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Turning land into capital : development and dispossession in the Mekong region / edited by Philip Hirsch [and four others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Culture, Place, and Nature Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Mekong River Valley.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture and state--Mekong River Valley.
- Agriculture and state.
- Anthropology.
- Economic development--Mekong River Valley.
- Economic development.
- Land reform--Economic aspects--Mekong River Valley.
- Land reform.
- Land use, Rural--Economic aspects--Mekong River Valley.
- Land use, Rural.
- Rural development--Mekong River Valley.
- Rural development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back "land-to-the-tiller" policies created in the wake of Cold War-era revolutions. This trend, marked by increased land concentration and the promotion of export-oriented agribusiness at the expense of smallholder farmers, exposes the convergence of capitalist relations and state agendas that expand territorial control within and across national borders. Through the lens of land capitalization, Turning Land into Capital examines the contradictions produced by superimposing twenty-first-century neoliberal projects onto diverse landscapes etched by decades of war and state socialism. Chapters in the book explore geopolitics, legacies of colonialism, ideologies of development, and strategies to achieve land justice in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The resulting picture reveals the place-specific interactions of state and market ideologies, regional geopolitics, and local elites in concentrating control over land"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Turning Land into Capital / Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah and Michael Dwyer
- Land and Capital across Borders : A Regional Geopolitics / Natalia Scurrah and Philip Hirsch
- Legacies in Land Governance : Colonialism, War and Socialism / Kevin Woods, Michael Dwyer and Jean-Christophe Diepart
- Agrarian Modernization and Counter-Land Reforms : Ideologies and Realities / Jean-Christophe Diepart and Christian Castellanet
- Grounding Land Justice : Contested Principles, Processes and Outcomes / Carl Middleton and Vanessa Lamb
- Land Commodification, State Formation, and Agrarian Capitalism : The Political Economy of Land Governance in Cambodia / Jean-Christophe Diepart and Carl Middleton
- "Thirty Thousand Hectares Will Not Be a Problem" : The Politics of Large-Scale Land Development in Laos / Michael Dwyer
- Legacies of Race, Ethnicity, and War : Contemporary Land Governance Reform in Myanmar / Kevin Woods
- Movement, Counter-Movement, and Regionalization of Capital : The Dynamics of Land Relations in Thailand / Philip Hirsch
- 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 Dwyer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (University of Washington Press, viewed April 29, 2023).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295750477
- 0295750472
- OCLC:
- 1298711904
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