Turning land into capital: development and dispossession in the Mekong region

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 Je...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hirsch, Philip 1957- (HerausgeberIn), Woods, Kevin (HerausgeberIn), Scurrah, Natalia (HerausgeberIn), Dwyer, Michael B. (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Seattle University of Washington Press 2022
Schriftenreihe:Culture, place, and nature. Studies in anthropology and environment
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Zusammenfassung: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.
"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."
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xxviii, 233 Seiten Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9780295750460
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