Agrarian angst and rural resistance in contemporary Southeast Asia / edited by Dominique Caouette and Sarah Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caouette, Dominique.

Turner, Sarah, 1970-

Series:

Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods ; 4.

Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--Political activity--Southeast Asia.

Peasants.

Peasants--Political activity.

Social conflict.

Southeast Asia.

Social conflict--Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xx, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

Agraian transformations, market integration and globalization processes are impacting upon rural Southeast Asia with increasingly complex and diverse consequences. In response, local inhabitants are devising a broad range of resistance measures that they feel will best protect or improve their livelihoods, ensure greater social justice and equity or allow them to just be left alone. This book develops a multi-scalar approach to examine such resistance occurring in relation to agrarian transformations in the Southeast Asian region.

The contributors take a fresh look at the diversity of sites of struggle and the combinations of resistance measures being utilized in contemporary Southeast Asia. They reveal that open public conflicts and debates are taking place between dominators and the oppressed, at the same time as covert critiques of power and everyday forms of resistance. The book shows how resistance measures are context contingent, shaped by different world views and shift according to local circumstances, the opening and closing of political opportunity structures and the historical peculiarities of resistance dynamics.

By providing new conceptual approaches and illustrative case studies that cut across scales and forms this book will be of interest to academics and students in comparative politics, sociology, human geography, environmental studies, cultural anthropology and Southeast Asian studies. It will help further debate and action among academics, activists and policymakes.

Contents:

1 Shifting fields of rural resistance in Southeast Asia / Sarah Turner, Dominique Caouette 1

2 Rural resistance and the art of domination / Dominique Caouette, Sarah Turner 25

3 'Weapons of the week': Selective resistance and agency among the Hmong in northern Vietnam / Sarah Turner, Jean Michaud 45

4 'Now the companies have come': Local values and contract farming in northern Thailand / Andrew Walker 61

5 Resisting local inequities: Community-based conservation on Palawan Island, the Philippines / Wolfram H. Dressler 82

6 Oil palm and resistance in West Kalimantan, Indonesia / Lesley Potter 105

7 Development and its discontents: The case of the Pak Mun Dam in northeastern Thailand / Erik Martinez Kuhonta 135

8 State-society relations and the diversity of peasant resistance in Vi t Nam / Tr n Thị Thu Trang 159

9 Indonesia's agrarian movement: Anti-capitalism at a crossroads / Vu Tuong 180

10 Paradigm shift: The 'September Thesis' and rebirth of the 'Open' peasant mass movement in the era of neoliberal globalization in the Philippines / Jennifer C. Franco, Saturnino M. Borras Jr 206

11 Is rice non-negotiable? Malaysian resistance to free trade with the United States / Sandra Smeltzer 227

12 Scaling up rural resistance globally / Dominique Caouette 246

13 The persistence of resistance: Analysing responses to agrarian change in Southeast Asia / Tim Forsyth 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415548380

0415548381

9780203874943

0203874943

OCLC:

299700300