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Book SynopsisRecent 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...
Trade ReviewWhat 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.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
