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Carol Yong
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Company: Individual
Country: Malaysia
Short Statement: Currently an independent researcher/consultant.

Personal and academic interest in monitoring dam projects - proposed or being built - especially in Asia, and networking with individuals and concerned groups on the issue.
Displacement Experience: Research and NGO-related activism since the mid 1980s, in the areas of forced displacement and resettlement through ‘development’ (especially dams) and rights violations of indigenous peoples and tribal minorities broadly and Malaysia specifically.
Publications: 2008. Autonomy Reconstituted: Social and Gendered Impacts of Dam Resettlement on the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia. In: Gender and Natural Resource Management in Asia: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions (2008) (Chapter 6). Edited by Bernadette Resurreccion and Rebecca Elmhirst. Earthscan, London and Sterling. E-version published by IDRC (ISBN 978-1-55250-398-0).

2006. "Autonomy Reconstituted: Social and Gendered Impacts of Dam Resettlement on the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia." In: Gender, Technology and Development 10(1). Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, pp. 77-99.

2005. The Impact of Dams and Resettlement on Women’s Lives.’ Article in World Rainforest Movement (WRM) Special issue on Women, forests and plantations: The gender dimension. 2005. Montevideo.

2003. Flowed Over: The Babagon Dam and the Resettlement of Kadazandusuns in Sabah. Subang Jaya: Center for Orang Asli Concerns, 2003. xviii +217 pp., maps, figures, plates, glossary, bibliography. ISBN 983-40042-8-1 (Email: coac@tm.net.my). This work represents a revised thesis submitted to the University of Malaya for a M.Phil degree in 2000.

2001. Gender Impact of Resettlement: The Case of Babagon Dam in Sabah, Malaysia. In: Gender, Technology and Development 5(2). Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, pp. 223-244.

2001. Resettlement and Changes in Access to Resources, Malaysia – Loss of Resources as a Result of Resettlement: Kampong Tampasak. In: Vanessa Griffen (ed.). Seeing the Forest for the People: a Handbook on Gender, Forestry and Rural Livelihoods. Gender and Development Programme (GAD), Asian and Pacific Development Centre (APDC), Kuala Lumpur, pp. 47-48.

2001. Forest and Changes in Livelihoods (case study of a dam-induced resettlement village, Kampong Tampasak, Malaysia). In: Vanesa Griffen (ed.). Seeing the Forest for the People: a Handbook on Gender, Forestry and Rural Livelihoods. Gender and Development Programme (GAD), Asian and Pacific Development Centre (APDC), Kuala Lumpur, pp. 124-128.

2000. “Hard Rock: Rollin’ in Turkey” in VoxCover, The Magazine of The Sun on Sunday (Malaysian tabloid), 5 November 2000, pp.8-11. (Article on the Ilisu Dam and the damming of Hasankeyf in the Southeastern Anatolian region of Turkey, based on a personal site visit in August 2000).

Unpublished paper presented at the IASFM 10th Conference, Talking Across Borders: New Dialogues in Forced Migration Studies. 18-22 June, 2006, Toronto, Canada. "Livelihoods and autonomy re-ordered: Social and Gendered Implications of State-led Resettlement of Orang Asli in Malaysia."
Highest Degree: Highest Degree: PhD Sussex University 2006
(Doctoral fieldwork on two dam-affected Orang Asli communities, the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia - The Temenggor Dam in Hulu Perak and Sungai Selangor Dam in Kuala Selangor )

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