-antropológico en Laos." Doctoral thesis, TDR (Tesis Doctorales en Red), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/365045.
Full textLao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) or Laos is a landlocked and mountainous country situated in the center of the Continental Southeast Asia region bordering with Myanmar, China, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. It is considered one of the most forested countries in the region and ranked as one of the most culturally diverse with almost 50 percent indigenous peoples. Yet, it is one of the poorest nations in the world. Over the last decade, forest resources have become degraded because of logging, concessions, hydropower and mining as well as shifting cultivation due to rising population density in the uplands. Lao Government policy has focused on eradicating shifting cultivation, but the initial government land and forest allocation program meant that the ethnic groups lost their rain-fed upland fields as they were no longer allowed to practice customary land use with long fallows. None of the upland ethnic groups have title to the land they use. Many environmentally sound traditional land use systems still exist in Lao PDR in remote areas in the form of communal tenure. Here the land is managed by the village which each year re-distributes it according to need and labor. This research focuses on these traditional systems to identify which particular features of the management regime could help “reverse degradation by innovation”. The research hypothesis is that common property regimes are a means for the poor to secure access to natural resources’ benefit streams that serve as a safety net against vulnerability. At the same time and most importantly, with communal tenure recognized by government, the communities can lower the risk of their lands being grabbed by concessions. The thesis reviews Elinor Ostrom’s theory on Common Property Resource (CPR) of literature to test the hypothesis. Field study was conducted in Houaphan province in Lao PDR focusing on Hmong and Tai Daeng ethnic groups in three districts (Xum-Nue, Viengxay and Sopbao). It is seen that the traditional communal land management as a system which for the ethnic groups is linked to their culture. It allows for equity and if the government endorses communal land title which is possible by law but not yet implemented, this system could be copied under appropriate institutional arrangements to other places in the country. It is also realized that land may not be under shifting cultivation for many more years due to growing population density and that proactive measures should be taken to quickly restore the fertility of the fallows. This change of land use can best be practiced by the communities as a whole with control over their lands. This study is not only considered an important contribution to current land policy making process; it also is necessary to take into account when carrying out in practice land management in Lao PDR.
Le, Vaillant Marivanh. "Biographie du prince Boun Oum na Champassak : une histoire laotienne (1910-1980)." Paris, INALCO, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998INAL0003.
Full textHeir to the Champassak House, after he renounced his rights over this Laotian area in 1946, Chao Boun Oum contributes to the constitution of an internationally recognized entity. As a personality that cannot be ignored in the local political world, he holds in the kingdom, being the third dignitary in the constitutional order, several high offices, such a chief inspector of the kingdom and Prime Minister. The character being constantly controversial, this PhD dissertation examines the validity of the accusations made to the Prince and evaluates their implications with a double approach : the emergence of a unified Laos after it freed from the Asian and European foreign dominations, and the crystallization on the Prince's personality, over a short time, of this one-century old mutation. In this study, Chao Boun Oum turns out to be in the middle of five approaches : an international approach of decolonization and cold war ; a regional approach when Laos is the object of wars of influence ; a Laotian approach that is, under the appearance of national unity, a conflict of interests between politically rival factions, enhanced by family antagonisms ; a local and familial approach when the Prince's House has difficulties to re-define its specificity compared to the Luang Pranbang House, the main beneficiary of the unity ; a personal approach heading a dynasty, Chao Boun Oum's traditional education had not prepared him to face the stakes of the world he lives in. While politics is, in Laos, a question of persons, he shows an undeniable absence of political sense. Undesirable amid the establishment because of his independence of mind and tone, the Prince seems to suffer from being cast out by the cast he rightfully belongs to
Soundara, Lamphoune. "Contribution à la grammaire de la langue kmhmouʔ." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCF002/document.
Full textThis dissertation is a contribution to the description of Kmhmouʔ, a language with an oral tradition spoken in Laos. It presents the general characteristics of this language, which is among the less described languages of the region of Southeast Asia, as shown by the bibliography. Kmhmouʔ, an isolating language, does not exhibit any grammatical morphology. Words are mostly multi-categorial as regards parts of speech, and multi-functional: the verb-noun distinction is based essentially on combinatory properties of words. Nouns are basically all mass terms bearing a notional meaning, and they become countable and referential by means of determiners (classifiers, deictics, quantifiers and qualifiers); due to the lack of verb morphology, tense, aspect and mood can be either unmarked and identifiable by the context, marked by lexical means (adverbs or adverbial phrases), or marked by particles originating from various parts of speech (mostly verbs), and for the most part borrowed from contact languages.This grammatical description is based on spontaneous data collected during fieldwork in Kmhmouʔ villages and from the Lao national radio (Kmhmouʔ broadcast). The fieldwork was conducted in Kmhmouʔ, and the analysis and interpretation of the corpus benefited from the fact that the author is native speaker of Kmhmouʔ. A significant part of the corpus (1h30 in total) is provided in an appendix, fully glossed and translated into French and Lao.This thesis, besides making data and grammar of the Eastern Kmhmouʔ dialect available for the first time, opens up some new and challenging paths for the study of the typology of isolating languages and transcategoriality, as well as for studies of the role of language contact in grammaticalization
Hem, Inthavong Khamla. "Factors influencing rice production efficiency in Ban Home, Laos." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99183.
