Turning Land into Capital

Philip Hirsch is emeritus professor of human geography at the University of Sydney and coauthor of Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia. Kevin Woods is a fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu. Natalia Scurrah is an independent researcher based in Thailand and coauthor of The Mekong: A Sociolegal Approach to River Basin Development. Michael Dwyer is associate professor of geography at Indiana University Bloomington and author of Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush.

• Foreword by K. SivaramakrishnanPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, and Michael B. DwyerList of AbbreviationsPART I: Mekong Regional Themes1. Land and Capital across Borders: A Regional Geopolitics / Natalia Scurrah and Philip Hirsch2. Legacies in Land Governance: Colonialism, War, and Socialism / Kevin Woods, Michael B. Dwyer, and Jean-Christophe Diepart3. Agrarian Modernization and Counter Land Reforms: Ideologies and Realities / Jean-Christophe Diepart and Christian Castellanet4. Grounding Land Justice: Contested Principles, Processes, and Outcomes / Carl Middleton and Vanessa LambPART II: Mekong Country Cases5. Land Commodification, State Formation, and Agrarian Capitalism: The Political Economy of Land Governance in Cambodia / Jean-Christophe Diepart and Carl Middleton6. "Thirty Thousand Hectares Will Not Be a Proble": The Politics of Large-Scale Land Development in Laos / Michael B. Dwyer7. Legacies of Race, Ethnicity, and War: Contemporary Land Governance Reform in Myanmar / Kevin Woods8. Movement, Countermovement, and Regionalization of Capital: The Dynamics of Land Relations in Thailand / Philip Hirsch9. Land from the Tiller: The Politics of "Land Recovery" in Vietnam / Nga Dao and Marie MellacConclusion: A Regional Approach to Land Capitalization / Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, and Michael B. DwyerReferencesContributorsIndex

"Anyone familiar with this group of authors will not be surprised that Turning Land into Capital is incisive work, informed by a range of interdisciplinary perspectives and communicating the complexities of land politics with depth and clarity."