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Author:   Joseph Nevins ,  Nancy Lee Peluso
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780801446627

ISBN 10:   0801446627
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   22 April 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Commoditization in Southeast Asia by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso Part I. New Commodities, Scales, and Sources of Capital 1. Contingent Commodities: Mobilizing Labor in and beyond Southeast Asian Forests by Anna Tsing 2. What's New with the Old? Scalar Dialectics and the Reorganization of Indonesia's Timber Industry by Paul K. Gellert 3. Contesting ""Flexibility"": Networks of Place, Gender, and Class in Vietnamese Workers' Resistance by Angie Ngoc Tran 4. Worshipping Work: Producing Commodity Producers in Contemporary Indonesia by Daromir Rudnyckyj Part II. New Enclosures and Territorializations 5. China and the Production of Forestlands in Lao PDR: A Political Ecology of Transnational Enclosure by Keith Barney 6. 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 Li 8 Sovereignty in Burma after the Entrepreneurial Turn: Mosaics of Control, Commodified Spaces, and Regulated Violence in Contemporary Burma by Ken MacLean Part III. New Markets, New Socionatures, New Actors 9. Old Markets, New Commodities: Aquarian Capitalism in Indonesia by Dorian Fougeres 10. Production of People and Nature, Rice, and Coffee: The Semendo People in South Sumatra and Lampung by Lesley Potter 11. The Message Is the Market: Selling Biotechnology and Nation in Malaysia by Sandra Smeltzer 12. New Concepts, New Natures? Revisiting Commodity Production in Southern Thailand by Peter Vandergeest Concluding Comparisons: Products and Processes of Commoditization in Southeast Asia by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso Notes References List of Contributors Index"

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What unites these case studies is their view that commodification processes under the 'new' global order are increasingly complex and their critical stance toward the kinds of sociopolitical transformations that are wrought by a neoliberal market economy. The intractability of 'neoliberalist tendencies' is explained by, inter alia, the neoliberal market economy's ability to localize and contain fallouts; its effectiveness in limiting transnational resistance to its spread; and the particular historical, political contingencies in specific places that sustain such tendencies. Its resilience is also partly explained by its constant morphing into more (outwardly) benign forms. This edited volume is thus an important and much appreciated addition that deepens our understanding of pertinent social, economic, and political processes in Southeast Asia. It is especially significant and timely in illuminating how neoliberalizing processes make new commodities and remake old ones. -Harvey Neo, Economic Geography

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Nancy Lee Peluso is Professor of Society & Environment and is currently the Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She brings approaches from critical political ecology to her research on forests, small-scale gold mining, migration, and other influences on agrarian change.

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