Upland Geopolitics : Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush / Michael B. Dwyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dwyer, Michael B., author.

Contributor:

Sivaramakrishnan, K., editor.

The TOME initiative and the generous support of Indiana University., Funder.

Series:

Culture, place, and nature : studies in anthropology and environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development--Laos.

Rural development.

Economic development--Laos.

Economic development.

Investments, Foreign--Laos.

Investments, Foreign.

Rubber industry and trade--Laos--Foreign ownership.

Rubber industry and trade.

Rubber plantations--Political aspects--Laos.

Rubber plantations.

Land tenure--Laos.

Land tenure.

Uplands--Economic aspects--Laos.

Uplands.

Land use, Rural--Government policy--Laos.

Land use, Rural.

China--Foreign economic relations--Laos.

China.

Laos--Foreign economic relations--China.

Laos.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

University of Washington Press 2022

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Dwyer Michael B. : Michael Dwyer is assistant professor of geography at Indiana University Bloomington. A political ecologist by training, he received his PhD in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012. This is his first book.Sivaramakrishnan K. : Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.Sivaramakrishnan K. : Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.Michael Dwyer is assistant professor of geography at Indiana University Bloomington.

Summary:

"In the twenty-first century, transnational land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Widely seen as a new global land grab, transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia highlights the link between the shifting geopolitics of economic development and problems of food security, climate change, and regional and international trade. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, Upland Geopolitics uses the case of Chinese agribusiness investment in northern Laos-one of China's first sustained forays into foreign land deals during the boom years of the early 2000s-to study the unbalanced geography of the new global land rush. Contemporary Laos serves as a stage on which the growing frustration with traditional Western assistance is leading to new forms of South-South development cooperation. Connecting the current rubber plantation boom to a longer trajectory of foreign intervention in the region, Upland Geopolitics reveals how legacies of Cold War conflict continue to pave the way for transnational enclosure in a socially uneven landscape"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Governing the Global Land Rush

Where the Rubber Meets the Road : Uneven Enclosure in Northwestern Laos

A Real Country? De-Nationalizing the Lao Uplands, 1955-1975

The Geography of Security : Population Management Work, 1975-2000

Micro-Geopolitics : Turning Battlefields into Marketplaces, 2000-2018

Paper Landscapes : State Formation and Spatial Legibility in Postwar Laos

Conclusion : The Politics of Spatial Transparency.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295750507

0295750502

OCLC:

1317750346