ISBN:
9780415548380
,
9780203874943
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 289 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods
Parallel Title:
Print version Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia
DDC:
305.5/6330959
Keywords:
Peasants Political activity
;
Social conflict
Abstract:
This book examines contemporary forms of rural resistance to agrarian reforms in Southeast Asia, adopting a multi-scalar approach. focusing on Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations and acronyms; 1 Shifting fields of rural resistance in Southeast Asia; 2 Rural resistance and the art of domination; 3 'Weapons of the week': Selective resistance and agency among the Hmong in northern Vietnam; 4 'Now the companies have come': Local values and contract farming in northern Thailand; 5 Resisting local inequities: Community-based conservation on Palawan Island, the Philippines; 6 Oil palm and resistance in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Development and its discontents: The case of the Pak Mun Dam in northeastern Thailand8 State-society relations and the diversity of peasant resistance in Viet Nam; 9 Indonesia's agrarian movement: Anti-capitalism at a crossroads; 10 Paradigm shift: The 'September Thesis' and rebirth of the 'Open' peasant mass movement in the era of neoliberal globalization in the Philippines; 11 Is rice non-negotiable? Malaysian resistance to free trade with the United States; 12 Scaling up rural resistance globally; 13 The persistence of resistance: Analysing responses to agrarian change in Southeast Asia
Description / Table of Contents:
GlossaryIndex
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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