基本説明
With case studies ranging from coffee and hardwood products to mushroom pickers and Vietnamese factory workers, this book traces the myriad ways recent alignments among producers, distributors, and consumers are affecting people and nature throughout the region.
Full Description
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 illuminate the convergence of changing social forces in Southeast Asia today, as they transform the terms, practices, and experiences of everyday life and politics in the global economy.
Contents
Introduction: Commoditization in Southeast Asia
by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee PelusoPart I. New Commodities, Scales, and Sources of Capital1. Contingent Commodities: Mobilizing Labor in and beyond Southeast Asian Forests
by Anna Tsing2. What's New with the Old? Scalar Dialectics and the Reorganization of Indonesia's Timber Industry
by Paul K. Gellert3. Contesting "Flexibility": Networks of Place, Gender, and Class in Vietnamese Workers' Resistance
by Angie Ng?c Tr?n4. Worshipping Work: Producing Commodity Producers in Contemporary Indonesia
by Daromir RudnyckyjPart II. New Enclosures and Territorializations5. China and the Production of Forestlands in Lao PDR: A Political Ecology of Transnational Enclosure
by Keith Barney6. Water Power: Machines, Modernizers, and Meta-Commoditization on the Mekong River
by David Biggs
7. Contested Commodifications: Struggles over Nature in a National Park
by Tania Murray Li8 Sovereignty in Burma after the Entrepreneurial Turn: Mosaics of Control, Commodified Spaces, and Regulated Violence in Contemporary Burma
by Ken MacLeanPart III. New Markets, New Socionatures, New Actors9. Old Markets, New Commodities: Aquarian Capitalism in Indonesia
by Dorian Fougères10. Production of People and Nature, Rice, and Coffee: The Semendo People in South Sumatra and Lampung
by Lesley Potter11. The Message Is the Market: Selling Biotechnology and Nation in Malaysia
by Sandra Smeltzer12. New Concepts, New Natures? Revisiting Commodity Production in Southern Thailand
by Peter VandergeestConcluding Comparisons: Products and Processes of Commoditization in Southeast Asia
by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee PelusoNotes
References
List of Contributors
Index
