Extracting development : contested resource frontiers in mainland Southeast Asia / edited by Oliver Tappe, Simon Rowedder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tappe, Oliver, editor.

Rowedder, Simon, editor.

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, associated with work.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mineral industries--Southeast Asia.

Mineral industries.

Mineral industries--Social aspects--Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 271 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Southeast Asian autocracies of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam have politicized vague definitions of 'fake news' to justify diverse tactics of digital repression. In these countries, what constitutes falseness in 'fake news' has hardly been clearly articulated.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

1. Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia: An Introduction by Simon Rowedder and Oliver Tappe

2. Ontological Politics of the Resource Frontier: A Hydrosocial Analysis of theMekong River in Northern Thailand by Thianchai Surimas and Carl Middleton

3. Reassembling Frontiers for Middle-Income Peasants:: Rubber Expansion and Livelihood Ecosystem Transformation in a Northeast Thai Village by Wataru Fujita

4. "Only the Best Fruits for China!": Local Productions of a "Fruit Frontier" in the Borderlands of China, Laos and Thailand by Simon Rowedder

5. Commodity Frontiers in Motion: Tracing the Maize Boom across the Lao-Vietnamese Borderlands by Robert Cole

6. New Frontier Spaces: Complex Entanglements and Power Relations (Re)shaping Land Governance in Laos by Diana Suhardiman and Jonas Kramp

7. Moving Away from the Margins? How a Chinese Hydropower Project Made a Lao Community Modern and Comfortable by Floramante S.J. Ponce

8. Frontier Capitalism in Colonial and Contemporary Laos: The Case of Tin Mining by Oliver Tappe

9. Chinese Investments and Resource Frontiers in Cambodia: Systemic Transformation by Vannarith Chheang

10. The Open Issues: Cases between Chinese Investment Companies and Local People in Myanmar by Su Yin Htun

11. Internationalization of RMB and Tin Ore Trade in China-Myanmar Frontier Governance: Views from Yunnan Province by Dominik Mierzejewski

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

At foot of title: ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 6, 2023).

ISBN:

9789815011463

9815011464

OCLC:

1350428365