Full textSurvey data were collected in the region in 2003, for both wet season and dry season rice production. Using these data, a Cobb-Douglas frontier production function was estimated for each season using two approaches, deterministic and stochastic. During the wet season, several factors were statistically significant and positive in their effect on rice yield: area in rice production, level of fertilizer use, total labour, the use of a modern variety, sandy soil and contact with a professional agricultural advisor. During the dry season, only area in rice production and fertilizer were significant. Based on the frontier production functions, it is possible to conclude that the average technical efficiency of farmers is higher during the dry season than the wet season, for both the deterministic and stochastic approaches.
However, socio-economic factors were unable to explain the level of technical efficiency among farmers, when evaluated using a standard regression approach. By using a simple t-test to compare the mean level of efficiency of different groups of farmers, some significant differences emerged. Farmers who used credit were found to be more efficient than those who did not. Moreover, experienced farmers were more efficient than less experienced farmers. Also, farmers with less than 7 years of education were more efficient than more educated farmers.
Svengsuksa, Boua Khay Khone. "Reconstitution du couvert végétal et la revalorisation des terrains après la culture sur brûlis dans le district de Muang Fuang, province de Vientiane, R. D. P. Lao." Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MNHN0001.
Full textAn analysis has been conducted of the crucial problem of shifting slash-and-burn cultivation in the Muang Fuang District of Laos, Vientiane Province. Studies were made on the peoples now living in the district, composed of Lao, Khmou, Hmong and Yao, who immigrated from nearby areas of persistent insecurity where they previously practiced this system of cultivation. The work focused on the traditional farming practices used by these groups, and on the permanent cultivation techniques now being used (flooded rice fields, and plantations of various crops for local use or for sale in markets and for export) with government encouragement in its effort progressively to replace shifting slash-and-burn agriculture with permanent settlement. An analysis of the impact of these agricultural practices on the vegetation, which was originally a rich, dense semi-evergreen tropical forest, shows that forest regenerates after about ten years, with a trend toward a climax forest type corresponding to the ecological conditions of the region. In order to improve the economy of the region, several possibilities were examined for improving land after shifting slash-and-burn agriculture: establishment of perennial cultivation, irrigated and flooded rice production, and natural resources exploitation, especially of non-timber forest products. This array of products can now be brought to market and exported via new roads built in the district. This has resulted in a new way of life for the inhabitants of the study area, who have become sedentary and are now respecting the environment by progressively abandoning shifting slash-and-burn agriculture
Clotté-Sygnavong, Marithone. "Souphanavong, le "Prince Rouge" : biographie de l'ancien président de la République Démocratique Populaire du Laos (1909-1995)." Paris, INALCO, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001INAL0007.
Full textBorn in 1909, Souphanavong was the son of vice-roy Luang Prabang. He studied in Hanoï and Paris where he was graduated as engineer. He returned to Indochina in 1937, worked in Nha Trung and married a Vietnamese. Since 1945, he fought to obtain power in Laos with the support of Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese troops. He was thus called "the Red Prince". The general agreement of July 21st 1954 and July 23rd 1962 should have guaranteed the neutrality of Laos. But Souphanavong used them to introduce communism in his country. Souphanavong reached his aim in 1975 with the assistance of socialist coutries. After the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon, Laos became communist. On December 2nd, Souphanavong acceded to the functions of president of the Republic. Then more than four hundred thousand Laotians took refuge abroad. Souphanavong resigned in 1986 and died in 1995. His life was closely linked with Laos history
Mottet, Éric. "Géopolitique des ressources naturelles de la RDP Lao : appropriation, développement et intégration régionale." Thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2014/30736/30736.pdf.
Full textOlmo, Luisa. "Investigating smallholder cattle and buffalo reproductive health and management in Lao PDR to enhance reproductive efficiency and improve livelihoods." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21744.
Full textMartinez-Aussel, Bertrand. "Activités 98-99 du service de cardiologie de l'hopital provincial de Luang Prabang (RDP LAO) : analyses et perspectives dans le cadre du système de santé provincial." Montpellier 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999MON11142.
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