Taking Southeast Asia to Market Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age

Name: Taking Southeast Asia to Market Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age
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ISBN: 9780801474330

ISBN-10: 0801474337

ISBN-13: 9780801474330

Edition: 2008

Authors: Joseph Nevins, Nancy Lee Peluso

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Recent changes in the global economy and in Southeast Asian national political economies have led to new forms of commodity production and new commodities. Using insights from political economy and commodity studies, the essays in Taking Southeast Asia to Market trace the myriad ways recent alignments among producers, distributors, and consumers are affecting people and nature throughout the region. In case studies ranging from coffee and hardwood products to mushroom pickers and Vietnamese factory workers, the authors detail the Southeast Asian articulations of these processes while also discussing the broader implications of these shifts. Taken together, the cases show how commodities…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 4/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: Commoditization in Southeast Asia




New Commodities, Scales, and Sources of Capital



Contingent Commodities: Mobilizing Labor in and beyond Southeast Asian Forests




What's New with the Old? Scalar Dialectics and the Reorganization of Indonesia's Timber Industry




Contesting "Flexibility": Networks of Place, Gender, and Class in Vietnamese Workers' Resistance




Worshipping Work: Producing Commodity Producers in Contemporary Indonesia




New Enclosures and Territorializations



China and the Production of Forestlands in Lao PDR: A Political Ecology of Transnational Enclosure




Water Power: Machines, Modernizers, and Meta-Commoditization on the Mekong River




Contested Commodifications: Struggles over Nature in a National Park




Sovereignty in Burma after the Entrepreneurial Turn: Mosaics of Control, Commodified Spaces, and Regulated Violence in Contemporary Burma




New Markets, New Socionatures, New Actors



Old Markets, New Commodities: Aquarian Capitalism in Indonesia




Production of People and Nature, Rice, and Coffee: The Semendo People in South Sumatra and Lampung




The Message Is the Market: Selling Biotechnology and Nation in Malaysia




New Concepts, New Natures? Revisiting Commodity Production in Southern Thailand



Concluding Comparisons: Products and Processes of Commoditization in Southeast Asia



Notes


References


List of Contributors


Index