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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is an important palliative to the recent ontological turn in environmental anthropology. It throws into sharp relief issues of power, inequality, and the commodification of nature that go beyond the intimacies of human-nature entanglement. Crafting a more-than-human perspective grounded in the dynamics of land capitalization and justice allows for a more robust approach to scholarship in this academic subfield and region...Furthermore, the volume is an outcome of collaborative scholarship engaged deeply in local and regional work."
* H-Net Reviews *
"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."
* Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *
"A highly readable, insightful volume on land politics across the Mekong region today. Featuring detailed case studies, and grounded in a solid political ecological perspective, it is an essential read for scholars across the social sciences interested in the region. Additionally, it is extremely insightful for scholars who are thinking about land governance from multiple scales and comparatively across regions."
* Journal of Anthropological Research *
Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction / Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, and Michael B. Dwyer
List of Abbreviations
PART I: Mekong Regional Themes
1. Land and Capital across Borders: A Regional Geopolitics / Natalia Scurrah and Philip Hirsch
2. Legacies in Land Governance: Colonialism, War, and Socialism / Kevin Woods, Michael B. Dwyer, and Jean-Christophe Diepart
3. Agrarian Modernization and Counter Land Reforms: Ideologies and Realities / Jean-Christophe Diepart and Christian Castellanet
4. Grounding Land Justice: Contested Principles, Processes, and Outcomes / Carl Middleton and Vanessa Lamb
PART II: Mekong Country Cases
5. Land Commodification, State Formation, and Agrarian Capitalism: The Political Economy of Land Governance in Cambodia / Jean-Christophe Diepart and Carl Middleton
6. "Thirty Thousand Hectares Will Not Be a Proble": The Politics of Large-Scale Land Development in Laos / Michael B. Dwyer
7. Legacies of Race, Ethnicity, and War: Contemporary Land Governance Reform in Myanmar / Kevin Woods
8. Movement, Countermovement, and Regionalization of Capital: The Dynamics of Land Relations in Thailand / Philip Hirsch
9. Land from the Tiller: The Politics of "Land Recovery" in Vietnam / Nga Dao and Marie Mellac
Conclusion: A Regional Approach to Land Capitalization / Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, and Michael B. Dwyer
References
Contributors
Index
