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...
Recent changes in the global economy and in Southeast Asian national political economies have led to new forms of commodity production and new commodi...
The authors in this volume focus primarily on new frontiers of land control and their active creation. These frontiers are sites where authorities, sovereignties, rights and hegemonies of the recent past have been challenged by new enclosures, property regimes and territorializations.
The authors in this volume focus primarily on new frontiers of land control and their active creation. These frontiers are sites where authorities, so...
