Taking Southeast Asia to market : commodities, nature, and people in the neoliberal age

Author(s)

• Nevins, Joseph
• Peluso, Nancy Lee

Bibliographic Information

Taking Southeast Asia to market : commodities, nature, and people in the neoliberal age

edited by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso

（Cornell paperbacks）

Cornell University Press, 2008

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-268) and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of 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 Fougeres10. 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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA86412038
• ISBN:
  • 9780801474330
• LCCN: 2007049023
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ithaca, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 280 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HF1040.9.A785
  • DC22 : 381.0959
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Commercial products -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Natural resources -- Southeast Asia -- Management -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Neoliberalism -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Southeast Asia -- Commerce -- Social aspects -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Southeast Asia -- Commercial policy -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Human ecology -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Globalization -- Environmental aspects -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00296443