Gender and Generation in Southeast Asian Agrarian Transformations

ISBN-13: 9780367590079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 194 str.

Clara Mi Young Park; Ben White

Opis

The contributions to this collection focus on the intersecting dynamics of gender, generation and class in Southeast Asian rural communities engaging with expanding capitalist relations. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Gender and generation in Southeast Asian agro-commodity booms  Chapter 2. Gender and land dispossession: a comparative analysis  Chapter 3. Gender and generation in engagements with oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: insights from feminist political ecology  Chapter 4. Intergenerational displacement in Indonesia’s oil palm plantation zone  Chapter 5. Women, gender and protest: contesting oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia  Chapter 6. In the law & on the land: finding the female farmer in Myanmar’s National Land Use Policy  Chapter 7. Gendered eviction, protest and recovery: a feminist political ecology engagement with land grabbing in rural Cambodia  Chapter 8. ‘We are not afraid to die’: gender dynamics of agrarian change in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia  Chapter 9. Land concessions and rural youth in Southern Laos  Chapter 10. Gaharu King – Family Queen: material gendered political ecology of the eaglewood boom in Kalimantan, Indonesia

 

O autorze

Clara Mi Young Park is a PhD candidate at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands. Her current research focuses on the gendered and ‘generationed’ political economy of climate change and resource grabbing in Myanmar and Cambodia. Clara is the regional Gender Rural and Social Development Officer with the Asia Pacific Regional Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Bangkok.

Ben White is Emeritus Professor of Rural Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands. His research and teaching has focused on processes of agrarian change and the anthropology and history of childhood and youth, especially in Indonesia. He is a founder member of the Land Deal Politics Initiative (www.iss.nl/ldpi), and the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (www.iss.nl/erpi).