Taking Southeast Asia to Market

Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age

• Author(s): Joseph Nevins, Nancy Lee Peluso,
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Pages: 280
• ISBN_13: 9780801474330
  ISBN_10: 0801474337
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / Commodities / General , Business & Economics / Economic Conditions , Business & Economics / Industries / Natural Resource Extraction , Business & Economics / Commerce , History / Asia / Southeast Asia , Nature / Ecology , Nature / Natural Resources , Political Science / Political Economy , Political Science / Globalization , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Human Geography ,

Description:... Introduction : commoditization in Southeast Asia / Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso -- Contingent commodities : mobilizing labor in and beyond Southeast Asian forests / Anna Tsing -- What's new with the old? : scalar dialectics and the reorganization of Indonesia's timber industry / Paul K. Gellert -- Contesting "flexibility" : networks of place, gender, and class in Vietnamese workers' resistance / Angie Ngọc Trà̂n -- Worshipping work : producing commodity producers in contemporary Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- China and the production of forestlands in Lao PDR : a political ecology of transnational enclosure / Keith Barney -- Water power : machines, modernizers, and meta-commoditization on the Mekong River / David Biggs -- Contested commodifications : struggles over nature in a national park / Tania Murray Li -- Sovereignty in Burma after the entrepreneurial turn : mosaics of control, commodified spaces, and regulated violence in contemporary Burma / Ken MacLean -- Old markets, new commodities : aquarian capitalism in Indonesia / Dorian Fougères -- Production of people and nature, rice, and coffee : the Semendo people in South Sumatra and Lampung / Lesley Potter -- The message is the market : selling biotechnology and nation in Malaysia / Sandra Smeltzer -- New concepts, new natures? : revisiting commodity production in Southern Thailand / Peter Vandergeest -- Concluding comparisons : products and processes of commoditization in Southeast Asia / Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso.