Revisiting rural places : pathways to poverty and prosperity in Southeast Asia / edited by Jonathan Rigg and Peter Vandergeest.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rigg, Jonathan, 1959-

Vandergeest, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development--Southeast Asia.

Rural development.

Rural poor.

Land reform.

Agriculture and state.

Southeast Asia.

Agriculture and state--Southeast Asia.

Land reform--Southeast Asia.

Rural poor--Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xxi, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2012.

Summary:

In Revisiting Rural Places, scholars of agrarian change return to sites of their previous research in Southeast Asia to examine how the brisk pace of change in the countryside is affecting the places, spaces and people that they originally studied, sometimes as long as four decades ago. Each of the 14 core chapters is organized around a change that the authors did not anticipate, based on broader trends. A new longhouse in Sarawak, the urban forests of Java, the assertion of an ethnic minority identity in Northern Thailand, the reshaping of class relations and identities in the Philippines, and the uncontested sell-off of farmland to cacao entrepreneurs in Sulawesi challenge conventional understandings of how the countryside is being reshaped, and to what effect.

The stories in this volume map out diverse pathways to poverty or prosperity. Families who seemed trapped in poverty decades ago were found to be prospering, having taken advantage of non-farm and educational opportunities. Others had unexpectedly been thrust into poverty, pushed aside by industrial agriculture, rural industrialization or brutal natural resource extraction.

Drawing on a number of disciplinary traditions and using field approaches honed over decades of research, the authors in this volume reassess traditional village studies, analyses of agrarian class formation, accounts of community forestry and fishing, and explanations of the implications of rural-urban migration for livelihoods and family relations. Its wide-ranging material makes this collection a unique and exceptionally rich account of rural change. The studies themselves and the conclusions drawn will interest academics, but they are also important for a broad span of institutions and other stakeholders, from the World Bank to rural activists. Book jacket.

Contents:

The restudy "problem" and agrarian change: revisiting rural places in Southeast Asia / Peter Vandergeest and Jonathan Rigg

A half century of agrarian transformations in Southeast Asia, 1960-2010 / Rodolphe De Koninck, Jonathan Rigg and Peter Vandergeest

Agrarian transitions in northern Thailand: from peri-urban to mountain margins, 1966-2006 / Michel Bruneau

A state-orchestrated agrarian transition on the Kedah Plain of peninsular Malaysia, 1972-2009 / Rodolphe De Koninck and Raiha Ahmat

Beyond the longhouse: Iban shifting cultivators come to town / R.A. Cramb

Moving lives in northeast Thailand: household mobility transformations and the village, 1982-2009 / Jonathan Rigg and Albert Salamanca

Nong Nae revisited: continuity and change in a post-frontier community / Philip Hirsch

Deagrarianization and re-agrarianization: multiple pathways of change on the Sathing Phra Peninsula / Peter Vandergeest

Urbanizing Java's political forest? Agrarian struggles and the re-territorialization of natures / Nancy Lee Peluso, Edi Suprapto and Agus Budi Purwanto

Masculinization of a Javanese farming community's household economy: Petungkriono, 1984-2009 / Pujo Semedi

Why so fast? Rapid class differentiation in upland Sulawesi / Tania Murray Li

Who are the farmers? Livelihood trajectories in a northern Thai village / Chusak Wittayapak

Class reproduction in a transitional agrarian setting: youth trajectories in a peri-urban Philippine village / Philip F. Kelly

Koh Sralao Village, Cambodia: living at the margins / Melissa Marschke

Land displacement and livelihood marginalization through "townification" in a northern Vietnamese village / Steffanie Scott

Negotiating agricultural intensification policies in northern upland Vietnam: "the new rice doesn't taste right" / Sarah Turner and Christine Bonnin.

Notes:

"First published in Asia by NUS Press, National University of Singapore."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780824836207

0824836200

OCLC:

742519161