Peer-Reviewed Publications
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Ponce, Floramante SJ (2025). From flickers to full power: when reliable electricity arrived in Banmai. New Mandala: https://www.newmandala.org/from-flickers-to-full-power-when-reliable-electricity-arrived-in-banmai/.
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Ponce, Floramante SJ (2025). Beyond Debt-Trap Narratives: How the Lao State Manoeuvres the Hybrid Governance of a Chinese Hydropower Project. Advances in Southeast Asian Studies 18(1): 5-29 https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0118
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https://aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/article/view/8279
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Ponce, Floramante SJ (2025). Laos in 2024: Progress and Persistence.Southeast Asian Affairs 161-180
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Ponce, Floramante SJ (2023). Hydroelectric development in “China’s backyard”? Modernity, market integration, and (im)mobilities in northwestern Laos. Asian Anthropology 22 (4): 298-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2023.2254129
Website:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1683478X.2023.2254129
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Ponce, Floramante SJ (2022) ‘Moving Away from the Margins? How a Chinese Hydropower Project Made a Lao Community Modern and Comfortable.’ In Extracting Development: Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia, edited by Oliver Tappe and Simon Rowedder, 143-171. Singrapore: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute.
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Ponce, Floramante SJ (2022). ‘Eating with the People: How a Chinese Hydropower Project Changed Food Experiences in a Lao Community.’ Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 30 (1): 1-23. (https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/saas/30/1/saas300102.xml)
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https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/saas/30/1/saas300102.xml
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Ponce, Floramante SJ (2025, Forthcoming). ‘Refrigeration After Relocation: What Refrigerators Can (Not) Do to Improve Lives in a Resettled Community in Northwestern Laos.’ In Being Present: Emerging Ethnographic Perspectives on Laos, edited by Paul-David Lutz and Rosalie Stolz. Singapore: National University of Singapore (NUS) Press.
Website:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo259413059.html
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Ponce, Floramante SJ (2025, Accepted). Asymmetrical Affects: ‘Comforts’ (Sabay) of a Chinese Hydropower Project in Northern Laos. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology.
Under Review
Ponce, Floramante SJ (Under Review). (Im)Mobility Infrastructures: How a BRI Hydropower Project (Im)Mobilized People in Northern Laos. Population, Space and Place
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Ponce, Floramante SJ (Under Review). ‘Electrifying Experiences: How a Chinese Project Poses Paradoxes of Electricity in Northern Laos.’ New Mandala
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Ponce, Floramante SJ and Pierre Petit (Under Review). ‘Popular Devotional and Amuletic Objects in Late-Socialist Laos.’ In Religions in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter J. Braeunlein and Andrea Lauser. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag