Taking Southeast Asia to Market

Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-04-22
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9780801474330

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Joseph Nevins is Associate Professor of Geography at Vassar College and the author of A Not-So-Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor, also from Cornell, among other books. Nancy Lee Peluso is Professor of Environmental Social Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the coeditor of Violent Environments, also from Cornell, and the author of Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java.

Introduction: Commoditization in Southeast Asiaby Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee PelusoPart I. New Commodities, Scales, and Sources of Capital1. Contingent Commodities: Mobilizing Labor in and beyond Southeast Asian Forestsby Anna Tsing2. What's New with the Old? Scalar Dialectics and the Reorganization of Indonesia's Timber Industryby Paul K. Gellert3. Contesting "Flexibility": Networks of Place, Gender, and Class in Vietnamese Workers' Resistanceby Angie Ng?c Tr?n4. Worshipping Work: Producing Commodity Producers in Contemporary Indonesiaby Daromir RudnyckyjPart II. New Enclosures and Territorializations5. China and the Production of Forestlands in Lao PDR: A Political Ecology of Transnational Enclosureby Keith Barney6. Water Power: Machines, Modernizers, and Meta-Commoditization on the Mekong Riverby David Biggs7. Contested Commodifications: Struggles over Nature in a National Parkby Tania Murray Li8 Sovereignty in Burma after the Entrepreneurial Turn: Mosaics of Control, Commodified Spaces, and Regulated Violence in Contemporary Burmaby Ken MacLeanPart III. New Markets, New Socionatures, New Actors9. Old Markets, New Commodities: Aquarian Capitalism in Indonesiaby Dorian Fougères10. Production of People and Nature, Rice, and Coffee: The Semendo People in South Sumatra and Lampungby Lesley Potter11. The Message Is the Market: Selling Biotechnology and Nation in Malaysiaby Sandra Smeltzer12. New Concepts, New Natures? Revisiting Commodity Production in Southern Thailandby Peter VandergeestConcluding Comparisons: Products and Processes of Commoditization in Southeast Asiaby Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee PelusoNotesReferencesList of ContributorsIndex

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.(Economic Geography)