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Diffractions of Traditional Herbal Medicines in Thailand: Reading for Greater Difference in the Diverse Economies Debate
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Abstract The paper introduces diffractive reading to economic geographic thinking and suggests to add a further understanding of what diversity can mean in the debate about diverse economic practices and their geographies. Drawing on field work in Thailand the paper shows how free trade policies and protecti... view more
The paper introduces diffractive reading to economic geographic thinking and suggests to add a further understanding of what diversity can mean in the debate about diverse economic practices and their geographies. Drawing on field work in Thailand the paper shows how free trade policies and protection of traditional knowledge and biological diversity acts have reconfigured traditional herbal medicine heavily in recent years. These regimes do not simply work differently - one as opposed to the other - but diffractively. That means both regimes coevolve in interaction. Diffractive reading helps to understand how capitalistic and non-capitalistic practices co-constitute in transnational and relational geographies and allows to read for greater difference in the diverse economies debate.... view less
Keywords
economic history; Thailand; economic method; tradition; medicine; economic geography
Classification
Economic and Social Geography
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
worlding; traditionelle Medizin; diverse economies; Diffraktion
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
15 p.
Status
Preprint; not reviewed